Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition Part 3 of 7

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Eighty-four lectures (30 min. each) on 14 discs.
Accompanying course guidebook includes a glossary, biographical notes, and a bibliography.
Classical origins. Disc 1. Lectures 1-6. Introduction / D.M. Staloff ; The Pre-Socratics, physics and metaphysics / Louis Markos ; The Sophists and social science / Jeremy Adams ; Plato, metaphysics / Phillip Cary ; Plato, politics ; Plato, psychology / D.G. Dalton -- Disc 2. Lectures 7-12. Aristotle, metaphysics / Phillip Cary ; Aristotle, politics / Dennis G. Dalton ; Aristotle, ethics / Phillip Cary ; Stoicism and Epicureanism ; Roman eclecticism, Cicero and Polybius ; Roman skepticism, Sextus Empiricus / Jeremy Adams -- The Christian age. Disc. 3. Lectures 13-18. Introduction ; Job and the problem of suffering ; The Hebrew Bible and covenantal history ; The Synoptic Gospels, the historical Jesus and the Kingdom of God ; Paul, justification by faith ; Plotinus and Neo-Platonism / Phillip Cary -- Disc 4. Lectures 19-24. Augustine, grace and free will / Phillip Cary ; Aquinas and Christian Aristotelianism ; Universals in medieval thought / Jeremy Adams ; Mysticism and Meister ; Luther, law and gospel ; Calvin and Protestantism / Phillip Cary.
From the Renaissance to the age of reason. Disc 5. Lectures 25-30. Introduction ; Machiavelli and the origins of political science ; More's Utopianism / D.M. Staloff ; Erasmus against enthusiasm / Jeremy Adams ; Galileo and the new astronomy ; Bacon's new organon and the new science / A.C. Kors -- Disc 6. Lectures 31-36. Descartes, the method of modern philosophy / A.C. Kors ; Hobbes, politics and the state of nature / D.G. Dalton ; Spinoza, Rationalism and the reverence of being / D.M. Staloff ; Pascal, Skepticism and Jansenism ; Bayle, Skepticism and Calvinism ; Newton and enlightened science / A.C. Kors -- The Enlightenment and its critics. Disc 7. Lectures 37-42. Introduction / A.C. Kors ; Locke, politics / D.G. Dalton ; Locke, the revolution of knowledge / A.C. Kors ; Vico and the new science of history / D.M. Staloff ; Montesquieu and political thought / A.C. Kors ; The worldly philosophy of Bernard Mandeville / D.M. Staloff -- Disc 8. Lectures 43-48. Bishop Berkeley, Idealism and critique of the Enlightenment ; Hume's Epistemology ; Hume's theory of morality / D.M. Staloff ; Hume's natural religion / A.C. Kors ; Adam Smith and the origins of political economy / Jeremy Shearmur ; Rousseau's dissent / A.C. Kors .
The Age of Ideology. Disc 9. Lectures 49-54. Introduction / D.M. Staloff ; Kant's "Copernican Revolution" ; Kant's moral theory / R.H. Kane ; Burke, the origins of conservatism / Jeremy Shearmur ; Hegel, history and historicism ; Marx, historical materialism / D.M. Staloff -- Disc 10. Lectures 55-60. Marx, on alienation / D.G. Dalton ; Mill's Utilitarianism / R.C. Solomon ; Kierkegaard and the leap of faith / Phillip Cary ; Schopenhauer, the world as will and idea / K.M. Higgins ; Nietzsche, perspectivism and the will to power / R.C. Solomon ; Nietzsche, the death of God, morality, and self-creation / K.M. Higgins -- Modernism and the age of analysis. Disc 11. Lectures 61-66. Introduction ; Jame's Pragmatism / D.M. Staloff ; Freud's psychology of human nature ; Freud's discontents / D.G. Dalton ; A.J. Ayer and Logical Positivism ; Max Weber and legitimate authority / D.M. Staloff -- Disc 12. Lectures 67-72. Husserl and Phenomenology / R.C. Solomon ; Dewey's critique of traditional philosophy / D.M. Staloff ; Heidegger, Dasein and existenz / R.C. Solomon ; Wittgenstein and language analysis / M.W. Risjord; The Frankfurt school / Douglas Kellner ; Structuralism, Saussure and Lévi-Strauss / Louis Markos.
The crisis of modernity. Disc 13. Lectures 73-78. Introduction / D.M. Staloff ; Hayek and the critique of central planning ; Popper, the open society and the philosophy of science ; Kuhn's paradigm paradigm / Jeremy Shearmur ; Quine, ontological relativism / D.M. Staloff ; Habermas, critical theory and communicative action / Douglas Kellner-- Disc 14. Lectures 79-84. Rawls's theory of justice / D.M. Staloff ; Derrida and deconstruction / Louis Markos ; Rorty's neo-pragmatism ; Gouldner, ideology and the "new" class / D.M. Staloff ; MacIntyre, the rationality of traditions / Phillip Cary ; Nozick's defense of libertarianism / Jeremy Shearmur.
Lectures by Darren M. Staloff, Louis Markos, Jeremy Adams, Phillip Cary, Dennis G. Dalton, Alan Charles Kors, Jeremy Shearmur, Kathleen M. Higgins, Robert Hilary Kane, Robert C. Solomon, Douglas Kellner, and Mark W. Risjord.
Presents lectures by Darren Staloff ... [et al.]. These lectures are based on the seminar course at Columbia University on Western intellectual history augmented by additional lectures by selected "guest" lecturers. Gives a guided tour through 3,000 years of Western thought.
DVD, region 1.

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