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The big questions of philosophy / Professor David Kyle Johnson, King's College.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmSeries: Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history.Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2016]Description: 6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 279 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
  • text
Media type:
  • video
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781629972367
  • 1629972363
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Contents:
disc 1. How do we do philosophy? ; Why should we trust reason? ; How do we reason carefully? ; How do we find the best explanation? ; What is truth? ; Is knowledge possible? -- disc 2. What is the best way to gain knowledge? ; Do we know what knowledge is? ; When can we trust testimony? ; Can mystical experience justify belief? ; Is faith ever rational? ; Why is there something rather than nothing? -- disc 3. What is God like? ; How could God allow moral evil? ; Why would God cause natural evil? ; Are freedom and foreknowledge compatible? ; Do our souls make us free? ; What does it mean to be free? -- disc 4. What preserves personal identity? ; Are persons mere minds? ; Are persons just bodies? ; Are you really you? ; How does the brain produce the mind? ; What do minds do, if anything? -- disc 5. Could machines think? ; Does God define the good? ; Does happiness define the good? ; Does reason define the good? ; How ought we to live? ; Why bother being good? -- disc 6. Should government exist? ; What justifies a government? ; How big should government be? ; What are the limits of liberty? ; What makes a society fair or just? ; What is the meaning of life?
David Kyle Johnson, King's College, lecturer.Summary: Learn to think clearly, shun fallacies, and reach your own conclusions as you confront the questions that have puzzled generations of philosophers.
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Course no. 4130.

Thirty-six lectures, 30 min. each.

disc 1. How do we do philosophy? ; Why should we trust reason? ; How do we reason carefully? ; How do we find the best explanation? ; What is truth? ; Is knowledge possible? -- disc 2. What is the best way to gain knowledge? ; Do we know what knowledge is? ; When can we trust testimony? ; Can mystical experience justify belief? ; Is faith ever rational? ; Why is there something rather than nothing? -- disc 3. What is God like? ; How could God allow moral evil? ; Why would God cause natural evil? ; Are freedom and foreknowledge compatible? ; Do our souls make us free? ; What does it mean to be free? -- disc 4. What preserves personal identity? ; Are persons mere minds? ; Are persons just bodies? ; Are you really you? ; How does the brain produce the mind? ; What do minds do, if anything? -- disc 5. Could machines think? ; Does God define the good? ; Does happiness define the good? ; Does reason define the good? ; How ought we to live? ; Why bother being good? -- disc 6. Should government exist? ; What justifies a government? ; How big should government be? ; What are the limits of liberty? ; What makes a society fair or just? ; What is the meaning of life?

David Kyle Johnson, King's College, lecturer.

Learn to think clearly, shun fallacies, and reach your own conclusions as you confront the questions that have puzzled generations of philosophers.

DVD.

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