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A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Walter Terence Stace (1886 - 1967)

This book contains the substance, and for the most part the words, of a course of public lectures delivered during the first three months of 1919. The original division into lectures has been dropped, the matter being more conveniently redivided into chapters. - Summary by Walter Terence Stace

Genre(s): Ancient

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Preface	Jovile	00:12:52
Play 01	Chapter 1: The Idea of Philosophy in General	thorolfhammer	00:33:29
Play 02	Chapter 2: The Ionics \| Part 1: Thales	thorolfhammer	00:07:34
Play 03	Chapter 2: The Ionics \| Part 2: Anaximander	thorolfhammer	00:07:12
Play 04	Chapter 2: The Ionics \| Part 3: Anaximenes	thorolfhammer	00:04:55
Play 05	Chapter 2: The Ionics \| Part 4: Other Ionic Thinkers	Kerry Adams	00:01:50
Play 06	Chapter 3: The Pythagoreans	T. Eggan	00:18:10
Play 07	Chapter 4: The Eleatics \| Part 1: Xenophanes	T. Eggan	00:06:52
Play 08	Chapter 4: The Eleatics \| Part 2: Parmenides	T. Eggan	00:19:13
Play 09	Chapter 4: The Eleatics \| Part 3: Zeno	T. Eggan	00:17:00
Play 10	Chapter 4: The Eleatics \| Part 4: Critical Remarks on Eleaticism	T. Eggan	00:24:38
Play 11	Chapter 5: Heracleitus	T. Eggan	00:17:38
Play 12	Chapter 6: Empedocles	T. Eggan	00:09:38
Play 13	Chapter 7: The Atomists	T. Eggan	00:14:58
Play 14	Chapter 8: Anaxagoras	T. Eggan	00:24:19
Play 15	Chapter 9: The Sophists	T. Eggan	00:41:59
Play 16	Chapter 10: Socrates, part 1	benwiggins	00:20:29
Play 17	Chapter 10: Socrates, part 2	benwiggins	00:20:34
Play 18	Chapter 11: The Semi-Socratics \| Part 1: The Cynics	George Nissan	00:12:00
Play 19	Chapter 11: The Semi-Socratics \| Part 2: The Cyrenaics	George Nissan	00:05:02
Play 20	Chapter 11: The Semi-Socratics \| Part 3: The Megarics	Kerry Adams	00:03:31
Play 21	Chapter 12: Plato \| Part 1: Life and writings	inarvi	00:25:52
Play 22	Chapter 12: Plato \| Part 2: The theory of knowledge	inarvi	00:10:41
Play 23	Chapter 12: Plato \| Part 3: Dialectic, or the theory of Ideas, part 1	inarvi	00:21:57
Play 24	Chapter 12: Plato \| Part 3: Dialectic, or the theory of Ideas, part 2	inarvi	00:28:16
Play 25	Chapter 12: Plato \| Part 4: Physics, or the theory of existence	Kazbek	00:24:51
Play 26	Chapter 12: Plato \| Part 5: Ethics	Kazbek	00:26:40
Play 27	Chapter 12: Plato \| Part 6: Views upon art	benwiggins	00:06:49
Play 28	Chapter 12: Plato \| Part 7: Critical estimate of Plato's philosophy	benwiggins	00:23:00
Play 29	Chapter 13: Aristotle \| Part 1: Life, Writings, and general character of his work	Rachel Costello	00:08:55
Play 30	Chapter 13: Aristotle \| Part 2: Logic	Kerry Adams	00:04:19
Play 31	Chapter 13: Aristotle \| Part 3: Metaphysics, part 1	Rachel Costello	00:30:02
Play 32	Chapter 13: Aristotle \| Part 3: Metaphysics, part 2	Rachel Costello	00:31:20
Play 33	Chapter 13: Aristotle \| Part 4: Physics, or the philosophy of nature, part 1	Mathiew	00:22:12
Play 34	Chapter 13: Aristotle \| Part 4: Physics, or the philosophy of nature, part 2	Lucretia B.	00:38:08
Play 35	Chapter 13: Aristotle \| Part 5: Ethics	benwiggins	00:19:05
Play 36	Chapter 13: Aristotle \| Part 6: Aesthetics, or the theory of art	MoonLylith	00:14:29
Play 37	Chapter 13: Aristotle \| Part 7: Critical estimate of Aristotle's philosophy	KevinS	00:14:01
Play 38	Chapter 14: The General Character of Post-Aristotelian Philosophy	lauriecampbell	00:08:40
Play 39	Chapter 15: The Stoics \| Part 1: Logic	Kantolope	00:04:48
Play 40	Chapter 15: The Stoics \| Part 2: Physics	Kantolope	00:06:03
Play 41	Chapter 15: The Stoics \| Part 3: Ethics	Kantolope	00:11:32
Play 42	Chapter 16: The Epicureans \| Part 1: Physics	Ian S. Carr	00:06:46
Play 43	Chapter 16: The Epicureans \| Part 2: Ethics	Ian S. Carr	00:04:49
Play 44	Chapter 17: The Sceptics \| Part 1: Pyrrho	Kantolope	00:07:25
Play 45	Chapter 17: The Sceptics \| Part 2: The New Academy	Kantolope	00:03:56
Play 46	Chapter 17: The Sceptics \| Part 3: Later Scepticism	Kantolope	00:03:18
Play 47	Chapter 18: Transition to Neo-Platonism	Aaron Cohen	00:07:31
Play 48	Chapter 19: The Neo-Platonists	Aaron Cohen	00:11:00

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