TY  - SOUND
AU  - Robinson,Daniel N.
ED  - Teaching Company.
TI  - The great ideas of philosophy
T2  - The great courses
SN  - 1565859812
U1  - MUK 109 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chantilly, VA
PB  - Teaching Company
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy and science
KW  - Philosophy and religion
N1  - Course guidebook includes Professor biography, course scope, lecture outline, timeline, glossary, bibliographical notes, and bibliography; Course no. 4200; Volume 1. Lecture 1; From the Upanishads to Homer; Lecture 2; Philosophy: Did the Greeks invent it?; Lecture 3; Pythagoras and the divinity of number; Lecture 4; What is there?; Lecture 5; The Greek tragedians on man's fate; Lecture 6; Herodotus and the lamp of history --; Lecture 7; Socrates on the examined life; Lecture 8; Plato's search for truth; Lecture 9; Can virtue be taught?; Lecture 10; Plato's 'Republic': Man writ large; Lecture 11; Hippocrates and the science of life; Lecture 12; Aristotle on the knowable; Volume 2. Lecture 13; Aristotle on friendship; Lecture 14; Aristotle on the perfect life; Lecture 15; Rome, the Stoics, and the rule of law; Lecture 16; The Stoic bridge to Christianity; Lecture 17; Roman law: Making a city of the once-wide world; Lecture 18; The light within: Augustine on human nature --; Lecture 19; Islam; Lecture 20; Secular knowledge: The idea of university; Lecture 21; The reappearance of experimental science; Lecture 22; Scholasticism and the theory of natural law; Lecture 23; The Renaissance: Was there one?; Lecture 24; Let us burn the witches to save them; Volume 3. Lecture 25; Francis Bacon and the authority of experience; Lecture 26; Descartes and the authority of reason; Lecture 27; Newton: The saint of science; Lecture 28; Hobbes and the social machine; Lecture 29; Locke's Newtonian science of the mind; Lecture 30; No matter? The challenge of materialism --; Lecture 31; Hume and the pursuit of happiness; Lecture 32; Thomas Reid and the Scottish school; Lecture 33; France and the philosophes; Lecture 34; 'The Federalist Papers' and the great experiment; Lecture 35; What is Enlightenment? Kant on freedom; Lecture 36; Moral science and the natural world; Volume 4. Lecture 37; Phrenology: A science of the mind; Lecture 38; The idea of freedom; Lecture 39; The Hegelians and history; Lecture 40; The aesthetic movement: Genius; Lecture 41; Nietzsche at the twilight; Lecture 42; The liberal tradition: J.S. Mill --; Lecture 43; Darwin and nature's "purposes"; Lecture 44; Marxism: Dead but not forgotten; Lecture 45; The Freudian world; Lecture 46; The radical William James; Lecture 47; William James' pragmatism; Lecture 48; Wittgenstein and the discursive turn; Volume 5. Lecture 49; Alan Turing in the forest of wisdom; Lecture 50; Four theories of the good life; Lecture 51; Ontology: What there "really" is; Lecture 52; Philosophy of science: The last word?; Lecture 53; Philosophy of psychology and related confusions; Lecture 54; Philosophy of mind, if there is one --; Lecture 55; What makes a problem "moral"; Lecture 56; Medicine and the value of life; Lecture 57; On the nature of law; Lecture 58; Justice and just wars; Lecture 59; Aesthetics: Beauty without observers; Lecture 60; God: Really?; Daniel N. Robinson, Oxford University, lecturer
N2  - Presents sixty lectures by Professor Robinson, tracing the origins of philosophy and its history across the centuries
ER  -