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The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition
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- S. 1 ÉP. 1 - From the Upanishads to Homer20 septembre 202331 minBefore ancient Greek civilization, the world hosted deep insights into the human condition but offered little critical reflection. Homer planted the seeds of this reflection.Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 2 - Philosophy - Did the Greeks Invent It?20 septembre 202331 minThe 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?Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 3 - Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number20 septembre 202330 minHow can we comprehend the very integrity of the universe and our place within it, if not by way of the most abstract relations?Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 4 - What Is There?20 septembre 202331 minHow many kinds of stuff make up the cosmos? Might everything, in fact, be reducible to one kind of thing?Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 5 - The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate20 septembre 202329 minThe 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.Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 6 - Herodotus and the Lamp of History20 septembre 202330 minCan history actually teach us? Herodotus looked at what he took to be certain universal human aspirations and deficiencies and concluded that indeed history could.Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 7 - Socrates on the Examined Life20 septembre 202331 minRhetoric wins arguments, but it is philosophy that shows us the way to our humanity.Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 8 - Plato's Search For Truth20 septembre 202331 minIf 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.Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 9 - Can Virtue Be Taught?20 septembre 202331 minIf virtue can be taught, whose virtue will it be? A look at the Socratic recognition of multiculturalism and moral relativism.Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 10 - Plato's Republic - Man Writ Large20 septembre 202331 minThis 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.Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 11 - Hippocrates and the Science of Life20 septembre 202329 minHippocratic medicine did much to demystify the human condition and the natural factors that affect it.Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 12 - Aristotle on the Knowable20 septembre 202331 minSmith 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?Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 13 - Aristotle on Friendship20 septembre 202330 minIf true friendship is possible only between equals, how equal must they be—and with respect to what?Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 14 - Aristotle on the Perfect Life20 septembre 202331 minWhat sort of life is right for humankind, and what is it about us that makes this so?Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 15 - Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law20 septembre 202331 minThe Stoics found in language something that would separate humanity from the animate realm, and that gave Rome a philosophy to civilize the world.Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 16 - The Stoic Bridge to Christianity20 septembre 202329 minThe Jewish Christians, Hellenized or Orthodox, defended a monotheistic source of law.Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 17 - Roman Law - Making a City of the Once-Wide World20 septembre 202329 minRoman development of law based on a conception of nature, and of human nature, is one of the signal achievements in the history of civilization.Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 18 - The Light Within - Augustine on Human Nature20 septembre 202330 minThoughts and ideas from the fathers of the early Christian Church culminated in St. Augustine, who explores humanity's capacity for good and evil.Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 19 - Islam20 septembre 202331 minWhat 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"?Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 20 - Secular Knowledge - The Idea of University20 septembre 202331 minApart from trade schools devoted to medicine and law, the university as we know it did not come into being until 12th-century Paris.Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 21 - The Reappearance of Experimental Science20 septembre 202330 minThere were really two great renaissances. The first occurred at Oxford in the 13th century: the recovery of experimental inquiry by Roger Bacon and others.Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 22 - Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law20 septembre 202330 minThomas Aquinas's treatises on law would stand for centuries as the foundation of critical inquiry in jurisprudence.Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 23 - The Renaissance - Was There One?20 septembre 202330 minFrom Petrarch in the south to Erasmus in the north, Humanistic thought collided with those seeking to defend faith.Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 24 - Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them20 septembre 202331 minEven 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.Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
- S. 1 ÉP. 25 - Francis Bacon and the Authority of Experience20 septembre 202330 minFrancis Bacon would come to be regarded as the prophet of Newton and originator of modern experimental science.Abonnez-vous à The Great Courses Signature Collection pour $7.99/mois ou achetez
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