An easy way to type some greek for your philosophy thesis in latex is to use betababel.sty. I found the tip here. For all people who got a headache with hyphenation of german text with babel: the solution for me was to use
\usepackage[ngerman,english]{metababel}
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fhermeschris.edublogs.org%2F2006%2F07%2F25%2Flatex-and-greek%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Latex+and+Greek’;
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