Audiobooks Narrated by Theocharis Charitonidis

Αριστοτέλης - Περί Ψυχής

A few years after the first edition of 'On the Soul' -one of the most important works of the great philosopher Aristotle- and the successive reissues brought by the excellent acceptance and demand of its numerous readers, ZITROS Publications with great satisfaction and pleasure proceeds to a completely renewed and complete in every respect edition of the work. The entirely new, extensive and fully documented Introduction that precedes the text and the translation and the enrichment with many more notes and comments - philosophical, hermeneutical, factual, philological - upgrade and complete the volume in every respect, so that the general and special audience can now even more easily approach the thought of the Stoegirite philosopher, delve into the difficult philosophical concepts and the proposed interpretations, refer to the notes and comments that follow the text, facilitate their understanding, enrich their knowledge and develop their own thinking and reflection. With Aristotle's On the Psyche, Psychology becomes for the first time an independent science and the psychic functions are analysed, largely from a physical and biological point of view - as the principle of all that has movement and life - with the aim of exploring its essence and what happens in it, and in the belief that such knowledge contributes most to the understanding of truth. This extremely difficult subject, which has not ceased and will continue to occupy philosophers and scientists to this day, is analysed in a series of problems-such as: what is the soul, what is the most appropriate method of investigating it, what is its relation to the body, what are its properties and manifestations, whether it is unified or has parts, whether it exists independently of the body, how the five senses and the common speech function, the question of truth and falsehood, how the mind constitutes general concepts.

Aristotle (Author), Theocharis Charitonidis (Narrator)

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Επίκτητος Εγχειρίδιον

Epictetus is referred to as a child of slaves and is said to have been born in Hierapolis of Phrygia (Izmit, today's Turkey), hence the nickname Ierapolites. On arriving in Rome, he was bought by Epaphroditus, who was a freedman of Nero. Epictetus was a victim of Epaphroditus. The latter put his leg in a manganese and tightened it, to make him lose his stoicism and cry out. 'You'll break my leg,' Epictetus warned him, but Epaphroditus kept on tightening it until the harm was done. 'Didn't I tell you you'd break my leg?' was all Epictetus had to say. During this period he seems to have attended the philosophy lessons of Muses Roufus, and summed up his philosophy in the words 'anechou and anechou' (in modern Greek: 'To have patience and endurance'). When he subsequently became a freedman, he settled for a time in Rome, where he lived in a hut that was always kept open. Because of a decree of Domitian in 93, all philosophers were expelled from Italy and Epictetus was forced to leave Rome and go to Nicopolis in Epirus (Preveza Prefecture), where he founded a philosophical school. Among his students was the historian and prefect of Cappadocia, Flavius Arrian of Nicomedia, who collected his speeches, of which only the first four books survive. He then drew from them a collection of thoughts known as the 'Handbook of Epictetus'.

Epictetus (Author), Theocharis Charitonidis (Narrator)

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