History of Modern Philosophy: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

History of Modern Philosophy, credited to Alfred William Benn, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of History of Modern Philosophy by Alfred William Benn. Read in English by Pamela Nagami This book is a brief, but cogent discussion of Western philosophy-- from Francis Bacon and Giordano Bruno through Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, Hume, Berkeley and Kant, the German idealists and Hegel, and ending with such nineteenth century luminaries as Mill, Spencer, and Nietzsche. Enchanted with Copernicus, Bruno goes to the stake for positing an infinity of inhabited worlds. Descartes, a professed skeptic, manages to justify everything the Jesuits taught him at La Flèche, while Spinoza, in mystical awe, envisions a pantheistic cosmos in which thought and extension are one and the same thing--God. The British philosopher, A.W. Benn, presents each thinker biographically and within the context of his philosophical predecessors and contemporaries. (Pamela Nagami, M.D.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: History of Modern Philosophy
• Author credits: Alfred William Benn
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 5:01:51

Catalogue topics

• Catholicism
• francis bacon
• Spinoza
• Arthur Schopenhauer
• aristotle
• modern philosophy
• theism
• immanuel kant

Track guide

1. 01 - Ch. 1: The Philosophical Renaissance, Pt. 1 — 25:00
2. 02 - Ch. 1: The Philosophical Renaissance, Pt. 2 — 19:20
3. 03 - Ch. 1: The Philosophical Renaissance, Pt. 3 — 16:52
4. 04 - Ch. 2: The Metaphysicians, Pt. 1 — 21:25
5. 05 - Ch. 2: The Metaphysicians, Pt. 2 — 22:47
6. 06 - Ch. 2: The Metaphysicians, Pt. 3 — 25:57
7. 07 - Ch. 3: The Theorists of Knowledge, Pt. 1 — 25:59
8. 08 - Ch. 3: The Theorists of Knowledge, Pt. 2 — 16:29
9. 09 - Ch. 3: The Theorists of Knowledge, Pt. 3 — 32:46
10. 10 - Ch. 4: The German Idealists, Pt. 1 — 22:21
11. 11 - Ch. 4: The German Idealists, Pt. 2 — 23:41
12. 12 - Ch. 5: The Humanists of the Nineteenth Century, Pt. 1 — 27:01
13. 13 - Ch. 5: The Humanists of the Nineteenth Century, Pt. 2 — 22:13

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