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Overview: These lectures offer a coherent and beautifully articulated introduction to the great philosophic conversation of the ages. They cover an enormous range of seminal thinkers and perspectives, but always from the vantage point of the enduring questions: What can we know? How ought we to act? How should we order our life together? |
From the Upanishads to Homer (S1E1)1/1/2004
Philosophy—Did the Greeks Invent It? (S1E2)1/1/2004
Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number (S1E3)1/1/2004
What Is There? (S1E4)1/1/2004
The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate (S1E5)1/1/2004
Herodotus and the Lamp of History (S1E6)1/1/2004
Socrates on the Examined Life (S1E7)1/1/2004
Plato's Search For Truth (S1E8)1/1/2004
Can Virtue Be Taught? (S1E9)1/1/2004
Plato's Republic—Man Writ Large (S1E10)1/1/2004
Hippocrates and the Science of Life (S1E11)1/1/2004
Aristotle on the Knowable (S1E12)1/1/2004
Aristotle on Friendship (S1E13)1/1/2004
Aristotle on the Perfect Life (S1E14)1/1/2004
Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law (S1E15)1/1/2004
The Stoic Bridge to Christianity (S1E16)1/1/2004
Roman Law—Making a City of the Once-Wide World (S1E17)1/1/2004
The Light Within—Augustine on Human Nature (S1E18)1/1/2004
Islam (S1E19)1/1/2004
Secular Knowledge—The Idea of University (S1E20)1/1/2004
The Reappearance of Experimental Science (S1E21)1/1/2004
Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law (S1E22)1/1/2004
The Renaissance—Was There One? (S1E23)1/1/2004
Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them (S1E24)1/1/2004
Francis Bacon and the Authority of Experience (S1E25)1/1/2004
Descartes and the Authority of Reason (S1E26)1/1/2004
Newton—The Saint of Science (S1E27)1/1/2004
Hobbes and the Social Machine (S1E28)1/1/2004
Locke’s Newtonian Science of the Mind (S1E29)1/1/2004
No matter? The Challenge of Materialism (S1E30)1/1/2004
Hume and the Pursuit of Happiness (S1E31)1/1/2004
Thomas Reid and the Scottish School (S1E32)1/1/2004
France and the Philosophes (S1E33)1/1/2004
The Federalist Papers and the Great Experiment (S1E34)1/1/2004
What Is Enlightenment? Kant on Freedom (S1E35)1/1/2004
Moral Science and the Natural World (S1E36)1/1/2004
Phrenology—A Science of the Mind (S1E37)1/1/2004
The Idea of Freedom (S1E38)1/1/2004
The Hegelians and History (S1E39)1/1/2004
The Aesthetic Movement—Genius (S1E40)1/1/2004
Nietzsche at the Twilight (S1E41)1/1/2004
The Liberal Tradition—J. S. Mill (S1E42)1/1/2004
Darwin and Nature’s “Purposes” (S1E43)1/1/2004
Marxism—Dead But Not Forgotten (S1E44)1/1/2004
The Freudian World (S1E45)1/1/2004
The Radical William James (S1E46)1/1/2004
William James's Pragmatism (S1E47)1/1/2004
Wittgenstein and the Discursive Turn (S1E48)1/1/2004
Alan Turing in the Forest of Wisdom (S1E49)1/1/2004
Four Theories of the Good Life (S1E50)1/1/2004
Ontology—What There "Really" Is (S1E51)1/1/2004
Philosophy of Science—The Last Word? (S1E52)1/1/2004
Philosophy of Psychology and Related Confusions (S1E53)1/1/2004
Philosophy of Mind, If There Is One (S1E54)1/1/2004
What makes a Problem “Moral” (S1E55)1/1/2004
Medicine and the Value of Life (S1E56)1/1/2004
On the Nature of Law (S1E57)1/1/2004
Justice and Just Wars (S1E58)1/1/2004
Aesthetics—Beauty Without Observers (S1E59)1/1/2004
God—Really? (S1E60)1/1/2004 |