12 - Malcolm Schofield on the Presocratics

Posted on 16 January 2011

Presocratic

World-leading expert Malcolm Schofield of Cambridge University speaks to Peter about the development of Presocratic philosophy, from the Milesians to Parmenides and the reactions he provoked.

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1. Thales	4. Pythagoras	7. Parmenides	10. Anaxagoras	13. Hippocrates
2. Anaximander, Anaximenes	5. Heraclitus	8. Zeno and Melissus	11. Empedocles	14. Sophists
3. Xenophanes	6. McCabe on Heraclitus	9. Atomism	12. Schofield on Presocratics

15. Socrates without Plato	19. Charmides, Euthydemus	23. McCabe on Plato	27. Plato's Parmenides	31. Plato's Erotic Dialogues
16. Plato's Socrates	20. Plato's Gorgias	24. Plato's Phaedo	28. Leigh on the Sophist	32. Sheffield on Platonic Love
17. Woolf on Socrates	21. Plato's Meno	25. Plato's Republic pt.1	29. Plato's Cratylus	33. Plato on Myth
18. Plato's Life and Works	22. Plato's Theaetetus	26. Plato's Republic pt.2	30. Plato's Timaeus

34. Aristotle's Life and Works	38. Aristotle on Substance	42. Aristotle on Soul	46. Scott on Aristotle	49. Rhetoric, Poetics
35. Aristotle's Logic	39. Aristotle's Four Causes	43. Aristotle's Biology	47. Aristotle on Mind and God	50. Aristotle on Plato
36. Aristotle's Epistemology	40. Aristotle's Physics	44. Aristotle's Ethics 1	48. Political Philosophy	51. Successors
37. Hugh Benson on Aristotle	41. Sorabji on Aristotle	45. Aristotle's Ethics 2

52. Hellenistic Schools	57. Epicurean Therapy	62. Stoic Physics	67. Marcus Aurelius	72. Woolf on Cicero
53. The Cynics	58. Lucretius	63. Stoic Ethics	68. Sellars on Roman Stoics	73. Sextus Empiricius
54. The Cyrenaics	59. Warren on Epicurus	64. Sedley on Stoicism	69. Pyrrho	74. Long on the Self
55. Epicurus' Principles	60. Stoic Logic	65. Seneca	70. New Academy	75. Ancient Medicine
56. Epicurean Ethics	61. Stoic Epistemology	66. Epictetus	71. Cicero	76. Hankinson on Galen

77. Intro to Late Antiquity	82. Aristotelianism	87. Plotinus Life and Works	92. Porphyry	97. The Last Pagans
78. Middle Platonism	83. Alexander of Aphrodisias	88. Plotinus on the One	93. Iamblichus	98. Philoponus
79. Philo of Alexandria	84. Rhetoric and Philosophy	89. Plotinus on the Soul	94. Proclus	99. Sorabji - the Commentators
80. Plutarch	85. Astronomy and Astrology	90. Plotinus on Matter & Evil	95. Sheppard on Aesthetics	100. Ancient Culture
81. Opsomer on Platonism	86. Cuomo on Mathematics	91. Wilberding on Plotinus	96. O'Meara on Neoplatonism

The Presocratics

Socrates and Plato

Aristotle

Hellenistic

Late Antiquity

Ancient Christianity

Formative Period

12 - Malcolm Schofield on the Presocratics