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- T1 EP.1 — From the Upanishads to Homer20 de setembro de 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.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.2 — Philosophy—Did the Greeks Invent It?20 de setembro de 202331minDiscover how and why the ancient Greeks were the first to objectify the products of their own thoughts and feelings and be willing to subject both to critical scrutiny.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.3 — Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number20 de setembro de 202330minHow can we comprehend the very integrity of the universe and our place within it, if not by way of the most abstract relations?Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.4 — What Is There?20 de setembro de 202331minHow many kinds of stuff make up the cosmos? Might everything, in fact, be reducible to one kind of thing?Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.5 — The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate20 de setembro de 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.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.6 — Herodotus and the Lamp of History20 de setembro de 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.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.7 — Socrates on the Examined Life20 de setembro de 202331minRhetoric wins arguments, but it is philosophy that shows us the way to our humanity.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.8 — Plato's Search For Truth20 de setembro de 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.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.9 — Can Virtue Be Taught?20 de setembro de 202331minIf virtue can be taught, whose virtue will it be? A look at the Socratic recognition of multiculturalism and moral relativism.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.10 — Plato's Republic—Man Writ Large20 de setembro de 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.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.11 — Hippocrates and the Science of Life20 de setembro de 202329minHippocratic medicine did much to demystify the human condition and the natural factors that affect it.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.12 — Aristotle on the Knowable20 de setembro de 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?Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.13 — Aristotle on Friendship20 de setembro de 202330minIf true friendship is possible only between equals, how equal must they be—and with respect to what?Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.14 — Aristotle on the Perfect Life20 de setembro de 202331minWhat sort of life is right for humankind, and what is it about us that makes this so?Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.15 — Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law20 de setembro de 202331minThe Stoics found in language something that would separate humanity from the animate realm, and that gave Rome a philosophy to civilize the world.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.16 — The Stoic Bridge to Christianity20 de setembro de 202329minThe Jewish Christians, Hellenized or Orthodox, defended a monotheistic source of law.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.17 — Roman Law—Making a City of the Once-Wide World20 de setembro de 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.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.18 — The Light Within—Augustine on Human Nature20 de setembro de 202330minThoughts and ideas from the fathers of the early Christian Church culminated in St. Augustine, who explores humanity's capacity for good and evil.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.19 — Islam20 de setembro de 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"?Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.20 — Secular Knowledge—The Idea of University20 de setembro de 202331minApart from trade schools devoted to medicine and law, the university as we know it did not come into being until 12th-century Paris.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.21 — The Reappearance of Experimental Science20 de setembro de 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.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.22 — Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law20 de setembro de 202330minThomas Aquinas's treatises on law would stand for centuries as the foundation of critical inquiry in jurisprudence.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.23 — The Renaissance—Was There One?20 de setembro de 202330minFrom Petrarch in the south to Erasmus in the north, Humanistic thought collided with those seeking to defend faith.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.24 — Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them20 de setembro de 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.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
- T1 EP.25 — Francis Bacon and the Authority of Experience20 de setembro de 202330minFrancis Bacon would come to be regarded as the prophet of Newton and originator of modern experimental science.Teste gratuito do canal The Great Courses Signature Collection ou comprar
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