| Edition |
3rd ed. |
| Description |
42 audio discs (approximately 42 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebooks (xxiv, 421 pages : portraits ; 20 cm). |
| Series |
The great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Performer |
Lectures by Darren M. Staloff, Louis Markos, Jeremy Adams, Phillip Cary, Dennis G. Dalton, Alan Charles Kors, Jeremy Shearmur, Kathleen M. Higgins, Robert Hilary Kane, Robert C. Solomon, Douglas Kellner, and Mark W. Risjord. |
| Note |
In 7 containers, each with six sound discs and a single course guidebook covering all 42 lectures. |
| Contents |
Vol. 1. [Classical origins]. Introduction (Staloff) -- The pre-Socratics- physics and metaphysics (Markos) -- The Sophists and social science (Adams) -- Plato- metaphysics (Cary) -- Plato- politics (Dalton) -- Plato- psychology (Cary) -- Aristotle- metaphysics (Cary) -- Aristotle- politics (Dalton) -- Aristotle- ethics (Cary) -- Stoicism and epicureanism (Adams) -- Roman eclecticism- Cicero and Polybius (Adams) -- Roman skepticism- Sextus Empiricus (Adams). |
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Vol. 2. [The Christian age]. Introduction (Cary) -- Job and the problem of suffering (Cary) -- The Hebrew Bible and covenantal history (Cary) -- The synoptic gospels- the historical Jesus and the kingdom of God (Cary) -- Paul- justification by faith (Cary) -- Plotinus and neo-Platonism (Cary) -- Augustine- grace and free will (Cary) -- Aquinas and Christian Aristotelianism (Adams) -- Universals in medieval thought (Adams) -- Mysticism and Meister Eckhart (Cary) -- Luther- law and gospel (Cary) -- Calvin and Protestantism (Cary). |
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Vol. 3. From the Renaissance to the Age of Reason. Introduction (Staloff) -- Machiavelli and the origins of political science (Staloff) -- More's Utopianism (Staloff) -- Erasmus against enthusiasm (Adams) -- Galileo and the new astronomy (Kors) -- Bacon's new Organon and the new science (Kors) -- Descartes- the method of modern philosophy -- Hobbes- politics and the state of nature (Dalton) -- Spinoza- rationalism and the reverence for being (Staloff) -- Pascal- skepticism and Jansenism (Kors) -- Bayle- skepticism and Calvinism (Kors) -- Newton and enlightened science (Kors). |
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Vol. 4. The Enlightenment and its critics. Introduction (Kors) -- Locke- politics (Dalton) -- Locke- the revolution in knowledge (Kors) -- Vico and the new science of history (Staloff) -- Montesquieu and political thought (Kors) -- The worldly philosophy of Bernard Mandevill (Staloff) -- Bishop Berkeley- idealism and critique of the enlightenment (Staloff) -- Hume's epistemology (Staloff) -- Hume's theory of morality (Staloff) -- Hume's natural religion (Kors) -- Adam Smith and the origins of political economy (Shearmur) -- Rousseau's dissent (Kors). |
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Vol. 5. The Age of ideology. Introduction (Staloff) -- Kant's "Copernican revolution" (Kane) -- Kant's moral theory (Kane) -- Burke- the origins of conservatism (Shearmur) -- Hegel- history and historicism (Staloff) -- Marx- historical materialism (Staloff) -- Marx- on alienation (Dalton) -- Mill's utilitarianism (Solomon) -- Kierkegaard and the leap of faith (Cary) -- Schopenhauer- the world as will and idea (Higgins) -- Nietzsche- perspectivism and the will to power (Solomon) -- Nietzsche- the death of God, morality, and self-creation (Higgins). |
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Vol. 6. Modernism and the age of analysis. Introduction (Staloff) -- James's pragmatism (Staloff) -- Freud's psychology of human nature (Dalton) -- Freud's discontents (Dalton) -- A.J. Ayer and logical positivism (Staloff) -- Max Weber and legitimate authority (Staloff) -- Husserl and phenomenology (Solomon) -- Dewey's critique of traditional philosophy (Staloff) -- Heidegger- Dasein and Existenz (Solomon) -- Wittgenstein and language analysis (Risjord) -- The Frankfurt School (Kellner) -- Structuralism- Saussure and Lévi-Strauss (Markos). |
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Vol. 7. The crisis of modernity. Introduction (Staloff) -- Hayek and the critique of central planning (Shearmur) -- Popper- the open society and the philosophy of science (Shearmur) -- Kuhn's paradigm paradigm (Shearmur) -- Quine- ontological relativism (Staloff) -- Habermas- critical theory and communicative action (Kellner) -- Rawl's thoery of justice (Staloff) -- Derrida and deconstruction (Markos) -- Rorty's neo-pragmatism (Staloff) -- Gouldner- ideology and the "new" class (Staloff) -- MacIntyre- the rationality of traditions (Cary) -- Nozick's defense of Libertarianism (Shearmur). |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- History.
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Civilization, Western -- Philosophy.
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Civilization, Western -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst00863161
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Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Audiobooks collection -- Nonfiction.
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| Added Author |
Staloff, Darren, 1961-
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Markos, Louis.
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Adams, Jeremy duQuesnay.
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Cary, Phillip, 1958-
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Dalton, Dennis.
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Kors, Alan Charles.
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Shearmur, Jeremy, 1948-
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Solomon, Robert C.
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Kane, Robert, 1938-
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Higgins, Kathleen Marie.
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Risjord, Mark W., 1960-
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Kellner, Douglas, 1943-
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Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1565853547 |
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9781565853546 |
| Music No. |
PC470A Teaching Company |
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PB470A Teaching Company |
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IC470A-01--IC470A-07 Teaching Company |
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