The Great Ideas of Philosophy taught by Professor Daniel N. Robinson

The Great Ideas of Philosophy taught by Professor Daniel N. Robinson, Oxford University and Columbia University Mp3 32-80Kbs | 50 lectures 30 min each | 10 files ~46 Mb each Professor Robinson is one of those rare teachers whose tremendous respect for his audience, vast expertise, relish for language, and engaging rhetorical flair create an exceptionally enjoyable learning environment. Dr. Robinson’s lectures make the ideas of philosophy thrilling, passionate, human, and divine. Indulge in the ideas that have captivated humankind for centuries and inspired great advances in Western civilization. After hearing Professor Robinson’s exposition, you may never view philosophy, or the world, in quite the same way again. Section I - Ancient Foundations Lecture 1: From the Upanishads to Homer Lecture 2: What Is It and Did the Greeks Invent It? Lecture 3: Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number Lecture 4: What Is There? The Pre-Socratics and the Ultimate Stuff of the Universe Lecture 5: Is Medea Guilty as Charged? The Greek Tragedians on Man's Fate Lecture 6: Know Thyself—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: Mind and Body—Hippocrates and the Science of Life Lecture 12: Aristotle on the Knowable Lecture 13: Aristotle on Friendship Lecture 14: Aristotle on the Perfect Life Lecture 15: Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law Section II - Early Modern Thought Lecture 16: The Stoic Bridge to Christianity Lecture 17: Roman Law—Making a City of the Once-Wide World Lecture 18: The Light Within—Augustine's Idea of Human Nature Lecture 19: Islam Section III - From Feudalism to Urbanity: Two Renaissances Lecture 20: Secular Knowledge—The Idea of the University Lecture 21: Facts and Values—The Reappearance of Experimental Science Lecture 22: Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law Lecture 23: Erasmus and Luther—Humanism and Fundamentalism Lecture 24: Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them... Section IV - The Dawn of the New: The Foundations of the Scientific World View Lecture 25: Bacon's "Great Instauration"—The Authority of Experience Lecture 26: Descartes and the Skeptical Mind—The Authority of Reason Lecture 27: Newton—The Saint of Science Lecture 28: The Social Machine—Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and the Science of Statecraft Lecture 29: A Newtonian Science of the Mind—John Locke on Human Understanding Section V - Enlightenment Lecture 30: No matter? Never mind! Berkeley and the Challenge of Materialism Lecture 31: Skepticism and the Pursuit of Happiness—David Hume Lecture 32: Common Sense and Divine Providence—Thomas Reid and the Scottish School Lecture 33: The Play of Mind and the Salons of Dissent—France and the Philosophes Lecture 34: The Federalist Papers and the Great Experiment Lecture 35: What Is Enlightenment? Kant on Freedom and the Forms of Knowledge Lecture 36: Moral Science and the Natural World—Kant and the Moral Imperative Lecture 37: The Phrenologists—Early Sciences of Mind and Brain Lecture 38: The Idea of Freedom Section VI - Romanticism Lecture 39: Human History as the Unfolding of the Ideal—The Hegelians Lecture 40: The World as the Gift of Genius—The Aesthetic Movement Lecture 41: Dark Corners of the Soul—Nietzsche at the Twilight Section VII - Science and Scientism Lecture 42: The Liberal Tradition: John Stuart Mill on Liberty Lecture 43: Survival of the Fittest—Darwin and the (Blind) Purposes of Nature Lecture 44: Marxism: Dead but Not Forgotten Lecture 45: The Freudian World Lecture 46: Yankee Thought in a World of Mystery—The Radical William James Lecture 47: William James's Pragmatism Lecture 48: Helping the Fly Out of the Bottle—Wittgenstein and the Discursive Turn Lecture 49: Breaking the Code—Alan Turing in the Forest of Wisdom Lecture 50: Four Theories of the Good Life—From Saints to Heroes to Brains in Vats All archives are stand alone and include 5 lectures each. Enjoy! Lectures 1-5 Lectures 6-10 Lectures 11-15 Lectures 16-20 Lectures 21-25 Lectures 26-30 Lectures 31-35 Lectures 36-40 Lectures 41-45 Lectures 46-50