The big questions of philosophy
Streaming video - 2016
We have all pondered seemingly unanswerably but significant questions about our existence - the biggest of all being, "Why are we here?" This course gives you the tools to follow and create logical arguments while exploring famous philosophers' viewpoints on these important questions. Join Plato, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Mill, Marx, and many others in an exploration of fundamental questions.
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- Published
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[United States] :
The Great Courses
2016.
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Online Access
- Instantly available on hoopla.
Cover image - Physical Description
- 1 online resource (36 video files (approximately 1080 min.)) : sd., col
- Format
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Audience
- Rated TVPG.
- Access
- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).
- Episode 1 How Do We Do Philosophy? Episode 2 Why Should We Trust Reason? Episode 3 How Do We Reason Carefully? Episode 4 How Do We Find the Best Explanation? Episode 5 What Is Truth? Episode 6 Is Knowledge Possible? Episode 7 What Is the Best Way to Gain Knowledge? Episode 8 Do We Know What Knowledge Is? Episode 9 When Can We Trust Testimony? Episode 10 Can Mystical Experience Justify Belief? Episode 11 Is Faith Ever Rational? Episode 12 Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? Episode 13 What Is God Like? Episode 14 How Could God Allow Moral Evil? Episode 15 Why Would God Cause Natural Evil? Episode 16 Are Freedom and Foreknowledge Compatible? Episode 17 Do Our Souls Make Us Free? Episode 18 What Does It Mean to Be Free? Episode 19 What Preserves Personal Identity? Episode 20 Are Persons Mere Minds? Episode 21 Are Persons Just Bodies? Episode 22 Are You Really You? Episode 23 How Does the Brain Produce the Mind? Episode 24 What Do Minds Do, If Anything? Episode 25 Could Machines Think? Episode 26 Does God Define the Good? Episode 27 Does Happiness Define the Good? Episode 28 Does Reason Define the Good? Episode 29 How Ought We to Live? Episode 30 Why Bother Being Good? Episode 31 Should Government Exist? Episode 32 What Justifies a Government? Episode 33 How Big Should Government Be? Episode 34 What Are the Limits of Liberty? Episode 35 What Makes a Society Fair or Just? Episode 36 What Is the Meaning of Life?.