Philosophy and religion in the West : [lectures] /

Presents an introduction to the history of Western civilization's religious and philosophical traditions.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cary, Phillip, 1958-
Corporate Author: Teaching Company
Format: CD Audio Book
Language:English
Published: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [1999]
Series:Great courses (Compact disc)
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I (6 discs). lecture 1. Introduction : Philosophy and religions as traditions ; lecture 2. Plato's inquiries : the Gods and the good ; lecture 3. Plato's spirituality : the immortal soul and the other world ; lecture 4. Plato and Aristotle : cosmos, contemplation and happiness ; lecture 5. Plotinus : neoplatonism and the ultimate unity of all ; lecture 6. The Jewish scriptures : life with the God of Israel ; lecture 7. Platonist philosophy and scriptural religion ; lecture 8. The New Testament : life in Christ ; lecture 9. Rabbinic Judaism : Israel and the Torah ; lecture 10. Church Fathers : the logos made flesh ; lecture 11. The development of Christian Platonism ; lecture 12. Jewish rationalism and mysticism : Maimonides and Kabbalah
  • pt. II (5 discs). lecture 13. Classical theism : proofs and attributes of God ; lecture 14. Medieval Christian theology : nature and grace ; lecture 15. Late-medieval nominalism and Christian mysticism ; lecture 16. Protestantism : problems of grace ; lecture 17. Descartes, Locke, and the crisis of modernity ; lecture 18. Leibniz and theodicy ; lecture 19. Hume's Critique of religion ; lecture 20. Kant : reason limited to experience ; lecture 21. Kant : morality as the basis of religion ; lecture 22. Schleiermacher : feeling as the basis of religion
  • pt. III (5 discs). lecture 23. Hegel : a philosophical history of religion ; lecture 24. Marx and the hermeneutics of suspicion ; lecture 25. Kierkegaard : existentialism and the leap of faith ; lecture 26. Nietzsche : critic of Christian morality ; lecture 27. Neo-orthodoxy : the subject and object of faith ; lecture 28. Encountering the biblical other : Buber and Levinas ; lecture 29. Process philosophy : God in time ; lecture 30. Logical empiricism and the meaning of religion ; lecture 31. "Reformed" epistemology and the rationality of belief ; lecture 32. Conclusion : philosophy and religion today.