Name: The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition
Genre: Talk, Documentary
Released: 01 Jan 2004
Rating: 0.00
Cast: Daniel Nicholas Robinson

Season - Episode

1 Season 1 Jan 01, 2004

1 - 1

From the Upanishads to Homer Jan 01, 2004
1 - 2

Philosophy—Did the Greeks Invent It? Jan 01, 2004
1 - 3

Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number Jan 01, 2004
1 - 4

What Is There? Jan 01, 2004
1 - 5

The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate Jan 01, 2004
1 - 6

Herodotus and the Lamp of History Jan 01, 2004
1 - 7

Socrates on the Examined Life Jan 01, 2004
1 - 8

Plato's Search For Truth Jan 01, 2004
1 - 9

Can Virtue Be Taught? Jan 01, 2004
1 - 10

Plato's Republic—Man Writ Large Jan 01, 2004
1 - 11

Hippocrates and the Science of Life Jan 01, 2004
1 - 12

Aristotle on the Knowable Jan 01, 2004
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Aristotle on Friendship Jan 01, 2004
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Aristotle on the Perfect Life Jan 01, 2004
1 - 15

Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law Jan 01, 2004
1 - 16

The Stoic Bridge to Christianity Jan 01, 2004
1 - 17

Roman Law—Making a City of the Once-Wide World Jan 01, 2004
1 - 18

The Light Within—Augustine on Human Nature Jan 01, 2004
1 - 19

Islam Jan 01, 2004
1 - 20

Secular Knowledge—The Idea of University Jan 01, 2004
1 - 21

The Reappearance of Experimental Science Jan 01, 2004
1 - 22

Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law Jan 01, 2004
1 - 23

The Renaissance—Was There One? Jan 01, 2004
1 - 24

Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them Jan 01, 2004
1 - 25

Francis Bacon and the Authority of Experience Jan 01, 2004
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Descartes and the Authority of Reason Jan 01, 2004
1 - 27

Newton—The Saint of Science Jan 01, 2004
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Hobbes and the Social Machine Jan 01, 2004
1 - 29

Locke’s Newtonian Science of the Mind Jan 01, 2004
1 - 30

No matter? The Challenge of Materialism Jan 01, 2004
1 - 31

Hume and the Pursuit of Happiness Jan 01, 2004
1 - 32

Thomas Reid and the Scottish School Jan 01, 2004
1 - 33

France and the Philosophes Jan 01, 2004
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The Federalist Papers and the Great Experiment Jan 01, 2004
1 - 35

What Is Enlightenment? Kant on Freedom Jan 01, 2004
1 - 36

Moral Science and the Natural World Jan 01, 2004
1 - 37

Phrenology—A Science of the Mind Jan 01, 2004
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The Idea of Freedom Jan 01, 2004
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The Hegelians and History Jan 01, 2004
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The Aesthetic Movement—Genius Jan 01, 2004
1 - 41

Nietzsche at the Twilight Jan 01, 2004
1 - 42

The Liberal Tradition—J. S. Mill Jan 01, 2004
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Darwin and Nature’s “Purposes” Jan 01, 2004
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Marxism—Dead But Not Forgotten Jan 01, 2004
1 - 45

The Freudian World Jan 01, 2004
1 - 46

The Radical William James Jan 01, 2004
1 - 47

William James's Pragmatism Jan 01, 2004
1 - 48

Wittgenstein and the Discursive Turn Jan 01, 2004
1 - 49

Alan Turing in the Forest of Wisdom Jan 01, 2004
1 - 50

Four Theories of the Good Life Jan 01, 2004
1 - 51

Ontology—What There "Really" Is Jan 01, 2004
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Philosophy of Science—The Last Word? Jan 01, 2004
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Philosophy of Psychology and Related Confusions Jan 01, 2004
1 - 54

Philosophy of Mind, If There Is One Jan 01, 2004
1 - 55

What makes a Problem “Moral” Jan 01, 2004
1 - 56

Medicine and the Value of Life Jan 01, 2004
1 - 57

On the Nature of Law Jan 01, 2004
1 - 58

Justice and Just Wars Jan 01, 2004
1 - 59

Aesthetics—Beauty Without Observers Jan 01, 2004
1 - 60

God—Really? Jan 01, 2004

Overview

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 the enduring questions: What can we know? How ought we to act? How should we order our life together?

Year 2004

Studio Wonderium, The Great Courses

Director

Crew

Popularity 0.2059

Language English