| Description |
6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 148 pages ; 19 cm) |
| Series |
Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history Intellectual history.
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| Note |
Includes 36 lectures; 30 minutes per lecture; 6 lectures per disc |
| Contents |
Disc 1. The meaning of the meaning of life ; The Bhagavad-Gitā: choice and daily life ; The Bhagavad-Gitā: discipline and duty ; The Bhagavad-Gitā: union and purpose ; Aristotle on life: the big picture ; Aristotle: the highest good -- disc 2. Aristotle: the happy life ; Job's predicament: life is so unfair ; Job's challenge: who are we? ; Stoicism: rationality and acceptance ; Human finitude: the epicurean synthesis ; Confucius: order in the cosmos and in life -- disc 3. Daodejing: the Dao of life and spontaneity ; Daodejing: the best life is a simple life ; Daodejing: sublety and paradox ; Zhuangzi on Daoism: impermanence and harmony ; The teachings of the Buddha ; Śāntideva: Mahayana Buddhism -- disc 4. Śāntideva: transforming the mind ; Zen: the moon in a dewdrop and impermanence ; Zen: being-time and primordial awakening ; Taking stock of the classical world ; Hume's skepticism and the place of God ; Hume's careless and compassionate vision -- disc 5. Kant: immaturity and the challenge to know ; Mill's call to individuality and to liberty ; Tolstoy: is everyday life the real thing? ; Nietzsche: Twilight of the idiots ; Nietzsche: achieving authenticity ; Gandhi: Satyāgraha and holding fast to truth -- disc 6. Gandhi: the call to a supernormal life ; Lame Deer: life enfolded in symbols ; Lame Deer: our place in a symbolic world ; HH Dalai Lama XIV: a modern Buddhist view ; HH Dalai Lama XIV: discernment and happiness ; So, what is the meaning of life? |
| Credits |
Producer, Jennifer Gray |
| Performer |
Lecturer, Jay L. Garfield |
| Summary |
Professor Jay L. Garfield gives 36 lectures that offer a rigorous and wide-ranging exploration of what various spiritual, religious, and philosophical traditions from both the East and the West have contributed to the questioning of the meaning of life. |
| System Details |
DVD; Stereo / Dolby surround; AC-3; Dolby digital sound |
| Subject |
Life -- Videodiscs.
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Meaning (Philosophy) -- Videodiscs.
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DVD-Video discs.
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Life. |
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Meaning (Philosophy) |
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DVD-Video discs.
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| Added Author |
Garfield, Jay L.
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Leven, Jon.
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Scarbrough, Wendy.
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Gray, Jennifer (Producer)
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Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
9781598037197 |
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1598037196 |
| Music No. |
PD4320 |
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