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Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition
Professor Daniel N. Robinson
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? Dr. Robinson's lectures make the ideas of philosophy thrilling, passionate, human, and divine. Customers agree: "Professor Robinson explains multiple disciplines like no one since Aristotle. His scope is awesome. A professor's professor."
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Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, 2nd Edition
Professor David Zarefsky
Reasoning, tested by doubt, is argumentation. We do it, hear it, and judge it every day. We do it in our own minds, and we do it with others. What is effective reasoning? And how can it be done persuasively? This is equally a course in argument and in reasoning. This course teaches how to reason. It teaches how to persuade others that what you think is right. And it teaches how to judge and answer the arguments of others—and how they will judge yours.
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Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition
Various Professors
This course brings together 12 professors for 84 lectures on more than 60 of the most important thinkers in history. Enjoy the benefit of learning from the finest scholar-teachers active today while you study the key ideas of influential philosophers from the pre-Socratics to the Postmodernists. The curriculum is comprehensive, incisive, and thought-provoking—in short, an intellectual experience to be treasured.
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Thinking about Capitalism
Professor Jerry Z. Muller
In an era of increasing globalization, capitalism plays a dramatic role in the world economy and your everyday life. Explore the wealth of perspectives on this pervasive economic force in Thinking about Capitalism, and gain fresh insights into capitalism's history, its proponents and opponents, and its startling impact on our world. Drawing on his exceptional ability to frame each thinker's concerns within its historical context, intellectual historian and Professor Jerry Z. Muller takes you beyond economic analysis to look at capitalism's many moral, political, and cultural ramifications. These 36 engaging lectures are the perfect way to grasp the intricacies of this vital economic system.
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No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life
Professor Robert C. Solomon
The message of Existentialism, unlike that of many more obscure and academic philosophical movements, is about as simple as can be. It is that every one of us, as an individual, is responsible—responsible for what we do and responsible for whom we are. If you want to enrich your own understanding of this philosophical movement, the thinkers it brought together, and the prominent role it still plays in contemporary thought, you now have an opportunity to do so with this 24-lecture course.
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Modern Intellectual Tradition: From Descartes to Derrida
Professor Lawrence Cahoone
Explore the foundations of modern and contemporary Western approaches to reality and knowledge with The Modern Intellectual Tradition: From Descartes to Derrida. Guided by award-winning Professor Lawrence Cahoone, these 36 lectures take you on an engaging intellectual journey that encompasses prominent figures like Locke, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger—intellectual radicals whose ideas completely revolutionized how we look at and understand the world around us.
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Science and Religion
Professor Lawrence M. Principe
Science and religion—two crucial forces that helped shape Western civilization and continue to interact in our daily lives. What is the nature of their relationship? When do they conflict? And how do they influence each other in their pursuits of knowledge and truth? Science and Religion, taught by award-winning Professor Lawrence M. Principe, answers these and other pointed questions about the historical sweep and epic interaction between faith and science. These lectures reveal a surprisingly cooperative dynamic in which theologians and natural scientists share methods, ideas, and aspirations. With its clear, historical perspective, this course will help you participate more effectively in a dialogue that is as immediate and thought-provoking today as it was hundreds of years ago.
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Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement
Professor Ashton Nichols
In this course, Professor Ashton Nichols introduces us to two remarkable figures Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and a diverse group of intellectual activists, literary figures, and social reformers whose ideas, often considered radical at the time of the Civil War, would remake American society.
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Conservative Tradition
Professor Patrick N. Allitt
Discover just how pivotal a role Conservatism has played in defining our political tradition and shaping the modern West with The Conservative Tradition. Award-winning Professor Patrick N. Allitt guides you on a detailed exploration of Conservatism's lineage, principles, key figures, and impact on history. No matter where you place yourself on the ideological spectrum, these 36 lectures will undoubtedly cause you to think about this intriguing school of political thought in an entirely new way.
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Philosophy of Science
Professor Jeffrey L. Kasser
Philosopher Jeffrey Kasser launches an ambitious inquiry into what makes science science. The route to the answers is a challenging, thought-provoking quest, requiring logic, persistence, intellectual rigor, and imagination.
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American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue"
Professor Daniel N. Robinson
Just which "ideals" were affirmed by the Founders? What lessons of history were closely studied by them? American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue" is an invitation to enter this part of the American debate regarding human nature and the conditions right for its flourishing. In these carefully crafted lectures, Professor Daniel N. Robinson traces the dominant features of the early American ethos that culminated in declared independence and a constitutional form of government unheralded in political history. This is a fascinating opportunity to trace the manner in which the founding documents of the United States evolved.
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Mathematics, Philosophy, and the "Real World"
Professor Judith V. Grabiner
Throughout history, mathematics has consistently helped determine the course of Western philosophical thought. Views about
human nature, religion, truth, space, time, and more have been shaped by the ideas and practices of this vital scientific
field. Award-winning Professor Judith V. Grabiner shows you how mathematics has shaped human thought in profound and exciting
ways with Mathematics, Philosophy, and the "Real World," a 36-lecture series that explores mathematical
concepts and practices as they apply to a fascinating range of areas and experiences. In a presentation that is clear,
delightful, and filled with fascinating case histories, you focus on two areas of mathematics that are easily followed by the
nonspecialist—probability and statistics, and geometry—and which play pivotal roles in the lives of ordinary
citizens today.
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Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
Various Professors
Among shapers of contemporary thought, Friedrich Nietzsche is the most mysterious and least understood. To provide flow to Nietzsche’s often puzzling and misunderstood works, this course focuses on the ideas that preoccupied him, while tracing the profound themes that shaped his oeuvre. Is it possible that these themes form the basis of modern Humanistic culture?
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Natural Law and Human Nature
Father Joseph Koterski, S.J.
What do we mean by inalienable human rights? Is legislation the basis for those rights? These lectures explore the concept of human nature and how it is the basis for natural law and natural rights philosophy. Consider the arguments for natural law, the objections that have been raised against it, and the ways in which it remains a vital and even pervasive force in political, moral, and social life today.
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Tools of Thinking: Understanding the World Through Experience and Reason
Professor James Hall
What is the best way to prove a case, create a rule, solve a problem, justify an idea, invent a hypothesis, or evaluate an argument? In other words, what is the best way to think? In Tools of Thinking: Understanding the World through Experience and Reason, Professor James Hall turns his friendly but intellectually rigorous approach to the problem of thinking, introducing you to a wide range of proven techniques used in effective reasoning and the pursuit of knowledge.
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