The big questions of philosophy
DVD - 2016
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- Published
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[Chantilly, Va.] :
Teaching Company
[2016]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- [PDF workbook version]
- Item Description
- "The Great courses, Topic: Philosophy & intellectual history ; Subtopic: Modern Philosophy"--Cover.
"Course no. 4130"--Disc labels.
24 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Accompanying CD-ROM contains course workbook in PDF format. - Physical Description
- 6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
- Format
- DVD; PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader.
- ISBN
- 9781501925320
- Disc 1. How do we do philosophy?
- Why should we trust reason?
- How do we reason carefully?
- How do we find the best explanation?
- What is truth?
- Is knowledge possible?
- Disc 2.What is the best way to gain knowledge?
- Do we know what knowledge is?
- When can we trust testimony?
- Can mystical experience justify belief?
- Is faith ever rational?
- Why is there something rather than nothing?
- Disc 3. What is God like?
- How could God allow moral evil?
- Why would God cause natural evil?
- Are freedom and foreknowledge compatible?
- Do our souls make us free?
- What does it mean to be free?
- Disc 4. What preserves personal identity?
- Are persons mere minds?
- Are persons just bodies?
- Are you really you?
- How does the brain produce the mind?
- What do minds do, if anything?
- Disc 5. Could machines think?
- Does God define the good?
- Does happiness define the good?
- Does reason define the good?
- How ought we to live?
- Why bother being good?
- Disc 6. Should government exist?
- What justifies a government?
- How big should government be?
- What are the limits of liberty?
- What makes a society fair or just?
- What is the meaning of life?