HoP 050 - MM McCabe and Raphael Woolf on Aristotle on Plato

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HoP 050 - MM McCabe and Raphael Woolf on Aristotle on Plato

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Oct 16, 2011

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Peter's colleagues MM McCabe and Raphael Woolf join him for a special 50th episode interview, to discuss Aristotle's reactions to his teacher Plato

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Oct 16, 2011

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Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps". www.historyofphilosophy.net

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HoP 050 - MM McCabe and Raphael Woolf on Aristotle on Plato

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