Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition

For 3 000 years mankind has grappled with fundamental questions about life. What is real? Who or what is God? When is it legitimate for one person to have power over others? What is justice? Beauty? This 84-lecture 12-professor tour of Western philosophical tradition covers more than 60 of historys greatest minds and brings you a comprehensive survey of the history of Western philosophy from its origins in classical Greece to the present. It took 3 000 years for the debate chronicled in these lectures to reach maturity. With this series of lectures you can encompass it by the end of next month. Youll travel chronologically through the history of the Western world charting the intriguing development of Western philosophy and drawing fascinating connections between thinkers separated by the gulf of time and space. Youll acquaint yourself with the Greek Pre-Socratics (the worlds first scientific thinkers) and examine in detail the insights of three towering figures: Socrates his student Plato and Platos student Aristotle. Youll examine the contributions to philosophy from biblical traditions and the great minds of the Christian age. Then youll mark the critical schism that developed between the claims of faith and those of science and participate in the breathless discovery found during the Enlightenment which reveled in the new freedom of human potential and scientific expansion. Youll study the provocative philosophical responses (by the Existentialists and others) to the challenges raised by the new scientific consciousness. And youll conclude with an overview of the work of Derrida and other late 20th-century philosophers and theorists. The full list of lecturers includes Professors Alan Charles Kors Darren Staloff Dennis Dalton Douglas Kellner Jeremy Adams Jeremy Shearmur Kathleen M. Higgins Louis Markos Mark Risjord Phillip Cary Robert C. Solomon and Robert H. Kane.