| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
10 videodiscs (2 parts ; 1800 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (19 cm.) |
| Series |
Great courses |
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Great courses (DVD)
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| Contents |
pt. 1. disc 1. From the Upanishads to Homer ; Philosophy, did the Greeks invent it? ; Pythagoras and the divinity of number ; What is there? ; The Greek tragedians on man's fate ; Herodotus and the lamp of history -- disc 2. Socrates on the examined life ; Plato's search for truth ; Can virtue be taught? ; Plato's Republic, man writ large ; Hippocrates and the science of life ; Aristotle on the knowable. |
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pt. 2. disc 3. Aristotle on friendship ; Aristotle on the perfect life ; Rome, the stoics, and the rule of law ; The stoic bridge to Christianity ; Roman law, making a city of the once-wide world ; The light within, Augustine on human nature -- disc 4. Secular knowledge, the idea of university ; The reappearance of experimental science ; Scholasticism and the theory of natural law ; The Renaissance, was there one? ; Let us burn the witches to save them. |
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pt. 3. disc 5. Francis Bacon and the authority of experience ; Descartes and the authority of reason ; Newton, the saint of science ; Hobbes and the social machine ; Locke's Newtonian science of the mind ; No matter? The challenge of materialism -- disc 6. Hume and the pursuit of happiness ; Thomas Reid and the Scottish school ; France and the philosophies ; The federalist papers and the great experiment ; What is Enlightenment? Kant on ; Moral science and the natural world. |
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pt. 4. disc 7. Phrenology, a science of the mind ; The idea of freedom ; The Hegelians and history ; The aesthetic movement, genius ; Nietzsche at the twilight ; The liberal tradition, J.S. Mill -- disc 8. Darwin and nature's "purposes" ; Marxism, dead but not forgotten ; The Freudian world ; The radical William James ; William James' pragmatism ; Wittgenstein and the discursive turn. |
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pt. 5. disc 9. Alan Turing in the forest of wisdom ; Four theories of the good life ; Ontology, what there "really" is ; Philosophy of science, the last word? ; Philosophy of psychology and related confusions ; Philosophy of mind, if there is one -- disc 10. What makes a problem "moral" ; Medicine and the values of life ; On the nature of law ; Justice and just wars ; Aesthetics, beauty without observers ; God, really? |
| Performer |
Daniel N. Robinson, lecturer. |
| Summary |
Sixty lectures by Daniel N. Robinson tracing the abiding issues of philosophy across the centuries. |
| System Details |
DVD format. |
| Subject |
DVD-Video discs.
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Philosophy -- History.
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Philosophy and science.
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Philosophy and religion.
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| Added Author |
Robinson, Daniel N., 1937-
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Teaching Company.
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| Added Title |
Philosophy |
| ISBN |
1565859820 |
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9781565859821 |
| Music No. |
4200 |
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4201--4205 |
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