History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
Peter Adamson
Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps". www.historyofphilosophy.net
Episodes
Mentioned books
51 snips
Apr 11, 2011 • 25min
HoP 028 - Fiona Leigh on Plato's Sophist
Fiona Leigh discusses Plato's revised theory of Forms in the Sophist
68 snips
Apr 4, 2011 • 20min
HoP 027 - Second Thoughts - Plato's Parmenides and the Forms
The Third Man Argument and other criticisms of Forms in the Parmenides
84 snips
Mar 28, 2011 • 20min
HoP 026 - Ain't No Sunshine - The Cave Allegory of Plato's Republic
The Divided Line, Form of the Good, and Cave in Plato's Republic
89 snips
Mar 20, 2011 • 21min
HoP 025 - Soul and The City - Plato's Political Philosophy
Plato's Republic defends and defines justice at the level of the ideal city and the person
91 snips
Mar 14, 2011 • 20min
HoP 024 - Famous Last Words - Plato's Phaedo
Forms and the immortality of the soul in the Phaedo
34 snips
Mar 7, 2011 • 24min
HoP 023 - MM McCabe on Knowledge in Plato
MM McCabe discusses epistemology and virtue in Plato
46 snips
Feb 28, 2011 • 18min
HoP 022 - I Know Because The Caged Bird Sings - Plato's Theaetetus
Knowledge, relativism, and memory in the Theaetetus
60 snips
Feb 21, 2011 • 18min
HoP 021 - We Don't Need No Education - Plato's Meno
The Meno and Plato's theory of recollection
84 snips
Feb 14, 2011 • 19min
HoP 020 - Virtue Meets Its Match - Plato's Gorgias
Ethics against immoralism in a Socratic masterpiece.
39 snips
Feb 7, 2011 • 18min
HoP 019 - Know Thyself - Two Unloved Platonic Dialogues
Virtue and knowledge in Plato's Charmides and Euthydemus
