The Classical Moralists: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Classical Moralists, credited to Benjamin Rand, 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 The Classical Moralists by Benjamin Rand. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The book is virtually a history of ethics, based not upon the ordinary description of systems, but upon selections from the original sources and upon translations of the authors themselves. It is sought, so far as is practicable, to present by means of the case method the most distinctive and constructive features in the ethical systems of the successive moralists. The evolution of ethical thought is thereby revealed, stripped of its controversial material, from Socrates to Martineau. Such a work, it is hoped, will prove indispensable as a text-book of required reading, alike for the historical and for the systematic study of ethics in the universities. - Summary by Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Classical Moralists
• Author credits: Benjamin Rand
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 102
• Listed recording duration: 34:16:40

Catalogue topics

• ethics
• philosophy -- ethics & moral philosophy
• religion -- christian theology -- ethics
• religion -- ethics
• ethics -- history
• ethics -- england -- history
• ethics -- france -- history
• ethics -- germany -- history

Opening tracks: first 24 of 102

1. 000 - Preface — 12:42
2. 001 - Socrates (469 — 399 B. C.) Part 1 — 15:29
3. 002 - Socrates (469 — 399 B. C.) Part 2 — 23:05
4. 003 - Socrates (469 — 399 B. C.) Part 3 — 13:50
5. 004 - Plato (427 — 347 B. C.) Part 1 — 5:45
6. 005 - Plato (427 — 347 B. C.) Part 2 — 41:58
7. 006 - Plato (427 — 347 B. C.) Part 3 — 17:44
8. 007 - Aristotle (384 — 324 B. C.) Title — 1:05
9. 008 - Aristotle (384 — 324 B. C.) Part 1 — 16:06
10. 009 - Aristotle (384 — 324 B. C.) Part 2 — 20:25
11. 010 - Aristotle (384 — 324 B. C.) Part 3 — 21:14
12. 011 - Aristotle (384 — 324 B. C.) Part 4 — 15:18
13. 012 - Aristotle (384 — 324 B. C.) Part 5 — 15:37
14. 013 - Zeno (356 — 264 B. C.) Part 1 — 26:05
15. 014 - Zeno (356 — 264 B. C.) Part 2 — 27:07
16. 015 - Epicurus (341 — 270) Part 1 — 27:56
17. 016 - Epicurus (341 — 270 B. C.) Part 2 — 15:23
18. 017 - Titus Lucretius Carus (95 — 51 B. C.) — 23:57
19. 018 - Epictetus (60 A. D. —?) Part 1 — 19:15
20. 019 - Epictetus (60 A. D. —?) Part 2 — 11:56
21. 020 - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 — 180) Part 1 — 16:46
22. 021 - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 — 180) Part 2 — 29:15
23. 022 - Plotinus (205 — 270) Part 1 — 22:22
24. 023 - Plotinus (205 — 270) Part 2 — 16:24

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