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The great ideas of philosophy [videorecording] / Volume 1 of 2 [taught by] Daniel N. Robinson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 4200 | Teaching Company4201--4205 | Teaching CompanySeries: Great courses (DVD)Publication details: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2004.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 6 videodiscs (10 disks total approximately 1,800 min.) in 5 volumes : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebooks (22 cm) +̂ 2 Lecture transcriptContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1565859820 :
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 109 22
LOC classification:
  • B72 .R63 2004d
Contents:
pt. 1. 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 history -- disc 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 knowable.
pt. 2. disc 1. 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 nature -- disc 2. 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 them.
pt. 3. disc 1. 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 materialism -- disc 2. Hume and the pursuit of happiness -- Thomas Reid and the Scottish school -- Frances and the philosophes -- The federalist papers and the great experiment -- What is Enlightenment? Kant on freedom -- Moral science and the natural world.
pt. 4. disc 1. Phrenology, a science of the mind -- The idea of freedom -- The Hegelians and history -- The aesthetic movement, genius -- Nietzsche at the twilight -- The liberal tradition, J.S. Mill -- disc 2. Darwin and nature's "purposes" -- Marxism, dead but not forgotten -- The Freudian world -- The radical William James -- William James' pragmatism -- Wittgenstein and the discursive turn.
pt. 5. disc 1. Alan Turing 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 -- Philosophy of mind, if there is one -- disc 2. What makes a problem "moral" -- Medicine and the values of life -- On the nature of law -- Justice and just wars -- Aesthetics, beauty without observers -- God, really?
Daniel N. Robinson, lecturer.Summary: Sixty lectures by Daniel N. Robinson tracing the abiding issues of philosophy across the centuries.
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pt. 1. 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 history -- disc 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 knowable.

pt. 2. disc 1. 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 nature -- disc 2. 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 them.

pt. 3. disc 1. 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 materialism -- disc 2. Hume and the pursuit of happiness -- Thomas Reid and the Scottish school -- Frances and the philosophes -- The federalist papers and the great experiment -- What is Enlightenment? Kant on freedom -- Moral science and the natural world.

pt. 4. disc 1. Phrenology, a science of the mind -- The idea of freedom -- The Hegelians and history -- The aesthetic movement, genius -- Nietzsche at the twilight -- The liberal tradition, J.S. Mill -- disc 2. Darwin and nature's "purposes" -- Marxism, dead but not forgotten -- The Freudian world -- The radical William James -- William James' pragmatism -- Wittgenstein and the discursive turn.

pt. 5. disc 1. Alan Turing 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 -- Philosophy of mind, if there is one -- disc 2. What makes a problem "moral" -- Medicine and the values of life -- On the nature of law -- Justice and just wars -- Aesthetics, beauty without observers -- God, really?

Daniel N. Robinson, lecturer.

Sixty lectures by Daniel N. Robinson tracing the abiding issues of philosophy across the centuries.

DVD, region 1.

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