History of Philosophy
Summary: Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU Munich, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, without any gaps. A multi-volume book version is appearing with Oxford University Press; already available is "Classical Philosophy."
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Podcasts:
Aristotle's career, corpus and unparalleled influence
Plato's attack on the poets and his own use of myth in the Republic and other dialogues
Frisbee Sheffield discusses Plato's erotic dialogues, including the Symposium
Love, friendship and philosophy in the Symposium, Phaedrus and Lysis
A divine craftsman makes the cosmos from triangles in Plato's Timaeus
Philosophy of language and Heraclitean flux in Plato's Cratylus
Fiona Leigh discusses Plato's revised theory of Forms in the Sophist
The Third Man Argument and other criticisms of Forms in the Parmenides
The Divided Line, Form of the Good, and Cave in Plato's Republic
Plato's Republic defends and defines justice at the level of the ideal city and the person
Forms and the immortality of the soul in the Phaedo
MM McCabe discusses epistemology and virtue in Plato
Knowledge, relativism, and memory in the Theaetetus
The Meno and Plato's theory of recollection
Ethics against immoralism in a Socratic masterpiece.
