

The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition
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S. 1 ÉP. 1 - From the Upanishads to Homer
20 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.Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 2 - Philosophy—Did the Greeks Invent It?
20 septembre 202331 minDiscover 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.Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 3 - Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number
20 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?Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 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?Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 5 - The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate
20 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.Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 6 - Herodotus and the Lamp of History
20 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.Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 7 - Socrates on the Examined Life
20 septembre 202331 minRhetoric wins arguments, but it is philosophy that shows us the way to our humanity.Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 8 - Plato's Search For Truth
20 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.Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 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.Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 10 - Plato's Republic—Man Writ Large
20 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.Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 11 - Hippocrates and the Science of Life
20 septembre 202329 minHippocratic medicine did much to demystify the human condition and the natural factors that affect it.Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 12 - Aristotle on the Knowable
20 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?Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 13 - Aristotle on Friendship
20 septembre 202331 minIf true friendship is possible only between equals, how equal must they be—and with respect to what?Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 14 - Aristotle on the Perfect Life
20 septembre 202331 minWhat sort of life is right for humankind, and what is it about us that makes this so?Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 15 - Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law
20 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.Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 16 - The Stoic Bridge to Christianity
20 septembre 202329 minThe Jewish Christians, Hellenized or Orthodox, defended a monotheistic source of law.Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 17 - Roman Law—Making a City of the Once-Wide World
20 septembre 202330 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.Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 18 - The Light Within—Augustine on Human Nature
20 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.Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 19 - Islam
20 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"?Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 20 - Secular Knowledge—The Idea of University
20 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.Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 21 - The Reappearance of Experimental Science
20 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.Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 22 - Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law
20 septembre 202330 minThomas Aquinas's treatises on law would stand for centuries as the foundation of critical inquiry in jurisprudence.Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 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.Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 24 - Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them
20 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.Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheterS. 1 ÉP. 25 - Francis Bacon and the Authority of Experience
20 septembre 202330 minFrancis Bacon would come to be regarded as the prophet of Newton and originator of modern experimental science.Démarrer un essai gratuit de The Great Courses Signature Collection ou acheter