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The great ideas of philosophy [videorecording] / [taught by] Daniel N. Robinson.

Robinson, Daniel N., 1937- (Author). Teaching Company (Added Author).

Summary:

Sixty lectures by Daniel N. Robinson tracing the abiding issues of philosophy across the centurie.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1565859820 :
  • ISBN: 9781565859821
  • Physical Description: 10 videodiscs (approximately 1800 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 5 course guidebooks (22 cm.)
  • Edition: Second edition.
  • Publisher: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., [2004]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
pt. 1. disc 1. 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 -- disc 2. 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.
pt. 2. disc 3. 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 -- disc 4. 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.
pt. 3. disc 5. 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 -- disc 6. 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.
pt. 4. disc 7. 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 -- disc 8. 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.
pt. 5. disc 9. 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 -- disc 10. What makes a problem "moral" -- Medicine and the values of life -- On the nature of law -- Justice and just wars -- Aesthetics, beauty without observers -- God, really?
Participant or Performer Note:
Daniel N. Robinson, lecturer.
System Details Note:
DVD, region 1.
Subject: Philosophy > History
Topic Heading: DVD.
Philosophy. KCC.

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at Sage Library System.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Part Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Status Due Date Courses
Baker County Library 109 GRE DVD 2004 - v. 1 (Text) Vol. 1 37814002556109 VIDEO NON-FICTION Available -
Baker County Library 109 GRE DVD 2004 - v. 2 (Text) Vol. 2 37814002556042 VIDEO NON-FICTION Available -
Klamath Community College B72 .G73 C68 2004 (Text) Guidebook B247500KCL Main Collection Available -


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