Compact disc. Daniel N. Robinson, Oxford University, lecturer.
Contents:
Lec. 10. Plato's Republic - Man writ large -- Lec. 2. What is it and did the Greeks invent it? -- Lec. 3. Pythagoras and the divinity of number -- Lec. 4. What is there? The Pre-Socratics and the ultimate stuff of the universe -- Lec. 5. Is Medea guilty as charged? The Greek tragedians on man's fate -- Lec. 6. Know thyself - Herodotus and the lamp of history -- Lec. 7. Socrates on the examined life -- Lec. 8. Plato's search for truth -- Lec. 9. Can virtue be taught? -- Lec. 10. Plato's Republic - Man writ large -- Lec. 20. Secular knowledge - the idea of the university -- Lec. 12. Aristotle on the knowable -- Lec. 13. Aristotle on friendship -- Lec. 14. Aristotle on the perfect life -- Lec. 15. Rome, the Stoics, and the rule of law -- Lec. 16. Stoic bridge to Christianity -- Lec. 17. Roman law - making a city of the once-wide world -- Lec. 18. The light within - Augustine's idea of human nature -- Lec. 19. Islam -- Lec. 20. Secular knowledge - the idea of the university -- Lec. 30. No matter? Never mind! Berkeley and the challenge of materialism -- Lec. 22. Scholasticism and the theory of natural law -- Lec. 23. Erasmus and Luther - humanism and fundamentalism -- Lec. 24. Let us burn the witches to save them... -- Lec. 25. Francis Bacon's "Great Instauration" - the authority of experience -- Lec. 26. Descartes and the skeptical mind - the authority of reason -- Lec. 27. Newton - the saint of science -- Lec. 28. The Social machine - Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and the science of statecraft -- Lec. 29. A Newtonian science of the mind - John Locke on human understanding -- Lec. 30. No matter? Never mind! Berkeley and the challenge of materialism -- Lec. 40. The World as the gift of genius - the aesthetic movement -- Lec. 32. Common sense and the Divine Providence - Thomas Reid and the Scottish school -- Lec. 33. The Play of mind and the salons of dissent - France and the philosophies -- Lec. 34. The Federalist papers and the great experiment -- Lec. 35. What is enlightenment? Kant on freedom and the forms of knowledge -- Lec. 36. Moral science and the natural world - Kant and the moral imperative -- Lec. 37. The Phrenologists - early sciences of mind and brain -- Lec. 38. The Idea of freedom -- Lec. 39. Human history as the unfolding of the ideal - the Hegelians -- Lec. 40. The World as the gift of genius - the aesthetic movement -- Lec. 50. Four theories of the good life - from saints to heroes to brains in vats. Lec. 42. The Liberal tradition - J. S. Mill on liberty -- Lec. 43. Survival of the fittest - Darwin & the purposes of nature -- Lec. 44. Marxism - dead but not forgotten -- Lec. 45. The Freudian world -- Lec. 46. Yankee thought in a world of mystery - the radical William James -- Lec. 47. William James's pragmatism -- Lec. 48. Helping the fly out of the bottle - Wittgenstein and the discursive turn -- Lec. 49. Breaking the code - Alan Turing in the forest of wisdom -- Lec. 50. Four theories of the good life - from saints to heroes to brains in vats.
Summary:
Dr. Daniel N. Robinson, Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University and Georgetown University, delivers fifty lectures in five parts tracing the origins of philosophy and its history across the centuries and countries.
Series:
The great courses : teaching that engages the mind
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