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- S1 E1 - From the Upanishads to HomerSeptember 20, 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.Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E2 - Philosophy—Did the Greeks Invent It?September 20, 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.Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E3 - Pythagoras and the Divinity of NumberSeptember 20, 202330minHow can we comprehend the very integrity of the universe and our place within it, if not by way of the most abstract relations?Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E4 - What Is There?September 20, 202331minHow many kinds of stuff make up the cosmos? Might everything, in fact, be reducible to one kind of thing?Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E5 - The Greek Tragedians on Man’s FateSeptember 20, 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.Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E6 - Herodotus and the Lamp of HistorySeptember 20, 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.Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E7 - Socrates on the Examined LifeSeptember 20, 202331minRhetoric wins arguments, but it is philosophy that shows us the way to our humanity.Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E8 - Plato's Search For TruthSeptember 20, 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.Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E9 - Can Virtue Be Taught?September 20, 202331minIf virtue can be taught, whose virtue will it be? A look at the Socratic recognition of multiculturalism and moral relativism.Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E10 - Plato's Republic—Man Writ LargeSeptember 20, 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.Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E11 - Hippocrates and the Science of LifeSeptember 20, 202329minHippocratic medicine did much to demystify the human condition and the natural factors that affect it.Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E12 - Aristotle on the KnowableSeptember 20, 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?Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E13 - Aristotle on FriendshipSeptember 20, 202330minIf true friendship is possible only between equals, how equal must they be—and with respect to what?Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E14 - Aristotle on the Perfect LifeSeptember 20, 202331minWhat sort of life is right for humankind, and what is it about us that makes this so?Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E15 - Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of LawSeptember 20, 202331minThe Stoics found in language something that would separate humanity from the animate realm, and that gave Rome a philosophy to civilize the world.Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E16 - The Stoic Bridge to ChristianitySeptember 20, 202329minThe Jewish Christians, Hellenized or Orthodox, defended a monotheistic source of law.Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E17 - Roman Law—Making a City of the Once-Wide WorldSeptember 20, 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.Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E18 - The Light Within—Augustine on Human NatureSeptember 20, 202330minThoughts and ideas from the fathers of the early Christian Church culminated in St. Augustine, who explores humanity's capacity for good and evil.Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E19 - IslamSeptember 20, 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"?Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E20 - Secular Knowledge—The Idea of UniversitySeptember 20, 202331minApart from trade schools devoted to medicine and law, the university as we know it did not come into being until 12th-century Paris.Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E21 - The Reappearance of Experimental ScienceSeptember 20, 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.Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E22 - Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural LawSeptember 20, 202330minThomas Aquinas's treatises on law would stand for centuries as the foundation of critical inquiry in jurisprudence.Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E23 - The Renaissance—Was There One?September 20, 202330minFrom Petrarch in the south to Erasmus in the north, Humanistic thought collided with those seeking to defend faith.Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E24 - Let Us Burn the Witches to Save ThemSeptember 20, 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.Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
- S1 E25 - Francis Bacon and the Authority of ExperienceSeptember 20, 202330minFrancis Bacon would come to be regarded as the prophet of Newton and originator of modern experimental science.Free trial of The Great Courses Signature Collection or buy
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