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Series
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (1800 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 336 p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
The "Long Debate" on the nature of truth, the scale of real values, the life one should aspire to live, the character of justice, the sources of law, and the terms of civic and political life is encompassed by the name philosophy. Three persistent themes--understood as problems--are knowledge, conduct, and governance, on which there is a storehouse of insights, some so utterly persuasive as to have shaped thought itself. Beginning with Plato and Aristotle,...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (67 pages ; 22 cm).
Description
Twelve 30-minute lectures by Oxford University Professor Daniel N. Robinson on consciousness from the perspective of the philosopher, the psychologist, the scientist, and the doctor.
Pub. 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.
Pub. 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...
Pub. 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.
Pub. 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.
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