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History of philosophy, “without any gaps.” (historyofphilosophy.net)
3 points by seesomesense on Oct 31, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Copleston's History of Philosophy is a good read, but without much coverage of anything non-Occidental:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_Philosophy_(Cople...


An excellent podcast series.

Another great one: https://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/


The series looks at the ideas, lives and historical context of the major philosophers as well as the lesser-known figures of the tradition.

Episodes 1 - 14: The Presocratics

1 - Everything is Full of Gods: Thales 2 - Infinity and Beyond: Anaximander and Anaximenes 3 - Created In Our Image: Xenophanes Against Greek Religion 4 - The Man With The Golden Thigh: Pythagoras 5 - Old Man River: Heraclitus 6 - MM McCabe on Heraclitus 7 - The Road Less Traveled: Parmenides 8 - You Can't Get There From Here: Zeno and Melissus 9 - The Final Cut: Democritus and Leucippus 10 - Mind Over Mixture: Anaxagoras 11 - All You Need is Love, and Five Other Things: Empedocles 12 - Malcolm Schofield on the Presocratics 13 - Good Humor Men: the Hippocratics 14 - Making the Weaker Argument the Stronger: the Sophists Episodes 15 - 33: Socrates and Plato

15 - Socrates without Plato: the Accounts of Aristophanes and Xenophon




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