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The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition: 1x39
The Hegelians and History
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?
Seasons and episodes

1 - 1 : From the Upanishads to Homer
Jan 01, 20041 - 2 : Philosophy—Did the Greeks Invent It?
Jan 01, 20041 - 3 : Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number
Jan 01, 20041 - 4 : What Is There?
Jan 01, 20041 - 5 : The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate
Jan 01, 20041 - 6 : Herodotus and the Lamp of History
Jan 01, 20041 - 7 : Socrates on the Examined Life
Jan 01, 20041 - 8 : Plato's Search For Truth
Jan 01, 20041 - 9 : Can Virtue Be Taught?
Jan 01, 20041 - 10 : Plato's Republic—Man Writ Large
Jan 01, 20041 - 11 : Hippocrates and the Science of Life
Jan 01, 20041 - 12 : Aristotle on the Knowable
Jan 01, 20041 - 13 : Aristotle on Friendship
Jan 01, 20041 - 14 : Aristotle on the Perfect Life
Jan 01, 20041 - 15 : Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law
Jan 01, 20041 - 16 : The Stoic Bridge to Christianity
Jan 01, 20041 - 18 : The Light Within—Augustine on Human Nature
Jan 01, 20041 - 19 : Islam
Jan 01, 20041 - 20 : Secular Knowledge—The Idea of University
Jan 01, 20041 - 21 : The Reappearance of Experimental Science
Jan 01, 20041 - 22 : Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law
Jan 01, 20041 - 23 : The Renaissance—Was There One?
Jan 01, 20041 - 24 : Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them
Jan 01, 20041 - 26 : Descartes and the Authority of Reason
Jan 01, 20041 - 27 : Newton—The Saint of Science
Jan 01, 20041 - 28 : Hobbes and the Social Machine
Jan 01, 20041 - 29 : Locke’s Newtonian Science of the Mind
Jan 01, 20041 - 30 : No matter? The Challenge of Materialism
Jan 01, 20041 - 31 : Hume and the Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 01, 20041 - 32 : Thomas Reid and the Scottish School
Jan 01, 20041 - 33 : France and the Philosophes
Jan 01, 20041 - 35 : What Is Enlightenment? Kant on Freedom
Jan 01, 20041 - 36 : Moral Science and the Natural World
Jan 01, 20041 - 37 : Phrenology—A Science of the Mind
Jan 01, 20041 - 38 : The Idea of Freedom
Jan 01, 20041 - 39 : The Hegelians and History
Jan 01, 20041 - 40 : The Aesthetic Movement—Genius
Jan 01, 20041 - 41 : Nietzsche at the Twilight
Jan 01, 20041 - 42 : The Liberal Tradition—J. S. Mill
Jan 01, 20041 - 43 : Darwin and Nature’s “Purposes”
Jan 01, 20041 - 44 : Marxism—Dead But Not Forgotten
Jan 01, 20041 - 45 : The Freudian World
Jan 01, 20041 - 46 : The Radical William James
Jan 01, 20041 - 47 : William James's Pragmatism
Jan 01, 20041 - 48 : Wittgenstein and the Discursive Turn
Jan 01, 20041 - 49 : Alan Turing in the Forest of Wisdom
Jan 01, 20041 - 50 : Four Theories of the Good Life
Jan 01, 20041 - 51 : Ontology—What There "Really" Is
Jan 01, 20041 - 52 : Philosophy of Science—The Last Word?
Jan 01, 20041 - 54 : Philosophy of Mind, If There Is One
Jan 01, 20041 - 55 : What makes a Problem “Moral”
Jan 01, 20041 - 56 : Medicine and the Value of Life
Jan 01, 20041 - 57 : On the Nature of Law
Jan 01, 20041 - 58 : Justice and Just Wars
Jan 01, 20041 - 59 : Aesthetics—Beauty Without Observers
Jan 01, 20041 - 60 : God—Really?
Jan 01, 2004Synopsis
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?
Title | The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition |
First Air Date | Jan 01, 2004 |
Last Air Date | Jan 01, 2004 |
Episodes | 60 |
Seasons | 1 |
Companies | The Teaching Company |
Keywords | philosophy |
