The big questions of philosophy

DVD - 2016

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Published
[Chantilly, Va.] : Teaching Company [2016]
Language
English
Corporate Author
Teaching Company
Corporate Author
Teaching Company (-)
Other Authors
David Kyle Johnson (author)
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?