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The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition

2004

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...

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Daniel Nicholas Robinson

Daniel Nicholas Robinson

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philosophy

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From the Upanishads to Homer

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Philosophy—Did the Greeks Invent It?

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Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number

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What Is There?

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The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate

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Herodotus and the Lamp of History

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Socrates on the Examined Life

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Plato's Search For Truth

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Can Virtue Be Taught?

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Plato's Republic—Man Writ Large

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Hippocrates and the Science of Life

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Aristotle on the Knowable

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Aristotle on Friendship

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Aristotle on the Perfect Life

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Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law

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The Stoic Bridge to Christianity

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Roman Law—Making a City of the Once-Wide World

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The Light Within—Augustine on Human Nature

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Islam

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Secular Knowledge—The Idea of University

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The Reappearance of Experimental Science

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Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law

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The Renaissance—Was There One?

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Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them

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Francis Bacon and the Authority of Experience

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Descartes and the Authority of Reason

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Newton—The Saint of Science

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Hobbes and the Social Machine

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Locke’s Newtonian Science of the Mind

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No matter? The Challenge of Materialism

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Hume and the Pursuit of Happiness

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Thomas Reid and the Scottish School

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France and the Philosophes

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The Federalist Papers and the Great Experiment

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What Is Enlightenment? Kant on Freedom

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Moral Science and the Natural World

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Phrenology—A Science of the Mind

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The Idea of Freedom

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The Hegelians and History

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The Aesthetic Movement—Genius

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Nietzsche at the Twilight

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The Liberal Tradition—J. S. Mill

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Darwin and Nature’s “Purposes”

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Marxism—Dead But Not Forgotten

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The Freudian World

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The Radical William James

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William James's Pragmatism

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Wittgenstein and the Discursive Turn

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Alan Turing in the Forest of Wisdom

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Four Theories of the Good Life

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Ontology—What There "Really" Is

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Philosophy of Science—The Last Word?

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Philosophy of Psychology and Related Confusions

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Philosophy of Mind, If There Is One

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What makes a Problem “Moral”

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Medicine and the Value of Life

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On the Nature of Law

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Justice and Just Wars

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Aesthetics—Beauty Without Observers

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God—Really?

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