RUSSELL, B.: History of Western Philosophy (A) (Unabridged)

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Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970, Author.

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Contents:

Preface ( 04 min., 48 sec. )

Introduction ( 10 min., 34 sec. )

The barbarian invasion... ( 10 min., 50 sec. )

The Catholic Church was derived... ( 09 min., 57 sec. )

Book I, Part I, Chapter I: The Rise of Greek Civilization ( 10 min., 26 sec. )

The Cretans worshipped a goddess... ( 10 min., 10 sec. )

The Homeric poems... ( 09 min., 49 sec. )

There was, however, in ancient Greece... ( 12 min., 49 sec. )

The well-spring of which the soul... ( 12 min., 55 sec. )

Chapter II: The Milesian School ( 13 min., 25 sec. )

Chapter III: Pythagoras ( 11 min., 48 sec. )

It is interesting to observe... ( 11 min., 55 sec. )

Chapter IV: Heraclitus ( 08 min., 51 sec. )

From what survives of his writings... ( 09 min. )

The metaphysics of Heraclitus... ( 09 min., 29 sec. )

Chapter V: Parmenides ( 01 min., 39 sec. )

The doctrine of Parmenides... ( 11 min., 40 sec. )

Chapter VI: Empedocles ( 13 min., 49 sec. )

Chapter VII: Athens in Relation to Culture ( 09 min., 12 sec. )

Chapter VIII: Anaxagoras ( 06 min., 19 sec. )

Chapter IX: The Atomists ( 08 min., 42 sec. )

In regard to both questions alike... ( 08 min., 31 sec. )

The modern physicist... ( 08 min., 18 sec. )

Chapter X: Protagoras ( 12 min., 29 sec. )

To some extent... ( 08 min., 16 sec. )

Part II, Chapter XI: Socrates ( 10 min., 30 sec. )

The oracle of Delphi... ( 09 min., 51 sec. )

The Apology gives a clear picture... ( 11 min., 48 sec. )

Chapter XII: The Influence of Sparta ( 09 min., 16 sec. )

Sparta aroused among the other Greeks... ( 07 min., 57 sec. )

The myth of Sparta... ( 10 min., 18 sec. )

Chapter XIII: The Sources of Plato's Opinions ( 08 min., 57 sec. )

Chapter XIV: Plato's Utopia ( 01 min., 16 sec. )

We now come to the intellectual aspect of the religion... ( 10 min., 21 sec. )

Since no one knows who his parents are... ( 09 min., 39 sec. )

A Utopia, if seriously intended... ( 09 min., 52 sec. )

Chapter XV: The Theory of Ideas ( 07 min., 42 sec. )

In the last book of The Republic... ( 10 min., 06 sec. )

This leads up to the famous simile... ( 09 min., 49 sec. )

I do not think that Plato's logical objections... ( 09 min., 56 sec. )

Chapter XVI: Plato's Theory of Immortality ( 10 min., 35 sec. )

This, however, is a digression... ( 09 min., 37 sec. )

The contention that all knowledge... ( 10 min., 28 sec. )

Chapter XVII: Plato's Cosmogony ( 08 min., 43 sec. )

This leads to a somewhat curious theory... ( 07 min., 43 sec. )

Chapter XVIII: Knowledge and Perception in Plato ( 08 min., 58 sec. )

We now reach Plato's final argument... ( 10 min., 18 sec. )

The complete answer as regards propositions... ( 09 min. )

Chapter XIX: Aristotle's Metaphysics ( 12 min., 58 sec. )

The true ground of the distinction... ( 10 min., 19 sec. )

Aristotle's theology is interesting... ( 14 min., 02 sec. )

Chapter XX: Aristotle's Ethics ( 10 min., 55 sec. )

Whatever may be thought of the magnanimous man... ( 10 min., 35 sec. )

Aristotle again shows his good sense... ( 11 min., 15 sec. )

Chapter XXI: Aristotle's Politics ( 10 min., 05 sec. )

Plato's Utopia is criticised by Aristotle... ( 12 min., 19 sec. )

This leads to the question... ( 07 min., 20 sec. )

