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 p...
Philosophy—Did the Greeks Invent It?
Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number
Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law
Roman Law—Making a City of the Once-Wide World
The Light Within—Augustine on Human Nature
Secular Knowledge—The Idea of University
The Reappearance of Experimental Science
Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law
Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them
Francis Bacon and the Authority of Experience
Descartes and the Authority of Reason
Locke’s Newtonian Science of the Mind
No matter? The Challenge of Materialism
The Federalist Papers and the Great Experiment
What Is Enlightenment? Kant on Freedom
Wittgenstein and the Discursive Turn
Philosophy of Science—The Last Word?
Philosophy of Psychology and Related Confusions
