Peter Adamson on the whole history of philosophy; only the ancient Greek run is indexed
98 episodes indexed · 37 hours
Presented by Peter Adamson
Periods · The Bronze Age, Archaic Greece, The Persian Wars, Classical Greece, Philip and Alexander, The Hellenistic world, Greece under Rome
Themes · Philosophy Religion
Peter Adamson takes listeners through the history of philosophy without any gaps; only the ancient Greek run is here, 96 of 507 episodes, 1 era, 36 hours.
Where to start. Start at 'HoP 001 - Everything is Full of Gods - Thales' (2010); the 96 Greek episodes run in order.
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Dark Age and Archaic Greece 1100 - 480 BC · 1
Greek Life, Thought and the Wider World across the centuries · 97
With Michael Trapp, Caroline Humfress
With M.M. McCabe, Raphael Woolf
With Dominic Scott
With Dominic O'Meara
With James Warren
With John Sellars
John Sellars joins Peter Adamson in this interview to discuss the Roman Stoics and their art of living.
With Tony Long
Tony Long, a leading Hellenistic philosophy scholar, talks with Peter Adamson about the self, ethics and politics in the Stoics, Epicureans and Skeptics.
With R.J. Hankinson
Jim Hankinson joins Peter Adamson in this interview to discuss the life, work and philosophical contributions of Galen.
With Serafina Cuomo
Serafina Cuomo joins Peter Adamson to discuss how the mathematics of figures like Euclid and Archimides related to ancient philosophy.
With Richard Sorabji
With Raphael Woolf
With David Sedley
With Hugh Benson
With Fiona Leigh
With Frisbee Sheffield
With Jan Opsomer
Jan Opsomer helps Peter Adamson understand principles, Plato interpretation, and Plutarch in this wide-ranging discussion of Middle Platonism.
With M.M. McCabe
The early Stoics, Zeno, Cleanthes and Chrysippus, and their innovations in logic are introduced in this episode, titled Walking on Eggshells.
Themistius, Quintilian, Lucian and other authors are drawn on in this episode about the connections between rhetoric and late ancient philosophy.
With James Wilberding
James Wilberding joins Peter Adamson to examine what Plotinus and Porphyry contributed to the philosophy of nature.
With Anne Sheppard
With Malcolm Schofield
The Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans and Cynics, the schools of the Hellenistic age, are introduced in this episode, titled Fighting Over Socrates.
Epicurus sets out an empiricist theory of knowledge and an atomist physics, in support of hedonism, across this episode.
Peter Adamson begins to examine ancient Skepticism in this episode, starting with Pyrrho's life and doctrines, or the lack thereof.
Peter Adamson looks at the history of Aristotelianism up to the time of the Roman Empire and the beginning of commentaries on Aristotle's works.
John Philoponus refutes the arguments of Aristotle and Proclus for the eternity of the universe, and develops new ideas in physics, in this episode.
In this first episode, Peter Adamson explains the goals of the whole series and introduces Thales, the first Greek philosopher, as its starting point.
Diogenes and the other Cynics deface the currency, as this episode puts it, by exposing the hypocrisy of Greek society.
Pleasure is the good, according to Epicurus; this episode on Epicurean ethics asks how best to live most pleasantly.
The Epicureans reassure their followers against the terrors of death and punishment by the gods, the subject of this episode.
Epictetus, called here the greatest of the Roman Stoics, tells listeners how to set themselves free in this episode.
Plotinus posits an absolutely transcendent first principle, the One, in this episode, which asks what it is and how it relates to Intellect.
Aristotle's invention of logic in the Organon, especially the Categories, On Interpretation and Prior Analytics, is the subject of this episode.
Drawing on the De Anima, On the Heavens, the Physics and the Metaphysics, Peter Adamson tackles Aristotle's theory of mind and its relation to his theology.
Peter Adamson introduces Plotinus, called here the greatest philosopher of late antiquity and the founder of Neoplatonism, in this episode.
The two early Pre-Socratics of the title, Anaximander and Anaximenes, claim that the world is made of air, and the infinite, in this episode.
Socratic virtue, ignorance and irony in the Platonic dialogues are examined here, including Socrates' claim that no one does wrong willingly.