| Description |
14 videodiscs (42 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 7 course guidebooks (22 cm.). |
| Series |
Great courses |
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Great courses (DVD)
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| System Details |
DVD. |
| Note |
Title from disc containers. |
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""Philosoph & intellectual history."--Container insert. |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical references included in course guidebooks. |
| Summary |
Presents lectures by Darren Staloff. These lectures are based on the seminar course at Columbia University on Western intellectual history augmented by additional lectures by selected "guest" lecturers. Gives a guided tour through 3,000 years of Western thought. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Classical origins. Disc 1. Lectures 1-6. Introduction -- The Pre-Socratics, physics and metaphysics -- The Sophists and social science -- Plato, metaphysics -- Plato, politics Plato, psychology -- Disc 2. Lectures 7-12. Aristotle, metaphysics -- Aristotle, politics -- Aristotle, ethics -- Stoicism and Epicureanism -- Roman eclecticism, Cicero and Polybius -- Roman skepticism, Sextus Empiricus. |
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pt. 2. The Christian age. Disc. 3. Lectures 13-18. Introduction -- Job and the problem of suffering -- The Hebrew Bible and covenantal history -- The Synoptic Gospels, the historical Jesus and the Kingdom of God -- Paul, justification by faith -- Plotinus and Neo-Platonism -- Disc 4. Lectures 19-24. Augustine, grace and free will -- Aquinas and Christian Aristotelianism -- Universals in medieval thought -- Mysticism and Meister -- Luther, law and gospel -- Calvin and Protestantism. |
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pt. 3. From the Renaissance to the age of reason. Disc 5. Lectures 25-30. Introduction -- Machiavelli and the origins of political science -- More's Utopianism -- Erasmus against enthusiasm -- Galileo and the new astronomy -- Bacon's new organon and the new science -- Disc 6. Lectures 31-36. Descartes, the method of modern philosophy -- Hobbes, politics and the state of nature -- Spinoza, Rationalism and the reverence of being -- Pascal, Skepticism and Jansenism -- Bayle, Skepticism and Calvinism -- Newton and enlightened science. |
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pt. 4. The Enlightenment and its critics. Disc 7. Lectures 37-42. Introduction -- Locke, politics -- Locke, the revolution of knowledge -- Vico and the new science of history -- Montesquieu and political thought The wordly philosophy of Bernard Mandeville -- Disc 8. Lectures 43-48. Bishop Berkeley, Idealism and critique of the Enlightenment -- Hume's Epistemology -- Hume's theory of morality -- Hume's natural religion -- Adam Smith and the origins of political economy -- Rousseau's dissent. |
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pt. 5. The Age of Ideology. Disc 9. Lectures 49-54. Introduction -- Kant's "Copernican Revolution" -- Kant's moral theory -- Burke, the origins of conservatism -- Hegel, history and historicism -- Marx, historical materialism -- Disc 10. Lectures 55-60. Marx, on alienation -- Mill's Utilitarianism -- Kiekegaard and the leap of faith -- Schopenhauer, the world as will and idea -- Nietzsche, perspectivism and the will to power -- Nietzsche, the death of God, morality, and self-creation. |
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pt. 6. Modernism and the age of analysis. Disc 11. Lectures 61-66. Introduction -- Jame's Pragmatism -- Freud's psychology of human nature -- Freud's discontents -- A.J. Ayer and Logical Positivism -- Max Weber and legitimate authority -- Disc 12. Lectures 67-72. Husserl and Phenomenology -- Dewey's critique of traditional philosophy -- Heidegger, Dasein and existenz -- Wittgenstein and language analysis -- The Frankfurt school Structuralism, Saussure and Lévi-Strauss. |
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pt. 7. The crisis of modernity. Disc 13. Lectures 73-78. Introduction -- Hayek and the critique of central planning -- Popper, the open society and the philosophy of science -- Kuhn's paradigm paradigm -- Quine, ontological relativism -- Habermas, critical theory and communicative action -- Disc 14. Lectures 79-84. Rawls's theory of justice -- Derrida and deconstruction -- Rorty's neo-pragmatism -- Gouldner, ideology and the "new" class -- MacIntyre, the rationality of traditions -- Nozick's defense of libertarianism. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- History.
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Civilization, Western -- Philosophy.
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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 |
1565855787 |
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9781565855786 |
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9791565855785 |
| Music No. |
470 Teaching Company |
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