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Publication Date
©2011
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + course guidebook (160 pages ; 19 cm).
Description
"[This series] is an epic, comprehensive survey of the East's most influential philosphers and thinkers. In 36 lectures, [the student will be introduced to] the men and women responsible for molding Asian philosophy and for giving birth to a wide variety of spiritual and ideological systems, including Hinduism, Daoism, Confucianism, Sufism, and Buddhism."--Www.thegreatcourses.com.
Publication Date
2011.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 196 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Description
A series of lectures delivered by Professor J. Rufus Fears of the University of Oklahoma in which he explores the world's greatest myths. Beginning with the Trojan War and the Illiad and moving through the Bronze age in the Mediterranean with Theseus and Oedipus, Mesopotamia and Gilgamesh, the three great religions from the Middle East, the Roman Empire in the Aeneid, Romulus and Remus and Augustus, Alexander the Great, the British Isles, Beowulf...
Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 279 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Description
Learn to think clearly, shun fallacies, and reach your own conclusions as you confront the questions that have puzzled generations of philosophers.
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
Examines the philosophic questions that sci-fi raises, some of the answers to these questions that the creators of sci-fi give, and evaluates them with the help of history's most important philosophic thinkers.
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (370 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (ii, 86 pages : illustrated ; 19 cm).
Description
"Professor Reid shows how Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and the other early modern philosophers serve as a bridge between the Scholasticism of the late Middle Ages and thinkers of the 18th-century Enlightenment--such as David Hume, Immanuel Kant, John Locke, and Voltaire, who were directly responding to the writings of the rationalists. This broad arc of ideas makes Early Modern Philosophy: Descartes and the Rationalists invaluable for understanding...
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