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:
Virtue and knowledge in Plato's Charmides and Euthydemus
The life, times and dialogues of Plato
Raphael Woolf discusses Socrates as presented by Plato
Socratic virtue, ignorance and irony in the Platonic dialogues Socrates' claim that no one does wrong willingly
Socrates according to the comic poet Aristophanes and the historian Xenophon
Rhetoric and relativism in Protagoras, Gorgias and other sophists
Hippocrates and the relation between early Greek medicine and philosophy
Malcolm Schofield on Heraclitus, Parmenides and other early Greek philosophers
Love, Strife and the four elements in Empedocles
Is everything mixed with everything? Anaxagoras on Mind and the cosmos
Ancient atomism as a response to Parmenides
Zeno's paradoxes and Melissus develop the Eleatic philosophy
The father of metaphysics, Parmenides of Elea
MM McCabe of King's discusses the fragments of Heraclitus
Everything changes in the riddling philosophy of Heraclitus
