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Answers to long- and still-asked questions are examined and explored through the greatest thinkers of all time. Learn about debates and their outcomes, and the links between the thoughts of the following influential philosophers: Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Erasmus, Bacon, Descartes, Newton, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Mill, Darwin, Marx, Freud, James, Wittgenstein, and Turing, plus many more.
What You'll Find in Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition
1. From the Upanishads to Homer
2. Philosophy--Did the Greeks Invent It?
3. Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number
4. What Is There?
5. The Greek Tragedians on Man's Fate
6. Herodotus and the Lamp of History
(about 180 minutes)
7. Socrates on the Examined Life
8. Plato's Search for Truth
9. Can Virtue Be Taught?
10. Plato's Republic--Man Writ Large
11. Hippocrates and the Science of Life
12. Aristotle on the Knowable
(about 180 minutes)
13. Aristotle on Friendship
14. Aristotle on the Perfect Life
15. Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law
16. The Stoic Bridge to Christianity
17. Roman Law--Making a City of the Once-Wide World
18. The Light Within--Augustine on Human Nature
(about 180 minutes)
19. Islam
20. Secular Knowledge--The Idea of University
21. The Reappearance of Experimental Science
22. Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law
23. The Renaissance--Was There One?
24. Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them
(about 180 minutes)
25. Francis Bacon and the Authority of Experience
26. Descartes and the Authority of Reason
27. Newton--The Saint of Science
28. Hobbes and the Social Machine
29. Locke's Newtonian Science of the Mind
30. No matter? Never mind! The Challenge of Materialism
(about 180 minutes)
31. Hume and the Pursuit of Happiness
32. Thomas Reid and the Scottish School
33. France and the Philosophes
34. The Federalist Papers and the Great Experiment
35. What Is Enlightenment? Kant on Freedom
36. Moral Science and the Natural World
(about 180 minutes)
37. Phrenology--A Science of the Mind
38. The Idea of Freedom
39. The Hegelians and History
40. The Aesthetic Movement--Genius
41. Nietzsche at the Twilight
42. The Liberal Tradition--J.S. Mill
(about 180 minutes)
43. Darwin and Nature's "Purposes"
44. Marxism--Dead but Not Forgotten
45. The Freudian World
46. The Radical William James
47. William James's Pragmatism
48. Wittgenstein and the Discursive Turn
(about 180 minutes)
49. Alan Turing in the Forest of Wisdom
50. Four Theories of the Good Life
51. Ontology--What There "Really" Is
52. Philosophy of Science--The Last Word?
53. Philosophy of Psychology and Related Confusions
54. Philosophy of Mind, If There Is One
(about 180 minutes)
55. What makes a Problem "Moral"
56. Medicine and the Value of Life
57. On the Nature of Law
58. Justice and Just Wars
59. Aesthetics--Beauty Without Observers
60. God--Really?
(about 180 minutes)
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Very good general introduction to philosophy. However, there is so much information that it may take more than just one viewing to appreciate the series. In my opinion, it is taught at the graduate level so if you have absolutely no base knowledge of philosophy, it may be helpful to read some primers!
Overall, the entire series is very interesting and held my attention. If you have any interest at all in philosophy, you'll likely enjoy these DVDs.
