Bertrand Russell: A History of Western Philosophy (unabridged)
read by Jonathan Keeble
- Release Date: 1st Oct 2013
- Catalogue No: NA0136
- Label: Naxos AudioBooks
- Series: Non-Fiction
- Length: 38 hours 1 minute
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Bertrand Russell: A History of Western Philosophy (Unabridged)
Preface
Introduction
The barbarian invasion…
The Catholic Church was derived…
Book I, Part I, Chapter I: The Rise of Greek Civilization
The Cretans worshipped a goddess…
The Homeric poems…
There was, however, in ancient Greece…
The well-spring of which the soul…
Chapter II: The Milesian School
Chapter III: Pythagoras
It is interesting to observe…
Chapter IV: Heraclitus
From what survives of his writings…
The metaphysics of Heraclitus…
Chapter V: Parmenides
The doctrine of Parmenides…
Chapter VI: Empedocles
Chapter VII: Athens in Relation to Culture
Chapter VIII: Anaxagoras
Chapter IX: The Atomists
In regard to both questions alike…
The modern physicist…
Chapter X: Protagoras
To some extent…
Part II, Chapter XI: Socrates
The oracle of Delphi…
The Apology gives a clear picture…
Chapter XII: The Influence of Sparta
Sparta aroused among the other Greeks…
The myth of Sparta…
Chapter XIII: The Sources of Plato's Opinions
Chapter XIV: Plato's Utopia
We now come to the intellectual aspect of the religion…
Since no one knows who his parents are…
A Utopia, if seriously intended…
Chapter XV: The Theory of Ideas
In the last book of The Republic…
This leads up to the famous simile…
I do not think that Plato's logical objections…
Chapter XVI: Plato's Theory of Immortality
This, however, is a digression…
The contention that all knowledge…
Chapter XVII: Plato's Cosmogony
This leads to a somewhat curious theory…
Chapter XVIII: Knowledge and Perception in Plato
We now reach Plato's final argument…
The complete answer as regards propositions…
Chapter XIX: Aristotle's Metaphysics
The true ground of the distinction…
Aristotle's theology is interesting…
Chapter XX: Aristotle's Ethics
Whatever may be thought of the magnanimous man…
Aristotle again shows his good sense…
Chapter XXI: Aristotle's Politics
Plato's Utopia is criticised by Aristotle…
This leads to the question…
Chapter XXII: Aristotle's Logic
3. Overestimation of deduction.
Chapter XXIII: Aristotle's Physics
Chapter XXIV: Early Greek Mathematics and Astronomy
Pythagoras, in all probability.…
Part III, Chapter XXV: The Hellenistic World
In the second century B.C…
There was widespread social discontent…
Chapter XXVI: Cynics and Sceptics
It is interesting to observe…
In the middle of this sceptical period…
Chapter XXVII: The Epicureans
Epicurus disagrees with some of his hedonist…
Epicurus has no interest…
The age of Epicurus was a weary age…
Chapter XXVIII: Stoicism
To a modern mind, it's difficult to feel enthusaistic…
Posidonius (ca. 135 – ca. 51 B.C.) was a Syrian Greek…
Undoubtedly the age of the Antonines…
The contradiction between free will and determinism…
Chapter XXIX: The Roman Empire in Relation to Culture
This result was averted by two energetic men.
The Hellenizing of Rome…
3. The unification of government and culture.
Chapter XXX: Plotinus
The respect of Plotinus for Plato is very great.
His objections to gnosticism are of two sorts.
'To ask why the soul has created the Kosmos…'
Book II: Catholic Philosophy Introduction
The thirteenth-century synthesis…
Part I, Chapter I: The Religious Development of the Jews
Ezekiel is equally shocked…
The history of this period is told…
There are, however, important exceptions…
Chapter II: Christianity During the First Four Centuries
Origen's longest work is a book entitled…
Miracles certainly played a very large part…
Chapter III: Three Doctors of the Church
The bishop was, at first…
St. Jerome was a man of many quarrels.
