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The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition
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202360 episoder
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- S1 E1 – From the Upanishads to Homer20. september 202331minBefore ancient Greek civilization, the world hosted deep insights into the human condition but offered little critical reflection. Homer planted the seeds of this reflection.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E2 – Philosophy - Did the Greeks Invent It?20. september 202331minThe ancient Greeks were the first to objectify the products of their own thought and feeling and be willing to subject both to critical scrutiny. Why?Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E3 – Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number20. september 202330minHow can we comprehend the very integrity of the universe and our place within it, if not by way of the most abstract relations?Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E4 – What Is There?20. september 202331minHow many kinds of stuff make up the cosmos? Might everything, in fact, be reducible to one kind of thing?Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E5 – The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate20. september 202329minThe ancient philosophers were only part of the rich community of thought and wonder that surrounded the world's first great dramatists and their landmark depth psychologies.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E6 – Herodotus and the Lamp of History20. september 202330minCan history actually teach us? Herodotus looked at what he took to be certain universal human aspirations and deficiencies and concluded that indeed history could.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E7 – Socrates on the Examined Life20. september 202331minRhetoric wins arguments, but it is philosophy that shows us the way to our humanity.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E8 – Plato's Search For Truth20. september 202331minIf one knows what one is looking for, why is a search necessary? And if one doesn't know, how is that search even possible? Socrates versus the Sophists.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E9 – Can Virtue Be Taught?20. september 202331minIf virtue can be taught, whose virtue will it be? A look at the Socratic recognition of multiculturalism and moral relativism.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E10 – Plato's Republic - Man Writ Large20. september 202331minThis most famous of Plato's dialogues begins with the metaphor—or perhaps the reality—of the polis (community) as the expanded version of the person, with the fate of each inextricably bound to that of the other.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E11 – Hippocrates and the Science of Life20. september 202329minHippocratic medicine did much to demystify the human condition and the natural factors that affect it.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E12 – Aristotle on the Knowable20. september 202331minSmith knows that a particular triangle contains 180 degrees because he has measured it, while Jones knows it by definition. But do they know the same thing?Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E13 – Aristotle on Friendship20. september 202330minIf true friendship is possible only between equals, how equal must they be—and with respect to what?Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E14 – Aristotle on the Perfect Life20. september 202331minWhat sort of life is right for humankind, and what is it about us that makes this so?Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E15 – Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law20. september 202331minThe Stoics found in language something that would separate humanity from the animate realm, and that gave Rome a philosophy to civilize the world.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E16 – The Stoic Bridge to Christianity20. september 202329minThe Jewish Christians, Hellenized or Orthodox, defended a monotheistic source of law.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E17 – Roman Law - Making a City of the Once-Wide World20. september 202329minRoman development of law based on a conception of nature, and of human nature, is one of the signal achievements in the history of civilization.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E18 – The Light Within - Augustine on Human Nature20. september 202330minThoughts and ideas from the fathers of the early Christian Church culminated in St. Augustine, who explores humanity's capacity for good and evil.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E19 – Islam20. september 202331minWhat did the Prophet teach that so moved the masses? And how did the Western world come to understand the threat embodied in these Eastern "heresies"?Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E20 – Secular Knowledge - The Idea of University20. september 202331minApart from trade schools devoted to medicine and law, the university as we know it did not come into being until 12th-century Paris.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E21 – The Reappearance of Experimental Science20. september 202330minThere were really two great renaissances. The first occurred at Oxford in the 13th century: the recovery of experimental inquiry by Roger Bacon and others.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E22 – Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law20. september 202330minThomas Aquinas's treatises on law would stand for centuries as the foundation of critical inquiry in jurisprudence.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E23 – The Renaissance - Was There One?20. september 202330minFrom Petrarch in the south to Erasmus in the north, Humanistic thought collided with those seeking to defend faith.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E24 – Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them20. september 202331minEven in the time we honor with the title of Renaissance ran an undercurrent of a heady and ominous mixture of natural magic, natural science, and cruel superstition.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E25 – Francis Bacon and the Authority of Experience20. september 202330minFrancis Bacon would come to be regarded as the prophet of Newton and originator of modern experimental science.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
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