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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Robinson, Daniel N., 1937-     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Robinson, Daniel N., 1937-       by title:      The great ideas of p...       by call number:      DVD 190 R659g     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

The great ideas of philosophy [videorecording (DVD)] / Daniel N. Robinson. by 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. Holds:  3   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfeature DVDs DVD 190 R659g Adult Dvds-21 Days Transit Request Add Copy to MyList

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