From Ancient to Modern Philosophy
From Ancient to Modern Philosophy, available at $94.99, has an average rating of 5, with 44 lectures, based on 82 reviews, and has 698 subscribers.
You will learn about Gain an understanding of the development of thought in western society over the past 3000 years Develop a keen appreciation of the fundamental tenets of various philosophical systems Gain an understanding of the basic postulates of the most influential thinkers. Develop an awareness of those philosophical questions which still remain unanswered Cultivate your own approach to some of the most difficult philosophical problems. This course is ideal for individuals who are For anyone who wants a broad overview of the main tenets of the main philosophers. It is particularly useful for For anyone who wants a broad overview of the main tenets of the main philosophers.
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Title: From Ancient to Modern Philosophy
Price: $94.99
Average Rating: 5
Number of Lectures: 44
Number of Published Lectures: 44
Number of Curriculum Items: 44
Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 44
Original Price: £54.99
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What You Will Learn
- Gain an understanding of the development of thought in western society over the past 3000 years
- Develop a keen appreciation of the fundamental tenets of various philosophical systems
- Gain an understanding of the basic postulates of the most influential thinkers.
- Develop an awareness of those philosophical questions which still remain unanswered
- Cultivate your own approach to some of the most difficult philosophical problems.
Who Should Attend
- For anyone who wants a broad overview of the main tenets of the main philosophers.
Target Audiences
- For anyone who wants a broad overview of the main tenets of the main philosophers.
This series of lectures covers the main claims of western philosophers in chronological order, starting with the pre-Socratics and ending with twentieth century philosophers. More and more lessons will be added in the future; I am a passionate student of philosophy who enjoys discussing and sharing these ideas with others. There are no quizzes or assignments on this course, but there are 15 hours of lectures (so far).
Even though only a few fragments have survived from the writings of the pre-Socratics, we can still trace a logical development in their thought, which began with the worlds of being and becoming, and ended with the ‘atoms and void’ of Democritus, which is arguably the basis of modern chemistry. The stoics, the cynics, and the Epicureans flourished in Greece and Rome in a later period, developing ethical systems and building on the ideas of earlier thinkers. Plato wrote his ‘Republic’ at around this time, which has had a bigger impact than any other philosophical work, so we go through the ideas of this book in great detail. Aristotle was the student of Plato, but he developed a different metaphysical system. His system was greatly admired by Thomas Aquinas, who modified his ideas to support his own Christian beliefs. Two philosophers, Machiavelli and Hobbes, are perhaps the founders of modern political philosophy, so we examine their work next. The father of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes, developed a form of rationalism and had a tremendous influence on both mathematics and the scientific revolution. The rationalism of Descartes, Spinoza, and Plato argued that the chief source of all knowledge was to be found in deductive reason; in contrast, the British empiricists (Bacon, Locke, Berkeley, Hume) claimed that the only source of knowledge was obtained via the senses. While Bacon and Locke asserted that there must be a real world that causes our perceptions (realism), Berkeley contended that our perceptions are all we have (idealism). Kant created a new system, which he called ‘transcendental idealism’, in an attempt to deal with the arguments of the realists and idealists. Schopenhauer was a great admirer of Kant’s ideas on time and space, but he suggested that Kant’s famous ‘thing-in-itself’ was knowable in some sense, and he identified ‘the will’ as being the ‘thing-in-itself’. Nietzsche took Schopenhauer’s ‘will’ and turned it into the ‘will to power’, while Freud considered it a ‘will to pleasure’. In the twentieth century, Heidegger arrived, ushering in a new age of existentialism.
Course Curriculum
Chapter 1: Pre-Socratic Philosophy
Lecture 1: Thales
Lecture 2: Anaximander
Lecture 3: Heraclitus
Lecture 4: Parmenides
Lecture 5: Empedocles
Lecture 6: Anaxagoras
Lecture 7: Democritus
Chapter 2: Later Greek and Roman philosophers
Lecture 1: Diogenes (Cynics)
Lecture 2: Zeno (Stoics)
Lecture 3: Epicurus
Chapter 3: Plato's Republic
Lecture 1: Plato's Republic 1
Lecture 2: Plato's Republic 2
Lecture 3: Plato's Republic 3
Lecture 4: Plato's Republic 4
Lecture 5: Plato's Republic 5
Lecture 6: Plato's Republic 6
Lecture 7: Plato's Republic 7
Lecture 8: Plato's Republic 8
Lecture 9: Plato's Republic 9
Lecture 10: Plato's Republic 10
Chapter 4: Aristotle's Metaphysics
Lecture 1: Aristotle's Metaphysics 1
Lecture 2: Aristotle's Metaphysics 2
Lecture 3: Aristotle's Metaphysics 3
Chapter 5: Thomas Aquinas
Lecture 1: Thomas Aquinas
Chapter 6: Machiavelli
Lecture 1: Machiavelli's Prince
Chapter 7: Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan
Lecture 1: Hobbes' Leviathan
Chapter 8: Descartes' Meditations
Lecture 1: Descartes' Meditations
Chapter 9: Francis Bacon's Novum Organum
Lecture 1: Francis Bacon
Chapter 10: Spinoza's Ethics
Lecture 1: Spinoza 1
Lecture 2: Spinoza 2
Lecture 3: Spinoza 3
Lecture 4: Spinoza 4
Chapter 11: Locke's Essay on Human Understanding
Lecture 1: John Locke
Chapter 12: Leibnitz's Monadology
Lecture 1: Leibnitz – Part 1
Lecture 2: Leibnitz – Part 2
Chapter 13: Berkeley's Idealism
Lecture 1: George Berkeley
Chapter 14: David Hume's Problem of Induction
Lecture 1: David Hume
Chapter 15: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Lecture 1: Kant
Chapter 16: Schopenhauer's World as Will and Representation
Lecture 1: Schopenhauer
Chapter 17: Nietzsche's Critique of Morality
Lecture 1: Nietzsche 1
Lecture 2: Nietzsche 2
Chapter 18: Heidegger's Being and Time
Lecture 1: Heidegger – Part 1
Lecture 2: Heidegger – Part 2
Chapter 19: Foucault's Discipline and Punish
Lecture 1: Foucault
Instructors
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Dave Skypelessons
Online English Tutor
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