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The great ideas of philosophy

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The great ideas of philosophy

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These lectures offer a coherent and beautifully articulated introduction to the great philosophic conversation of the ages. They cover an enormous range of seminal thinkers and perspectives, but always from the vantage point of life's enduring questions

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 historyDisc 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 knowableDisc 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 natureDisc 4: 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 themDisc 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 materialismDisc 6: Hume and the pursuit of happiness -- Thomas Reid and the Scottish School -- France and the Philosphes -- The Federalist Papers and the the great experiment -- What is enlightenment? Kant on freedom -- Moral science and the natural worldDisc 7: Phrenology - A science of the mind -- The idea of freedom -- The Hegelians and history -- The aesthetic movement - Genius -- Nietzche at the twilight -- The liberal tradition - J.S. WillDisc 8: Darwin and nature's "Purpose" -- Marxism - Dead but not forgotten -- The Fruedian world -- The radical William James -- William James's pragmatism -- Wittgenstein and teh discursive turnDisc 9: Alan Turning 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 -- Philsophy of mind, if there is oneDisc 10: 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?

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