The great ideas of philosophy /
Presents sixty lectures by Professor Robinson, tracing the origins of philosophy and its history across the centuries.
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| Format: | CD Audio Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Co.,
[2004]
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Great courses (Compact disc)
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Table of Contents:
- pt.1. disc 1. From the Upanishads to Homer ; Philosophy--did the Greeks invent it?
- disc 2. Pythagoras and the divinity of number ; What is there?
- disc 3. The Greek tragedians on man's fate ; Herodotus and the lamp of history
- disc 4. Socrates on the examined life ; Plato's search for truth
- disc 5. Can virtue be taught? ; Plato's Republic--man writ large
- disc 6. Hippocrates and the science of life ; Aristotle on the knowable.
- pt. 2. disc 7. Aristotle on friendship ; Aristotle on the perfect life
- disc 8. Rome, the Stoics, and the rule of law ; The Stoic bridge to Christianity
- disc 9. Roman law--making a city of the once-wide world ; The light within--Augustine on human nature
- disc 10. Islam ; Secular knowledge--the idea of university
- disc 11. The reappearance of experimental science ; Scholasticism and the theory of natural law
- disc 12. The Renaissance--was there one? ; Let us burn the witches to save them
- pt. 3. disc 13. Francis Bacon and the authority of experience ; Descartes and the authority of reason
- disc 14. Newton, the saint of science ; Hobbes and the social machine
- disc 15. Locke's Newtonian science of the mind ; No matter? The challenge of materialism
- disc 16. Hume and the pursuit of happiness ; Thomas Reid and the Scottish school
- disc 17. France and the philosophes ; The federalist papers and the great experiment
- disc 18. What is enlightenment? Kant on freedom ; Moral science and the natural world
- pt. 4. disc 19. Phrenology--a science of the mind ; The idea of freedom
- disc 20. The Hegelians and history ; The aesthetic movement--genius
- disc 21. Nietzsche at the twilight ; The liberal tradition--J.S. Mill
- disc 22. Darwin and nature's "purposes" ; Marxism--dead but not forgotten
- disc 23. The Freudian world ; The radical William James
- disc 24. William James' pragmatism ; Wittgenstein and the discursive turn
- pt. 5. disc 25. Alan Turing in the forest of wisdom ; Four theories of the good life
- disc 26. Ontology--what there "really" is ; Philosophy of science--the last word?
- disc 27. Philosophy of psychology and related confusions ; Philosophy of mind, if there is one
- disc 28. What makes a problem "moral" ; Medicine and the value of life
- disc 29. On the nature of law ; Justice and just wars
- disc 30. Aesthetics--beauty without observers ; God--really?