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History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes list

Episodes

Total: 479

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 wron

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

Pythagoras and mathematics in ancient philosophy

The gods in Homer and Hesiod, and the critique of Xenophanes

Two early Pre-Socratics claim that the world is made of air, and the infinite

In this first episode, Peter discusses the goals of the series and Thales, the first Greek philosoph