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Table of ContentsThe Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2 nd EditionPart IProfessor Biography............................................................................................iCourse Scope.......................................................................................................1Lecture OneLecture TwoFrom the Upanishads to Homer.................................2Philosophy⎯Did the Greeks Invent It?.....................5Lecture Three Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number ....................7Lecture Four What Is There? ..........................................................9Lecture Five The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate .....................12Lecture Six Herodotus and the Lamp of History ........................15Lecture Seven Socrates on the Examined Life ................................17Lecture EightPlato’s Search for Truth...........................................20Lecture Nine Can Virtue Be Taught? ............................................23Lecture Ten Plato’s Republic—Man Writ Large .........................25Lecture ElevenLecture TwelveHippocrates and the Science of Life........................28Aristotle on the Knowable.......................................30Timeline.............................................................................................................33Glossary.............................................................................................................38Biographical Notes............................................................................................42Bibliography............................................................................................... Part Vii©2004 The Teaching Company Limited Partnership
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Page 7 and 8: D. Long before the appearance of ph
Page 9 and 10: Lecture TwoPhilosophy⎯Did the Gre
Page 11 and 12: Lecture ThreePythagoras and the Div
Page 13: Lecture FourWhat Is There?Scope: Ho
Page 16 and 17: Lecture FiveThe Greek Tragedians on
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Page 20 and 21: 2. This perspective humanizes human
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Page 42 and 43: Apatheia: Freedom from pathos and s
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Page 46 and 47: Biographical NotesAeschylus (525-45
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Scope:The Great Ideas of Philosophy
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1. This expression is intended to c
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Lecture FourteenAristotle on the Pe
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Lecture FifteenRome, the Stoics, an
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emotional states that cause unhappi
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D. In the Stoic account, the mode o
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Lecture SeventeenRoman Law⎯Making
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Thou has made of alien realms one f
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longer refer merely to this world o
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Lecture NineteenIslamScope: In 632
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E. When the long debate is resumed,
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3. By the time of Alcuin’s death,
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Lecture Twenty-OneThe Reappearance
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Questions to Consider:1. As the Sch
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2. It is by way of the rational pow
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Lecture Twenty-ThreeThe Renaissance
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IV. In some respects, the two sides
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coercion, sickness, insanity, and t
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Timeline800-600 B.C.E. ............
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Functionalism: The view that consci
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Tabula rasa: A blank slate. In the
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progress in one of its most summoni
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John Locke (1632-1704): Physician a
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The Great Ideas ofPhilosophy, 2 nd
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Table of ContentsThe Great Ideas of
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Lecture Twenty-FiveFrancis Bacon an
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Lecture Twenty-SixDescartes and the
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B. There is, however, at least one
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B. A lifelong student of the Bible,
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D. Society is a fit subject for sci
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Lecture Twenty-NineLocke’s Newton
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Questions to Consider:1. If “asso
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2. Make it large enough so that we
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1. All other things being equal, A
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IV. Reid rejects this so-called “
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Lecture Thirty-ThreeFrance and the
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B. Given that so much energy is nee
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B. When one contrasts the arguments
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Lecture Thirty-FiveWhat Is Enlighte
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3. The knowable is confined to the
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2. Decisions thus grounded are non-
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Timeline800-600 B.C.E. ............
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1705...............................
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1873...............................
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Functionalism: The view that consci
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Tabula rasa: A blank slate. In the
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progress in one of its most summoni
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John Locke (1632-1704): Physician a
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The Great Ideas ofPhilosophy, 2 nd
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Table of ContentsThe Great Ideas of
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Lecture Thirty-SevenPhrenology⎯A
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Lecture Thirty-EightThe Idea of Fre
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Lecture Thirty-NineThe Hegelians an
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VI. Romanticism brings the recognit
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Additionally, Romanticism recognize
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Lecture Forty-OneNietzsche at the T
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Lecture Forty-TwoThe Liberal Tradit
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4. In this same connection, Mill ar
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2. There is no room for qualifying
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Lecture Forty-FourMarxism⎯Dead Bu
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3. What is needed is a revolutionar
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II. In his practice, Freud would se
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Lecture Forty-SixThe Radical Willia
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VI. James took up the “common sen
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B. This shortchanges James’s vers
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Lecture Forty-EightWittgenstein and
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1. Personal identity? Wittgenstein
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650-850 C.E. ......................
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1794...............................
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Apatheia: Freedom from pathos and s
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ut cannot know what it is. Ultimate
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Biographical NotesAeschylus (525-45
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Claude Adrien Helvetius (1715-1771)
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Socrates (c. 469-399 B.C.): Greek p
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Daniel N. Robinson, Ph.D.Philosophy
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Scope:The Great Ideas of Philosophy
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III. Turing did not solve the most-
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Lecture FiftyFour Theories of the G
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Lecture Fifty-OneOntology⎯What Th
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1. Rather, the history of science i
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D. Hempel’s theory is called the
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Lecture Fifty-ThreePhilosophy of Ps
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1. There are few instances in the d
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Lecture Fifty-FourPhilosophy of Min
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1. The first step in developing suc
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D. For a 20 th -century perspective
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Lecture Fifty-SixMedicine and the V
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VII. Moral philosophy, as such, is
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B. At the root, law is a command, p
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Lecture Fifty-EightJustice and Just
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5. The belligerents should intend t
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Lecture Fifty-NineAesthetics⎯Beau
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V. The Baroque, for all its influen
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Lecture SixtyGod⎯Really?Scope: Ar
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C. The third proof is taken from th
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Essential Reading:BibliographyBarne
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de Bruyne, Edgar. The Esthetics of
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Lerner, R., and Mahdi, M., eds. Med
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