The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition S1 E1 - From the Upanishads to Homermovie

The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition

The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition S1 E1 - From the Upanishads to Homer

200430 minTalk Movies

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Before ancient Greek civilization, the world hosted deep insights into the human condition but offered little critical reflection. Homer planted the seeds of this reflection.

Creator	Daniel Nicholas Robinson
Actor	Daniel Nicholas Robinson
Country	United States of America
Production	The Teaching Company

Season 1(60 episode)

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
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
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
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
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
Hume and the Pursuit of Happiness
Thomas Reid and the Scottish School
France and the Philosophes
The Federalist Papers and the Great Experiment
What Is Enlightenment? Kant on Freedom
Moral Science and the Natural World
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
Darwin and Nature’s “Purposes”
Marxism—Dead But Not Forgotten
The Freudian World
The Radical William James
William James's Pragmatism
Wittgenstein and the Discursive Turn
Alan Turing 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
What makes a Problem “Moral”
Medicine and the Value of Life
On the Nature of Law
Justice and Just Wars
Aesthetics—Beauty Without Observers
God—Really?