Chapter XXII: Aristotle's Logic ( 11 min., 10 sec. )

3. Overestimation of deduction. ( 09 min., 55 sec. )

Chapter XXIII: Aristotle's Physics ( 13 min., 58 sec. )

Chapter XXIV: Early Greek Mathematics and Astronomy ( 13 min., 06 sec. )

Pythagoras, in all probability.... ( 12 min., 21 sec. )

Part III, Chapter XXV: The Hellenistic World ( 11 min., 24 sec. )

In the second century B.C... ( 08 min., 45 sec. )

There was widespread social discontent... ( 09 min. )

Chapter XXVI: Cynics and Sceptics ( 10 min., 29 sec. )

It is interesting to observe... ( 09 min., 53 sec. )

In the middle of this sceptical period... ( 10 min., 42 sec. )

Chapter XXVII: The Epicureans ( 10 min., 35 sec. )

Epicurus disagrees with some of his hedonist... ( 10 min., 15 sec. )

Epicurus has no interest... ( 08 min., 55 sec. )

The age of Epicurus was a weary age... ( 02 min., 13 sec. )

Chapter XXVIII: Stoicism ( 09 min., 55 sec. )

To a modern mind, it's difficult to feel enthusaistic... ( 09 min., 26 sec. )

Posidonius (ca. 135 - circa 51 B.C.) was a Syrian Greek... ( 11 min., 11 sec. )

Undoubtedly the age of the Antonines... ( 12 min., 02 sec. )

The contradiction between free will and determinism... ( 10 min., 59 sec. )

Chapter XXIX: The Roman Empire in Relation to Culture ( 11 min., 32 sec. )

This result was averted by two energetic men. ( 11 min., 02 sec. )

The Hellenizing of Rome... ( 08 min., 22 sec. )

3. The unification of government and culture. ( 07 min., 08 sec. )

Chapter XXX: Plotinus ( 10 min., 12 sec. )

The respect of Plotinus for Plato is very great. ( 10 min., 15 sec. )

His objections to gnosticism are of two sorts. ( 08 min., 29 sec. )

'To ask why the soul has created the Kosmos...' ( 09 min., 27 sec. )

Book II: Catholic Philosophy Introduction ( 07 min., 42 sec. )

The thirteenth-century synthesis... ( 08 min., 51 sec. )

Part I, Chapter I: The Religious Development of the Jews ( 08 min., 41 sec. )

Ezekiel is equally shocked... ( 10 min., 17 sec. )

The history of this period is told... ( 12 min., 32 sec. )

There are, however, important exceptions... ( 10 min., 41 sec. )

Chapter II: Christianity During the First Four Centuries ( 09 min., 46 sec. )

Origen's longest work is a book entitled... ( 08 min., 42 sec. )

Miracles certainly played a very large part... ( 08 min., 37 sec. )

Chapter III: Three Doctors of the Church ( 09 min., 29 sec. )

The bishop was, at first... ( 09 min., 16 sec. )

St. Jerome was a man of many quarrels. ( 08 min., 08 sec. )

Of St. Augustine I shall speak, in this chapter... ( 09 min., 46 sec. )

The time came when he and his mother... ( 09 min., 49 sec. )

Chapter IV: St. Augustines Philosophy and Theology ( 10 min., 41 sec. )

Next comes the question of pious virgins... ( 10 min., 50 sec. )

Ever since the Fall... ( 15 min., 10 sec. )

Chapter V: The Fifth and Sixth Centuries ( 13 min., 41 sec. )

One does not find a similar outlook... ( 09 min. )

Chapter VI: St. Benedict and Gregory the Great ( 10 min., 37 sec. )

Like other hermits, Benedict suffered... ( 10 min., 17 sec. )

Gregory's letters are extraordinarily interesting... ( 13 min., 03 sec. )

Part II, Chapter VII: The Papacy in the Dark Age ( 12 min., 13 sec. )

The foundation of the Holy Roman Empire... ( 10 min., 30 sec. )

The business of the Patriarch Ignatius... ( 12 min., 23 sec. )