Of St. Augustine I shall speak, in this chapter…
The time came when he and his mother…
Chapter IV: St. Augustines Philosophy and Theology
Next comes the question of pious virgins…
Ever since the Fall…
Chapter V: The Fifth and Sixth Centuries
One does not find a similar outlook…
Chapter VI: St. Benedict and Gregory the Great
Like other hermits, Benedict suffered…
Gregory's letters are extraordinarily interesting…
Part II, Chapter VII: The Papacy in the Dark Age
The foundation of the Holy Roman Empire…
The business of the Patriarch Ignatius…
Chapter VIII: John the Scot
John's next work was a translation from the Greek…
Chapter IX: Ecclesiastical Reform in the Eleventh Century
During the eleventh century various other orders…
In Gregory's time began the great dispute…
Chapter X: Mohammedan Culture and Philosophy
The Nestorians, through whom, at first…
Chapter XI: The Twelfth Century
We must not be deceived by this literary archaism.
The Crusades
Abelard's most famous book…
Chapter XII: The Thirteenth Century
During the few years of peace…
The only other popular heresy…
Chapter XIII: St. Thomas Aquinas
To return to the Summa contra Gentiles…
The Third Book is largely concerned…
Chapter XIV: Franciscan Schoolmen
Duns Scotus (ca. 1270–13-8)…
Occam's political works are written…
Chapter XV: The Eclipse of the Papacy
Boniface the VIII was an Italian…
The Council of Constance had healed the schism…
Book III, Part I, Chapter I: General Characteristics
Chapter II: The Italian Renaissance
The southern extremity of Italy…
Chapter III: Machiavelli
The Prince is very explicit in repudiating…
Chapter IV: Erasmus and More
Erasmus, on his second visit to England…
Everybody - men and women alike…
Chapter V: The Reformation and Counter-Reformation
Chapter VI: The Rise of Science
Copernicus was not in a position…
Galileo also studied projectiles…
In the remainder of this chapter…
Chapter VII: Francis Bacon
Chapter VIII: Hobbes's Leviathan
We will now consider the doctrines of the Leviathan…
Throughout the Leviathan, Hobbes never considers…
Chapter IX: Descartes
This part of his theory was abandoned…
Having now secured a firm foundation…
Chapter X: Spinoza
I come now to Spinoza's theory of the emotions.
'Love towards God' we are told…
Chapter XI: Leibnitz
In contrasting himself with Spinoza…
The argument from the pre-established harmony…
Leibnitz based his philosophy…
Chapter XII: Philosophical Liberalism
A new movement. which has gradually developed…
Chapter XIII: Locke's Theory of Knowledge
What Locke means by 'reason'…
Chapter VI of Book III…
Locke's ethical doctrines are interesting…
Chapter XIV: Locke's Political Philosophy
B. The State of Nature
C. The Social Contract
The question of taxation…
D. Property
E. Checks and Balances
Chapter XV: Locke's Influence
The difference in method is connected…
Chapter XVI: Berkeley
Let us now make a critical analysis…
But we must now ask ourselves what we mean…
Chapter XVII: Hume
There is a section (Book I, part i, section vii)…
In the Cartesian Philosophy…
I do not wish, at the moment, to discuss induction…
The ultimate outcome of Hume's investigation…
Part II, Chapter XVIII: The Romantic Movement
The beginnings of Romanticism in England…
Chapter XIX: Rousseau
We come now to the most fruitful period…
Apart from the fictitious character…
Rousseau has not that profound respect…
Chapter XX: Kant A. German Idealism in General
B. Outline of Kant's Philosophy
A large part of The Critique of Pure Reason…
C. Kant's Theory of Space and Time
The second metaphysical argument maintains…
Chapter XXI: Currents of Thought in the Nineteenth Century
Condorcet (1743–94) has opinions…
Darwin himself was a liberal…
Chapter XXII: Hegel
Knowledge as a whole has its triadic movement.
German history is divided by Hegel…
Such is Hegel's doctrine of the State…
Chapter XXIII: Byron
It is obvious that an aristocrat does not become…
Chapter XXIV: Schopenhauer
All this is very sad…
Chapter XXV: Nietzsche
Two applications of his ethic deserve notice…
It remains to consider the main ethical problem…
Chapter XXVI: The Utilitarians
It was through the influence of James Mill…
Chapter XXVIII: Karl Marx
On the other hand, when we come to the detail…
Chapter XXVII: Bergson
'The intellect', Bergson says…
We must now return to the subject of instinct…
I shall begin with the theory of space…
Apart from the question of number…
Chapter XXIX: William James
The ethic that would result…
Chapter XXX: John Dewey
Let us now try to find the supplement…
Chapter XXXI: The Philosophy of Logical Analysis
From all this it seems to follow…
