The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Great Philosophers of the Western World (Audiobook) By Will Durant, read by Grover Gardner
Publisher: The Au..dio Part..ners Publis..hing Corp.; Unabridged edition 2004 | 19 hours and 29 mins | ISBN: n/a | MP3 | 212 MB

Table of Contents:
Introduction: On the Uses of Philosophy
Chapter I: Plato
- The Context of Plato
- Socrates
- The Preparation of Plato
- The Ethical Problem
- The Political Problem
- The Psychological Solution
- The Political Solution
- The Ethical Solution
- Criticism
Chapter II: Aristotle and Greek Science
- The Historical Background
- The Work of Aristotle
- The Foundation of Logic
- The Organisation of Science:
1. Greek Science Before Aristotle
2. Aristotle as a Naturalist
3. The Foundation of Biology
- Metaphysics and the Nature of God
- Psychology and the Nature of Art
- Ethics and the Nature of Happiness
- Politics:
1. Communism and Conservatism
2. Marriage and Education
3. Democracy and Aristocracy
- Criticism
- Later Life and Death
Chapter III: Francis Bacon
- From Aristotle to the Renaissance
- The Political Career of Francis Bacon
- The Essays
- The Great Reconstruction:
1. The Advancement of Learning
2. The New Organon
3. The Utopia of Science
- Criticism
- Epilogue
Chapter IV: Spinoza
- Historical and Biographical
1. The Odyssey of the Jews
2. The Education of Spinoza
3. Excommunication
4. Retirement and Death
- The Treatise of Religion and the State
- The Improvement of the Intellect
- The Ethics:
1. The Nature of God
2. Matter and Mind
3. Intelligence and Morals
4. Religion and Immortality
- The Political Treatise
- The Influence of Spinoza
Chapter V: Voltaire and the French Enlightenment
- Paris
- London: Letters on the English
- Cirey: The Romances
- Potsdam and Frederick
- Les Delices: The Essay on Morals
- Ferney: Candide
- The Encyclopedia and the Philosophic Dictionary
- Ecrasez l'Imfame
- Voltaire and Rousseau
- Denouement
Chapter VI: Immanuel Kant and German Idealism
- Roads to Kant:
1. From Voltaire to Kant
2. From Locke to Kant
3. From Rousseau to Kant
- Kant Himself
- The Critique of Pure Reason:
1. Transcendental Esthetic
2. Transcendental Analytic
3. Transcendental Dialectic
- The Critique of Practical Reason
- On Religion and Reason
- On Politics and Eternal Peace
- Criticism and Estimate
- A Note on Hegel
Chapter VII: Schopenhauer
- The Age
- The Man
- The World as Idea
- The World as Will:
1. The Will to Live
2. The Will to Reproduce
- The World as Evil
- The Wisdom of Life:
1. Philosophy
2. Genius
3. Art
4. Religion
- The Wisdom of Death
- Criticism
Chapter VIII: Herbert Spencer
- Comte and Darwin
- The Development of Spencer
- First Principles:
1. The Unknowable
2. Evolution
- Biology: The Evolution of Life
- Psychology: The Evolution of Mind
- Sociology: The Evolution of Society
- Ethics: The Evolution of Morals
- Criticism:
1. First Principles
2. Biology and Psychology
3. Sociology and Ethics
- Conclusion
Chapter IX: Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Lineage of Nietzsche
- Youth
- Nietzsche and Wagner
- The Song of Zarathustra
- Hero Morality
- The Superman
- Decadence
- Aristocracy
- Criticism
- Finale
Chapter X: Contemporary European Philosophers
- Henri Bergson:
1. The Rovolt Against Materialism
2. Mind and Brain
3. Creative Evolution
4. Criticism
- Benedetto Croce:
1. The Man
2. The Philosophy of the Spirit
3. What is Beauty?
4. Criticism
- Bertrand Russell:
1. The Logician
2. The Reformer
3. Epilogue
Chapter XI: Contemporary American Philosophers
- George Santayana:
1. Biographical
2. Scepticism and Animal Faith
3. Reason in Science
4. Reason in Religion
5. Reason in Society
6. Comment
- William James:
1. Personal
2. Pragmatism
3. Pluralism
4. Comment
- John Dewey:
1. Education
2. Instrumentalism
3. Science and Politics
Conclusion