Explore the entire western philosophical tradition in this comprehensive introduction to the topic taught by a member of the philosophy department at Oxford.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: From the Upanishads to Homer
- 02: Philosophy—Did the Greeks Invent It?
- 03: Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number
- 04: What Is There?
- 05: The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate
- 06: Herodotus and the Lamp of History
- 07: Socrates on the Examined Life
- 08: Plato's Search For Truth
- 09: Can Virtue Be Taught?
- 10: Plato's Republic—Man Writ Large
- 11: Hippocrates and the Science of Life
- 12: Aristotle on the Knowable
- 13: Aristotle on Friendship
- 14: Aristotle on the Perfect Life
- 15: Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law
- 16: The Stoic Bridge to Christianity
- 17: Roman Law—Making a City of the Once-Wide World
- 18: The Light Within—Augustine on Human Nature
- 19: Islam
- 20: Secular Knowledge—The Idea of University
- 21: The Reappearance of Experimental Science
- 22: Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law
- 23: The Renaissance—Was There One?
- 24: Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them
- 25: Francis Bacon and the Authority of Experience
- 26: Descartes and the Authority of Reason
- 27: Newton—The Saint of Science
- 28: Hobbes and the Social Machine
- 29: Locke’s Newtonian Science of the Mind
- 30: No matter? The Challenge of Materialism
- 31: Hume and the Pursuit of Happiness
- 32: Thomas Reid and the Scottish School
- 33: France and the Philosophes
- 34: The Federalist Papers and the Great Experiment
- 35: What Is Enlightenment? Kant on Freedom
- 36: Moral Science and the Natural World
- 37: Phrenology—A Science of the Mind
- 38: The Idea of Freedom
- 39: The Hegelians and History
- 40: The Aesthetic Movement—Genius
- 41: Nietzsche at the Twilight
- 42: The Liberal Tradition—J. S. Mill
- 43: Darwin and Nature’s “Purposes”
- 44: Marxism—Dead But Not Forgotten
- 45: The Freudian World
- 46: The Radical William James
- 47: William James's Pragmatism
- 48: Wittgenstein and the Discursive Turn
- 49: Alan Turing in the Forest of Wisdom
- 50: Four Theories of the Good Life
- 51: Ontology—What There "Really" Is
- 52: Philosophy of Science—The Last Word?
- 53: Philosophy of Psychology and Related Confusions
- 54: Philosophy of Mind, If There Is One
- 55: What makes a Problem "Moral"
- 56: Medicine and the Value of Life
- 57: On the Nature of Law
- 58: Justice and Just Wars
- 59: Aesthetics—Beauty Without Observers
- 60: God—Really?
Taught by
Daniel N. Robinson, Ph.D.
