Episode One
Heraclitus: You can't step into the same river twice
Peter Adamson, Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King's College London and host of the History of Philosophy podcast , discusses the Presocratic philosopher Heraclitus and asks whether he really believed that all things are in flux like a river.
Episode two
Socrates: I only know that I know nothing
Peter Adamson, Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King's College London and host of the History of Philosophy podcast,discusses Socrates and his seemingly paradoxical claim to know only that he knows nothing.
Episode three
Plato: Learning is Recollection.
Peter Adamson, Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King's College London and host of the History of Philosophy podcast, discusses Plato's famous claim that when we seem to be learning, we are actually remembering knowledge from before we were born.
Episode four
Aristotle: The Golden Mean
Peter Adamson, Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King's College London and host of the History of Philosophy podcast , discusses Aristotle's idea that virtue is a mean between two extremes.
Episode Five
Epictetus: You Can Chain My Leg, But Not My Will.
Peter Adamson,Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King's College London and host of the History of Philosophy podcast, discusses the Stoic Epictetus and his ideas about free will.
Episode Six
Plotinus: The Ineffable One
Peter Adamson, Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King's College London and host of the History of Philosophy podcast, discusses the transcendent First Principle envisioned by Plotinus.
