The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition

The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition « Series from 2023

Series from 2023

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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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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

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

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

Islam

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

Francis Bacon and the Authority of Experience