Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHoP 016 - Method Man - Plato's Socrates
Socratic virtue, ignorance and irony in the Platonic dialogues Socrates' claim that no one does wrong willingly
15 years, 2 months ago
HoP 015 - Socrates without Plato - the Portrayals of Aristophanes and Xenophon
Socrates according to the comic poet Aristophanes and the historian Xenophon
15 years, 2 months ago
HoP 014 - Making the Weaker Argument the Stronger - the Sophists
Rhetoric and relativism in Protagoras, Gorgias and other sophists
15 years, 2 months ago
HoP 013 - Good Humor Men - the Hippocratics
Hippocrates and the relation between early Greek medicine and philosophy
15 years, 2 months ago
HoP 012 - Malcolm Schofield on the Presocratics
Malcolm Schofield on Heraclitus, Parmenides and other early Greek philosophers
15 years, 3 months ago
HoP 011 - All You Need Is Love, and Five Other Things - Empedocles
Love, Strife and the four elements in Empedocles
15 years, 3 months ago
HoP 010 - Mind Over Mixture - Anaxagoras
Is everything mixed with everything? Anaxagoras on Mind and the cosmos
15 years, 3 months ago
HoP 009 - The Final Cut - Democritus And Leuccipus
Ancient atomism as a response to Parmenides
15 years, 3 months ago
HoP 008 - You Can't Get There From Here - Zeno And Melissus
Zeno's paradoxes and Melissus develop the Eleatic philosophy
15 years, 4 months ago
HoP 007 - The Road Less Traveled - Parmenides
The father of metaphysics, Parmenides of Elea
15 years, 4 months ago