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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?
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Daniel Nicholas Robinson
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Lectures
These lectures offer a coherent and beautifully articulated introduction to the great philosophic co...
1. From the Upanishads to Homer
2. Philosophy—Did the Greeks Invent It?
3. Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number
4. What Is There?
5. The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate
6. Herodotus and the Lamp of History
7. Socrates on the Examined Life
8. Plato's Search For Truth
9. Can Virtue Be Taught?
10. Plato's Republic—Man Writ Large
11. Hippocrates and the Science of Life
12. Aristotle on the Knowable
13. Aristotle on Friendship
14. Aristotle on the Perfect Life
15. Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law
16. The Stoic Bridge to Christianity
17. Roman Law—Making a City of the Once-Wide World
18. The Light Within—Augustine on Human Nature
19. Islam
20. Secular Knowledge—The Idea of University
21. The Reappearance of Experimental Science
22. Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law
23. The Renaissance—Was There One?
24. Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them
25. Francis Bacon and the Authority of Experience
26. Descartes and the Authority of Reason
27. Newton—The Saint of Science
28. Hobbes and the Social Machine
29. Locke’s Newtonian Science of the Mind
30. No matter? The Challenge of Materialism
31. Hume and the Pursuit of Happiness
32. Thomas Reid and the Scottish School
33. France and the Philosophes
34. The Federalist Papers and the Great Experiment
35. What Is Enlightenment? Kant on Freedom
36. Moral Science and the Natural World
37. Phrenology—A Science of the Mind
38. The Idea of Freedom
39. The Hegelians and History
40. The Aesthetic Movement—Genius
41. Nietzsche at the Twilight
42. The Liberal Tradition—J. S. Mill
43. Darwin and Nature’s “Purposes”
44. Marxism—Dead But Not Forgotten
45. The Freudian World
46. The Radical William James
47. William James's Pragmatism
48. Wittgenstein and the Discursive Turn
49. Alan Turing in the Forest of Wisdom
50. Four Theories of the Good Life
51. Ontology—What There "Really" Is
52. Philosophy of Science—The Last Word?
53. Philosophy of Psychology and Related Confusions
54. Philosophy of Mind, If There Is One
55. What makes a Problem “Moral”
56. Medicine and the Value of Life
57. On the Nature of Law
58. Justice and Just Wars
59. Aesthetics—Beauty Without Observers
60. God—Really?