| Description |
30 sound discs (approximately 30 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 5 course guidebooks (22 cm) |
| Series |
The great courses, philosophy & intellectual history |
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Great courses, philosophy & intellectual history.
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| Performer |
Lecturer: Daniel N. Robinson, Oxford University. |
| Note |
In five containers (23 cm.), with study guides, including lecture notes, outlines, timelines, glossaries, and bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Sixty lectures tracing the abiding issues of philosophy across the centuries. |
| Contents |
pt. 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 -- 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 -- pt. 2. 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 -- Islam -- 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 -- pt. 3. 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 -- Hume and the pursuit of happiness -- Thomas Reid and the Scottish school -- France and the Philosophes -- The Federalist papers and the great experiment -- What is enlightenment? Kant on freedom -- Moral science and the natural world -- pt. 4. 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 -- 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 -- pt. 5. 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 -- What makes a problem 'moral' -- Medicine and the value of life -- On the nature of law -- Justice and just wars -- Aesthetics, beauty without observers -- God, really? |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- History -- Sound recordings.
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| Local Subject |
BOOKS ON COMPACT DISC.
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| Genre |
Audiobooks.
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Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1565859812 |
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9781565859814 |
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PC4200-01 Teaching Company |
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PC4200-02 Teaching Company |
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