Chapter VIII: John the Scot ( 08 min., 14 sec. )

John's next work was a translation from the Greek... ( 09 min., 44 sec. )

Chapter IX: Ecclesiastical Reform in the Eleventh Century ( 11 min., 02 sec. )

During the eleventh century various other orders... ( 11 min., 02 sec. )

In Gregory's time began the great dispute... ( 11 min., 14 sec. )

Chapter X: Mohammedan Culture and Philosophy ( 12 min., 21 sec. )

The Nestorians, through whom, at first... ( 13 min., 23 sec. )

Chapter XI: The Twelfth Century ( 02 min., 28 sec. )

We must not be deceived by this literary archaism. ( 11 min., 40 sec. )

The Crusades ( 08 min., 45 sec. )

Abelard's most famous book... ( 10 min., 19 sec. )

Chapter XII: The Thirteenth Century ( 09 min., 59 sec. )

During the few years of peace... ( 09 min., 01 sec. )

The only other popular heresy... ( 10 min., 07 sec. )

Chapter XIII: St. Thomas Aquinas ( 09 min., 59 sec. )

To return to the Summa contra Gentiles... ( 09 min., 03 sec. )

The Third Book is largely concerned... ( 12 min., 51 sec. )

Chapter XIV: Franciscan Schoolmen ( 08 min., 44 sec. )

Duns Scotus (ca. 1270-13-8)... ( 12 min., 42 sec. )

Occam's political works are written... ( 12 min., 58 sec. )

Chapter XV: The Eclipse of the Papacy ( 09 min., 55 sec. )

Boniface the VIII was an Italian... ( 10 min., 39 sec. )

The Council of Constance had healed the schism... ( 09 min., 40 sec. )

Book III, Part I, Chapter I: General Characteristics ( 11 min., 11 sec. )

Chapter II: The Italian Renaissance ( 11 min., 50 sec. )

The southern extremity of Italy... ( 12 min., 04 sec. )

Chapter III: Machiavelli ( 10 minutes, 32 sec.

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The Prince is very explicit in repudiating... ( 11 min., 41 sec. )

Chapter IV: Erasmus and More ( 11 min., 33 sec. )

Erasmus, on his second visit to England... ( 10 minutes, 39 sec.

Everybody - men and women alike... ( 07 min., 36 sec. )

Chapter V: The Reformation and Counter-Reformation ( 07 min., 16 sec. )

Chapter VI: The Rise of Science ( 10 min., 42 sec. )

Copernicus was not in a position... ( 10 min., 42 sec. )

Galileo also studied projectiles... ( 11 min., 49 sec. )

In the remainder of this chapter... ( 10 min., 47 sec. )

Chapter VII: Francis Bacon ( 12 min., 58 sec. )

Chapter VIII: Hobbes's Leviathan ( 07 min., 15 sec. )

We will now consider the doctrines of the Leviathan... ( 11 min., 35 sec. )

Throughout the Leviathan, Hobbes never considers... ( 14 min., 32 sec. )

Chapter IX: Descartes ( 10 min., 37 sec. )

This part of his theory was abandoned... ( 10 min. )

Having now secured a firm foundation... ( 11 min., 32 sec. )

Chapter X: Spinoza ( 10 min., 09 sec. )

I come now to Spinoza's theory of the emotions. ( 09 min., 40 sec. )

'Love towards God' we are told... ( 15 min., 02 sec. )

Chapter XI: Leibnitz ( 10 min., 42 sec. )

In contrasting himself with Spinoza... ( 10 min., 56 sec. )

The argument from the pre-established harmony... ( 10 min., 13 sec. )

Leibnitz based his philosophy... ( 11 min., 36 sec. )

Chapter XII: Philosophical Liberalism ( 10 min., 37 sec. )

A new movement. which has gradually developed... ( 10 min., 26 sec. )

Chapter XIII: Locke's Theory of Knowledge ( 10 min., 40 sec. )

What Locke means by 'reason'... ( 09 min., 17 sec. )

Chapter VI of Book III... ( 07 min. )

Locke's ethical doctrines are interesting... ( 10 min., 47 sec. )

