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Herodotus.
Socrates.
Hippocrates
Plato.
Aristotle.
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
Locke, John, 1632-1704.
Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
Hume, David, 1711-1776.
Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796.
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
James, William, 1842-1910.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Philosophy -- History.
Philosophers.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Philosophy and science.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Theology.
Ontology.
Ethics.
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Robinson, Daniel N., 1937-
Herodotus.
Socrates.
Hippocrates
Plato.
Aristotle.
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
Locke, John, 1632-1704.
Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
Hume, David, 1711-1776.
Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796.
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
James, William, 1842-1910.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Philosophy -- History.
Philosophers.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Philosophy and science.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Theology.
Ontology.
Ethics.
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The great ideas of philosophy [videorecording (DVD)] / Daniel N. Robinson.
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Robinson, Daniel N., 1937-
Teaching Co., c2004.
Call #:
DVD 190 R659g
Subjects
Herodotus.
Socrates.
Hippocrates
Plato.
Aristotle.
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
Locke, John, 1632-1704.
Hobbes, Thomas,
1588-1679
.
Hume, David, 1711-1776.
Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796.
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
James, William, 1842-1910.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Philosophy -- History.
Philosophers.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Philosophy and science.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Theology.
Ontology.
Ethics.
Series
Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history.
Great courses (DVD).
ISBN:
1565859820
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)] /
Edition:
2nd ed.
Description:
10 videodiscs (1800 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (329 p. ; 22 cm.)
Notes:
Home use only.
Contents:
Volume 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 -- 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. Islam -- 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 -- 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 -- Frances and the philosophes -- The federalist papers and the great experiment -- What is Enlightenment? Kant on freedom -- Moral science and the natural world.
Volume 2. 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 -- Disc 9. Alan Turning 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?
Production:
[Taught by] Professor Daniel N. Robinson.
Performers:
Daniel N. Robinson, lecturer.
Summary:
Sixty lectures by Daniel N. Robinson tracing the abiding issues of philosophy across the centuries.
Genre:
Filmed lectures.
Educational films.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Teaching Company.
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3
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