The great ideas of philosophy/ Transcript book/ Lectures 1-30 Daniel N. Robinson.

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Part 1. Disc 1. Lecture 1 From the Upanishads to Homer ; Lecture 2 Philosophy: Did the Greeks invent it? ; Lecture 3 Pythagoras and the divinity of number ; Lecture 4 What is there? ; Lecture 5 The Greek tragedians on man's fate ; Lecture 6 Herodotus and the lamp of history -- Disc 2. Lecture 7 Socrates on the examined life ; Lecture 8 Plato's search for truth ; Lecture 9 Can virtue be taught? ; Lecture 10 Plato's 'Republic': Man writ large ; Lecture 11 Hippocrates and the science of life ; Lecture 12 Aristotle on the knowable.

Lectures by Daniel N. Robinson, Philosophy faculty, Oxford University; Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University.

The "Long Debate" on the nature of truth, the scale of real values, the life one should aspire to live, the character of justice, the sources of law, and the terms of civic and political life is encompassed by the name philosophy. Three persistent themes--understood as problems--are knowledge, conduct, and governance, on which there is a storehouse of insights, some so utterly persuasive as to have shaped thought itself. Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics, Epicureans, and Scholastic philosophers, through the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and Romanticism to Darwin and Freud, these lectures examine the long history of the discipline in which humanity criticizes its own certainties and weighs the worthiness of its most secure beliefs.