The great ideas of philosophy

Part 1. Disc 1. Lecture 1 From the Upanishads to Homer ; Lecture 2 Philosophy: Did the Greeks invent it? ; Lecture 3 Pythagoras and the divinity of number ; Lecture 4 What is there? ; Lecture 5 The Greek tragedians on man's fate ; Lecture 6 Herodotus and the lamp of history --

Disc 2. 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 Hippocrates and the science of life ; Lecture 12 Aristotle on the knowable.

Part 2. Disc 3. Lecture 13 Aristotle on friendship ; Lecture 14 Aristotle on the perfect life ; Lecture 15 Rome, the Stoics, and the rule of law ; 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 on human nature --

Disc 4. Lecture 19 Islam ; Lecture 20 Secular knowledge: The idea of university ; Lecture 21 The reappearance of experimental science ; Lecture 22 Scholasticism and the theory of natural law ; Lecture 23 The Renaissance: Was there one? ; Lecture 24 Let us burn the witches to save them.

Part 3. Disc 5. Lecture 25 Francis Bacon and the authority of experience ; Lecture 26 Descartes and the authority of reason ; Lecture 27 Newton: The saint of science ; Lecture 28 Hobbes and the social machine ; Lecture 29 Locke's Newtonian science of the mind ; Lecture 30 No matter? The challenge of materialism --

Disc 6. Lecture 31 Hume and the pursuit of happiness ; Lecture 32 Thomas Reid and the Scottish school ; Lecture 33 France and the philosophes ; Lecture 34 'The Federalist Papers' and the great experiment ; Lecture 35 What is Enlightenment? Kant on freedom ; Lecture 36 Moral science and the natural world.

Part 4. Disc 7. Lecture 37 Phrenology: A science of the mind ; Lecture 38 The idea of freedom ; Lecture 39 The Hegelians and history ; Lecture 40 The aesthetic movement: Genius ; Lecture 41 Nietzsche at the twilight ; Lecture 42 The liberal tradition: J.S. Mill --

Disc 8. Lecture 43 Darwin and nature's "purposes" ; Lecture 44 Marxism: Dead but not forgotten ; Lecture 45 The Freudian world ; Lecture 46 The radical William James ; Lecture 47 William James' pragmatism ; Lecture 48 Wittgenstein and the discursive turn.

Part 5. Disc 9. Lecture 49 Alan Turing in the forest of wisdom ; Lecture 50 Four theories of the good life ; Lecture 51 Ontology: What there "really" is ; Lecture 52 Philosophy of science: The last word? ; Lecture 53 Philosophy of psychology and related confusions ; Lecture 54 Philosophy of mind, if there is one --

Disc 10. Lecture 55 What makes a problem "moral" ; Lecture 56 Medicine and the value of life ; Lecture 57 On the nature of law ; Lecture 58 Justice and just wars ; Lecture 59 Aesthetics: Beauty without observers ; Lecture 60 God: Really?