Robinson, Daniel N.,  1937- <br/><br/>
The great ideas of philosophy / 
Daniel N. Robinson. 
 - 2nd ed. 
 - Chantilly, VA :  Teaching Company,  c2004 
 - viii, 329p. :  ill. ;  19 cm.  Includes DVD 
 - The great courses. .
 - Great courses (Course guidebook) .
<br/><br/> Course guidebook includes Professor biography, course scope, lecture outline, timeline, glossary, bibliographical notes, and bibliography.  Course no. 4200 
<br/><br/> From the Upanishads to Homer ;  Philosophy: Did the Greeks invent it? ;  Pythagoras and the divinity of number ;  What is there? ;  The Greek tragedians on man's fate ;  Herodotus and the lamp of history --  Socrates on the examined life ;  Plato's search for truth ;  Can virtue be taught? ;  Plato's 'Republic': Man writ large ;  Hippocrates and the science of life ;  Aristotle on the knowable.  Volume 1. Lecture 1.  Lecture 2.  Lecture 3.  Lecture 4.  Lecture 5.  Lecture 6.  Lecture 7.  Lecture 8.  Lecture 9.  Lecture 10.  Lecture 11.  Lecture 12.  Aristotle on friendship ;  Aristotle on the perfect life ;  Rome, the Stoics, and the rule of law ;  The Stoic bridge to Christianity ;  Roman law: Making a city of the once-wide world ;  The light within: Augustine on human nature --  Islam ;  Secular knowledge: The idea of university ;  The reappearance of experimental science ;  Scholasticism and the theory of natural law ;  The Renaissance: Was there one? ;  Let us burn the witches to save them.  Volume 2. Lecture 13.  Lecture 14.  Lecture 15.  Lecture 16.  Lecture 17.  Lecture 18.  Lecture 19.  Lecture 20.  Lecture 21.  Lecture 22.  Lecture 23.  Lecture 24.  Francis Bacon and the authority of experience ;  Descartes and the authority of reason ;  Newton: The saint of science ;  Hobbes and the social machine ;  Locke's Newtonian science of the mind ;  No matter? The challenge of materialism --  Hume and the pursuit of happiness ;  Thomas Reid and the Scottish school ;  France and the philosophes ;  'The Federalist Papers' and the great experiment ;  What is Enlightenment? Kant on freedom ;  Moral science and the natural world.  Volume 3. Lecture 25.  Lecture 26.  Lecture 27.  Lecture 28.  Lecture 29.  Lecture 30.  Lecture 31.  Lecture 32.  Lecture 33.  Lecture 34.  Lecture 35.  Lecture 36.  Phrenology: A science of the mind ;  The idea of freedom ;  The Hegelians and history ;  The aesthetic movement: Genius ;  Nietzsche at the twilight ;  The liberal tradition: J.S. Mill --  Darwin and nature's "purposes" ;  Marxism: Dead but not forgotten ;  The Freudian world ;  The radical William James ;  William James' pragmatism ;  Wittgenstein and the discursive turn.  Volume 4. Lecture 37.  Lecture 38.  Lecture 39.  Lecture 40.  Lecture 41.  Lecture 42.  Lecture 43.  Lecture 44.  Lecture 45.  Lecture 46  Lecture 47.  Lecture 48.  Alan Turing in the forest of wisdom ;  Four theories of the good life ;  Ontology: What there "really" is ;  Philosophy of science: The last word? ;  Philosophy of psychology and related confusions ;  Philosophy of mind, if there is one --  What makes a problem "moral" ;  Medicine and the value of life ;  On the nature of law ;  Justice and just wars ;  Aesthetics: Beauty without observers ;  God: Really?  Volume 5. Lecture 49.  Lecture 50.  Lecture 51.  Lecture 52.  Lecture 53.  Lecture 54.  Lecture 55.  Lecture 56.  Lecture 57.  Lecture 58.  Lecture 59.  Lecture 60. 
<br/><br/>Daniel N. Robinson, Oxford University, lecturer. 
<br/><br/> Presents sixty lectures by Professor Robinson, tracing the origins of philosophy and its history across the centuries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1565859812 9781565859814 
<br/><br/><label>Publisher. No.: </label>4200  Teaching Company 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005583716 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Philosophy--History.<br/>Philosophy and science.<br/>Philosophy and religion.<br/>Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>MUK 109  / ROB