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From the CD - 3rd ed.
pt. 1. Classical origins: lecture 1. Introduction ; lecture 2. The Pre-Socratics : physics and metaphysics ; lecture 3. The Sophists and social science ; lecture 4. Plato : metaphysics ; lecture 5. Plato : politics ; lecture 6. Plato : psychology ; lecture 7. Aristotle : metaphysics ; lecture 8. Aristotle : politics ; lecture 9. Aristotle : ethics ; lecture 10. Stoicism and epicureanism ; lecture 11. Roman eclecticism : Cicero and Polybius ; lecture 12. Roman skepticism : Sextus Empiricus
pt. 2. Christian age: lecture 13. Introduction ; lecture 14. Job and the problem of suffering ; lecture 15. The Hebrew Bible and covenantal history ; lecture 16. The synoptic Gospels : the historical Jesus and the kingdom of God ; lecture 17. Paul : justification by faith ; lecture 18. Plotinus and Neo-Platonism ; lecture 19. Augustine : grace and free will ; lecture 20. Aquinas and Christian Aristotelianism ; lecture 21. Universals in Medieval thought
lecture 22. Mysticism and Meister Eckhart ; lecture 23. Luther : law and gospel ; lecture 24. Calvin and Protestantism
pt. 3. From the Renaissance to the Age of Reason: lecture 25. Introduction ; lecture 26. Machiavelli and the origins of political science ; lecture 27. More's utopianism ; lecture 28. Erasmus against enthusiasm ; lecture 29. Galileo and the new astronomy ; lecture 30. Bacon's New Organon and the new science ; lecture 31. Descartes : the method of modern philosophy ; lecture 32.
Hobbes : politics and the state of nature ; lecture 33. Spinoza : rationalism and the reverence for being ; lecture 34. Pascal : skepticism and Jansenism ; lecture 35. Bayle : skepticism and Calvinism ; lecture 36. Newton and enlightened science
pt. 4. Enlightenment and its critics: lecture 37. Introduction ; lecture 38. Locke : politics ; lecture 39. Locke : the revolution in knowledge ; lecture 40. Vico and the new science of history ; lecture 41. Montesquieu and political thought ; lecture 42. The worldly philosophy of Bernard Mandeville ; lecture 43. Bishop Berkeley : idealism and critique of the Enlightenment ; lecture 44. Hume's epistemology ; lecture 45. Hume's theory of morality ; lecture 46. Hume's natural religion ; lecture 47. Adam Smith and the origins of political economy ; lecture 48. Rousseau's dissent
pt. 5. Age of ideology: lecture 49. Introduction ; lecture 50. Kant's Copernican revolution ; lecture 51. Kant's moral theory ; lecture 52. Burke : the origins of conservatism ; lecture 53. Hegel : history and historicism ; lecture 54. Marx : historical materialism ; lecture 55. Marx : on alienation ; lecture 56. Mill's utilitarianism ; lecture 57. Kierkegaard and the leap of faith ; lecture 58. Schopenhauer : the world as will and idea ; lecture 59. Nietzsche : perspectivism and the will to power ; lecture 60. Nietzsche : the death of God, morality, and selfcreation
pt. 6. Modernism and the age of analysis: lecture 61. Introduction ; lecture 62. James's pragmatism ; lecture 63. Freud's psychology of human nature ; lecture 64. Freud's discontents ; lecture 65. A.J. Ayer and logical positivism ; lecture 66. Max Weber and legitimate authority ; lecture 67. Husserl and phenomenology ; lecture 68. Dewey's critique of traditional philosophy ; lecture 69. Heidegger : Dasein and existenz ; lecture 70. Wittgenstein and language analysis ; lecture 71. The Frankfurt school ; lecture 72. Structuralism : Saussure and L�evi-Strauss
pt. 7. Age of modernity: lecture 73. Introduction ; lecture 74. Hayek and the critique of central planning ; lecture 75. Popper : the open society and the philosophy of science ; lecture 76. Kuhn's paradigm paradigm ; lecture 77. Quine : ontological relativism ; lecture 78. Habermas : critical theory and communicative action ; lecture 79. Rawls's theory of justice ; lecture 80. Derrida and deconstruction ; lecture 81. Rorty's neo-pragmatism ; lecture 82. Gouldner : ideology and the "new" class ; lecture 83. MacIntyre : the rationality of traditions ; lecture 84. Nozick's defense of Libertarianism.
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pt. 1. Classical origins
pt. 2. Christian age
pt. 3. From the Renaissance to the Age of Reason
pt. 4. Enlightenment and its critics
pt. 5. Age of ideology
pt. 6. Modernism and the age of analysis
pt. 7. Age of modernity.
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9781565853546
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