Name: The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition
Released: 2004-12-27T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Daniel N. Robinson

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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 point of the enduring questions: What can we know? How ought we to act? How should we order our life together?

Documentary · 2004 · 31 phút

Diễn viên chính Daniel N. Robinson

TẬP 1

From the Upanishads to Homer

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.

30 phút · 27 thg 12, 2004
TẬP 2

Philosophy—Did the Greeks Invent It?

Discover how and why the ancient Greeks were the first to objectify the products of their own thoughts and feelings and be willing to subject both to critical scrutiny.

30 phút · 27 thg 12, 2004
TẬP 3

Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number

How can we comprehend the very integrity of the universe and our place within it, if not by way of the most abstract relations?

29 phút · 27 thg 12, 2004
TẬP 4

What Is There?

How many kinds of stuff make up the cosmos? Might everything, in fact, be reducible to one kind of thing?

30 phút · 27 thg 12, 2004
TẬP 5

The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate

The ancient philosophers were only part of the rich community of thought and wonder that surrounded the world's first great dramatists and their landmark depth psychologies.

29 phút · 27 thg 12, 2004
TẬP 6

Herodotus and the Lamp of History

Can history actually teach us? Herodotus looked at what he took to be certain universal human aspirations and deficiencies and concluded that indeed history could.

29 phút · 27 thg 12, 2004

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