The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition
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?
- Created By
Daniel Nicholas Robinson
- First Aired on
Jan 01, 2004
- Popularity: 1.0992
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- Networks
(US)
- Production
The Teaching Company
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
1 seaons till Jan 01, 2004
Last episode: God—Really?
Seasons & episodes
Total 1 seasons, 60 episodes
Lectures
Aired
Episode 1From the Upanishads to Homer31 min
Before ancient Greek civilization, the world hosted deep insights into the human condition but offered little critical reflection. Homer planted the seeds of this reflection.
Episode 2Philosophy—Did the Greeks Invent It?31 min
The ancient Greeks were the first to objectify the products of their own thought and feeling and be willing to subject both to critical scrutiny. Why?
Episode 3Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number30 min
How can we comprehend the very integrity of the universe and our place within it, if not by way of the most abstract relations?
Episode 4What Is There?31 min
How many kinds of stuff make up the cosmos? Might everything, in fact, be reducible to one kind of thing?
Episode 5The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate29 min
The ancient philosophers were only part of the rich community of thought and wonder that surrounded the world's first great dramatists and their landmark depth psychologies.
