The Great Ideas of Philosophy. Part 1 of 5

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Compact discs.
Part 1 of 5 parts. Contains the lectures 1-12 of 60 lectures on the history and great ideas of western philosophy.
12 lectures.
Includes lecture notes and outline, timeline, glossary, and bibliographical references.
Lecture 1: From the Upanishads to Homer -- Lecture 2: Philosophy, did the Greeks invent it? -- Lecture 3: Pythagoras and the divinity of number -- Lecture 4: What is there? -- Lecture 5: The Greek tragedians on man's fate -- Lecture 6: Herodotus and the lamp of history -- Lecture 7: Socrates on the examined life -- Lecture 8: Plato's search for truth -- Lecture 9: Can virtue be taught? -- Lecture 10: Plato's Republic, man writ large -- Lecture 11: Hippocrates and the science of life -- Lecture 12: Aristotle on the knowable.
Lectures delivered by Daniel N. Robinson, Oxford University.
Philosophy is best understood as a "great conversation" held across hundreds of years. All philosophers have the same eternal questions: What is the nature of the world and what can we know about it? What is the best kind of life? How should we govern ourselves and each other? There are no final answers, but some answers are far better than others.These lectures link the concerns of geniuses across centuries with the same fundamental questions, making their debates our own.

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