| Edition |
2nd edition. |
| Description |
30 audio discs (approximately 1800 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm). |
| Playing Time |
300000 |
| Series |
The great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Performer |
Daniel N. Robinson, Oxford University, lecturer. |
| Note |
Compact disc. |
| Summary |
Presents sixty lectures by Professor Robinson, tracing the origins of philosophy and its history across the centuries. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- Hume and the pursuit of happiness -- Thomas Reid and the Scottish school -- France and the philosophes -- The federalist papers and the great experiment -- What is enlightenment? Kant on freedom -- Moral science and the natural world -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- What makes a problem "moral" -- Medicine and the value of life -- On the nature of law -- Justice and just wars -- Aesthetics, beauty without observers -- God, really? |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- History.
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Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
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| Genre/Form |
Speeches. (OCoLC)fst01774286
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Sound recordings. (OCoLC)fst01411639
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Lectures. (OCoLC)fst01919935
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Instructional and educational works. (OCoLC)fst01919931
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Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Audiobooks.
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Sound recordings.
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Instructional and educational works.
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Lectures.
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Speeches.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1565859812 |
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9781565859814 |
| Music No. |
4200 Teaching Company |
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PC4200A Teaching Company |
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