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Author(s): Professor Daniel N. Robinson

Category: Audio Books

Date: 2004

Publisher: Teaching Company

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1565859812

ISBN-13: 9781565859814

Format: MP3

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Humanity left childhood and entered the troubled but productive world when it started to criticize its own certainties and weigh the worthiness of its most secure beliefs. Thus began that "Long Debate" on the nature of truth, the scale of real values, the life one should aspire to live, the character of justice, the sources of law, the terms of civic and political life���the good, the better, the best. The debate continues, and one remains aloof to it at a very heavy price, for "the unexamined life is not worth living." This course of 60 lectures gives the student a sure guide and interpreter as the major themes within the Long Debate are presented and considered. The persistent themes are understood as problems: [list][*]The problem of knowledge, arising from concerns as to how or whether we come to know anything, and are justified in our belief that this knowledge is valid and sound [*]The problem of conduct, arising from the recognition that our actions, too, require some sort of justification in light of our moral and ethical sensibilities���or lack of them [*]The problem of governance, which includes an understanding of sources of law and its binding nature. [/list]The great speculators of history have exhausted themselves on these problems and have bequeathed to us a storehouse of insights, some so utterly persuasive as to have shaped thought itself. In these coherent and beautifully articulated lectures you will hear Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics and Epicureans, the Scholastic philosophers and the leaders of Renaissance thought. In addition, you will learn about the architects of the Age of Newton and the Enlightenment that followed in its wake���all this, as well as Romanticism and Continental thought, Nietzsche and Darwin, Freud and William James. This course is a veritable banquet of enriching reflection on mental life and the acts of humanity that proceed from it: the plans and purposes, the values and beliefs, the possibilities and vulnerabilities. [b]Some of What You Will Learn[/b] In these lectures you will: [list][*]Explore three basic philosophical questions: What can I know? How should I behave? Is this tribe or polis able to preserve our knowledge, protect our interests, lead us to a more meaningful life? [*]Understand why we should aspire to moral excellence through habitual striving and a devotion to self-perfection, and how we might attain a flourishing form of life. [*]Explore the four assessments of what constitutes the good life. These have come and gone over the course of time in many forms. [/list]The titles of the lectures in this course reveal its scope. In every lecture, there is substance that can change your view of the world and its history. You will see the creation of rational thought. Dr. Daniel N. Robinson addresses in one lecture why such a rich tapestry of thought would begin in ancient Greece and why, weaved together during the lives of three specific men, it would never be equaled. Most famous was Socrates, the pagan philosopher whom St. Augustine would revere because he was willing to die for truth. Socrates's student, Plato, wrote so powerfully on almost every issue in philosophy that Alfred North Whitehead later commented that all of Western philosophy was a footnote to Plato. (But British philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell described Plato as a "garden-variety" Fascist.) [hide=Course Lecture Titles]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 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 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 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 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? The Challenge of Materialism 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 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 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 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 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? [/hide]

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