Catholic Philosophy

10 hrs. 12 min.

Language Russian

Author Bertrand Russell

Narrator Irina Yerisanova

“A History of Western Philosophy” is a large-scale work covering the history of philosophy from antiquity to the present day. The book’s deep content by Russell is presented in an easy, elegant form of philosophical sketches and essays.

The author devotes great attention not only to ideas, but also to the personalities of the philosophers he considers. In the unanimous opinion of specialists, this book is one of the most successful expositions of the history of philosophy.

Contents:

Introduction
Part 1. Church Fathers
Chapter 01. The religious development of the Jews
Chapter 02. Christianity in the first four centuries
Chapter 03. The three doctors of the Church
Chapter 04. the philosophy and theology of St. Augustine
Chapter 05. V and VI centuries
Chapter 06. St. Benedict and Gregory the Great
Part 2. Scholastics.
Chapter 07. The Papacy in the ages of darkness
Chapter 08. John Scot
Chapter 09. The Church reform of the XI century
Chapter 10. Muslim culture and philosophy
Chapter 11. XII century
Chapter 12. XIII century
Chapter 13. St. Thomas Aquinas
Chapter 14. Franciscan scholastics
Chapter 15. The decline of the papacy

1. The Pre-Socratics (narrated by Ilya Prudovsky) 2. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle (narrated by Ilya Prudovsky) 3. Ancient Philosophy After Aristotle (narrated by Ilya Prudovsky) 4. Catholic Philosophy 5. A History of Western Philosophy: From the Renaissance to Hume (narrated by Irina Yerisanova) 6. From Rousseau to the Present Day (narrated by Ilya Prudovsky)