Chapter XIV: Locke's Political Philosophy ( 15 min., 44 sec. )

B. The State of Nature ( 16 min., 19 sec. )

C. The Social Contract ( 08 min., 32 sec. )

The question of taxation... ( 03 min., 32 sec. )

D. Property ( 09 min., 35 sec. )

E. Checks and Balances ( 09 min., 24 sec. )

Chapter XV: Locke's Influence ( 08 min., 29 sec. )

The difference in method is connected... ( 08 min., 55 sec. )

Chapter XVI: Berkeley ( 10 min., 27 sec. )

Let us now make a critical analysis... ( 10 min., 32 sec. )

But we must now ask ourselves what we mean... ( 12 min., 19 sec. )

Chapter XVII: Hume ( 05 min., 21 sec. )

There is a section (Book I, part i, section vii)... ( 09 min., 56 sec. )

In the Cartesian Philosophy... ( 09 min., 44 sec. )

I do not wish, at the moment, to discuss induction... ( 08 min., 18 sec. )

The ultimate outcome of Hume's investigation... ( 10 min., 15 sec. )

Part II, Chapter XVIII: The Romantic Movement ( 11 min., 45 sec. )

The beginnings of Romanticism in England... ( 13 min., 44 sec. )

Chapter XIX: Rousseau ( 15 min., 47 sec. )

We come now to the most fruitful period... ( 10 min., 12 sec. )

Apart from the fictitious character... ( 10 min., 13 sec. )

Rousseau has not that profound respect... ( 09 min., 34 sec. )

Chapter XX: Kant A. German Idealism in General ( 07 min., 54 sec. )

B. Outline of Kant's Philosophy ( 11 min., 52 sec. )

A large part of The Critique of Pure Reason... ( 11 min., 05 sec. )

C. Kant's Theory of Space and Time ( 08 min., 35 sec. )

The second metaphysical argument maintains... ( 09 min., 19 sec. )

Chapter XXI: Currents of Thought in the Nineteenth Century ( 10 min. )

Condorcet (1743-94) has opinions... ( 10 min., 09 sec. )

Darwin himself was a liberal... ( 09 min., 27 sec. )

Chapter XXII: Hegel ( 10 min., 53 sec. )

Knowledge as a whole has its triadic movement. ( 11 min., 13 sec. )

German history is divided by Hegel... ( 11 min., 51 sec. )

Such is Hegel's doctrine of the State... ( 11 min., 53 sec. )

Chapter XXIII: Byron ( 04 min., 02 sec. )

It is obvious that an aristocrat does not become... ( 14 min., 02 sec. )

Chapter XXIV: Schopenhauer ( 09 min., 01 sec. )

All this is very sad... ( 09 min., 28 sec. )

Chapter XXV: Nietzsche ( 11 min., 20 sec. )

Two applications of his ethic deserve notice... ( 12 min., 47 sec. )

It remains to consider the main ethical problem... ( 13 min., 01 sec. )

Chapter XXVI: The Utilitarians ( 08 min., 43 sec. )

It was through the influence of James Mill... ( 15 min., 37 sec. )

Chapter XXVIII: Karl Marx ( 12 min., 27 sec. )

On the other hand, when we come to the detail... ( 11 min., 44 sec. )

Chapter XXVII: Bergson ( 10 min., 22 sec. )

'The intellect', Bergson says... ( 09 min., 30 sec. )

We must now return to the subject of instinct... ( 09 min., 16 sec. )

I shall begin with the theory of space... ( 09 min., 19 sec. )

Apart from the question of number... ( 07 min., 03 sec. )

Chapter XXIX: William James ( 10 min., 38 sec. )

The ethic that would result... ( 11 min., 41 sec. )

Chapter XXX: John Dewey ( 14 min., 15 sec. )

Let us now try to find the supplement... ( 12 min., 08 sec. )

Chapter XXXI: The Philosophy of Logical Analysis ( 11 min., 27 sec. )

From all this it seems to follow... ( 10 minutes, 36 sec. )

Participant:

Keeble, Jonathan, Reader -- Russell, Bertrand, Author

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