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:
In the Rhetoric and Poetics, Aristotle explores persuasive speech and engages with ancient tragedy
Aristotle's Politics responds to Plato's Republic and sets out its own ideas about the ideal state, the types of political constitution, and the role of women and slaves
Aristotle on the intellect, both human and divine, in works ranging from On the Soul to the Metaphysics
Dominic Scott discusses Aristotle's method in his Nicomachean Ethics
What place does Aristotle leave for pleasure and friendship in his vision of the good life?
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics on happiness and virtue
In his zoology, Aristotle divides and defines all kinds of animals, and so invents the science of biology
Aristotle's theory of soul: its functions and how it relates to the body
Richard Sorabji discusses time, eternity and mosquitos in Aristotle's Physics
Aristotle's Physics explains change, time and place with the help of his actuality/potentiality distinction
The four types of explanation: formal, material, efficient and final cause
Aristotle's critique of Platonic Forms and defense of his own metaphysics
Hugh Benson discusses Aristotle's ideas about arriving at knowledge
Knowledge according to Aristotle's Posterior Analytics
Aristotle's invention of logic in the Organon (especially Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics)
