pt. 1: lecture 1. From the Upanishads to Homer ; lecture 2. What is it and did the Greeks invent it? ; lecture 3. Pythagoras and the divinity of number ; lecture 4. What is there? The pre-Socratics and the ultimate stuff of the universe ; lecture 5. Is Medea guilty as charged? The Greek tragedians on man's fate ; lecture 6. Know thyself, Herodotus and the lamp of history ; 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
pt. 2: lecture 11. Mind and body, Hippocrates and the science of life ; lecture 12. Aristotle on the knowable ; lecture 13. Aristotle on friendship ; lecture 14. Aristotle on the perfect life ; lecture 15. Rome, the stoics, and the rule of life ; 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's idea of human nature ; lecture 19. Islam ; lecture 20. Secular knowledge, the idea of the university
pt. 3: lecture 21. Facts and values, the reappearance of experimental science lecture ; lecture 22. Scholasticism and the theory of natural law ; lecture 23. Erasmus and Luther, humanism and fundamentalism ; lecture 24. Let us burn the witches to save them ; lecture 25. Francis Bacon's Great instauration, the authority of experience ; lecture 26. Descartes and the skeptical mind, the authority of reason ; lecture 27. Newton, the saint of science ; lecture 28. The social machine, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and the science of statecraft ; lecture 29. A Newtonian science of the mind, John Locke on human understanding ; lecture 30. No matter? Never mind! Berkeley and the Challenge of materialism
pt. 4: lecture 31. Skepticism and the pursuit of happiness ; lecture 32. Common sense and diving providence, Thomas Reid and the Scottish school ; lecture 33. The play of mind and the salons of dissent, France and the philosophes ; lecture 34. The Federalist papers and the great experiment ; lecture 35. What is enlightenment? Kant on freedom and the forms of knowledge lecture 36. Moral science and the natural world, Kant and the moral imperative ; lecture 37. The phrenologists, early sciences of mind and brain ; lecture 38. The idea of freedom ; lecture 39. Human history as the unfolding of the ideal, the Hegelians ; lecture 40. The world and the gift of genius, the aesthetic movement
pt. 5: lecture 41. Dark corners of the soul, Nietzsche at the twilight ; lecture 42. The liberal tradition, J.S. Mill on liberty ; lecture 43. Survival of the fittest, Darwin and the (blind) purposes of nature ; lecture 44. Marxism, dead but not forgotten ; lecture 45. The Freudian world ; lecture 46. Yankee thought in a world of mystery, the radical william James ; lecture 47. William James's pragmatism ; lecture 48. Helping the fly out of the bottle, Wittgenstein and the discursive turn ; lecture 49. Breaking the code, Alan Turing in the forest of wisdom ; lecture 50. Four theories of the good life, from saints to heroes to brains in vats.
