Season
- Season 1 2004-01-01
Episode
- Episode 1: From the Upanishads to Homer
- Episode 2: Philosophy—Did the Greeks Invent It?
- Episode 3: Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number
- Episode 4: What Is There?
- Episode 5: The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate
- Episode 6: Herodotus and the Lamp of History
- Episode 7: Socrates on the Examined Life
- Episode 8: Plato's Search For Truth
- Episode 9: Can Virtue Be Taught?
- Episode 10: Plato's Republic—Man Writ Large
- Episode 11: Hippocrates and the Science of Life
- Episode 12: Aristotle on the Knowable
- Episode 13: Aristotle on Friendship
- Episode 14: Aristotle on the Perfect Life
- Episode 15: Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law
- Episode 16: The Stoic Bridge to Christianity
- Episode 17: Roman Law—Making a City of the Once-Wide World
- Episode 18: The Light Within—Augustine on Human Nature
- Episode 19: Islam
- Episode 20: Secular Knowledge—The Idea of University
- Episode 21: The Reappearance of Experimental Science
- Episode 22: Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law
- Episode 23: The Renaissance—Was There One?
- Episode 24: Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them
- Episode 25: Francis Bacon and the Authority of Experience
- Episode 26: Descartes and the Authority of Reason
- Episode 27: Newton—The Saint of Science
- Episode 28: Hobbes and the Social Machine
- Episode 29: Locke’s Newtonian Science of the Mind
- Episode 30: No matter? The Challenge of Materialism
- Episode 31: Hume and the Pursuit of Happiness
- Episode 32: Thomas Reid and the Scottish School
- Episode 33: France and the Philosophes
- Episode 34: The Federalist Papers and the Great Experiment
- Episode 35: What Is Enlightenment? Kant on Freedom
- Episode 36: Moral Science and the Natural World
- Episode 37: Phrenology—A Science of the Mind
- Episode 38: The Idea of Freedom
- Episode 39: The Hegelians and History
- Episode 40: The Aesthetic Movement—Genius
- Episode 41: Nietzsche at the Twilight
- Episode 42: The Liberal Tradition—J. S. Mill
- Episode 43: Darwin and Nature’s “Purposes”
- Episode 44: Marxism—Dead But Not Forgotten
- Episode 45: The Freudian World
- Episode 46: The Radical William James
- Episode 47: William James's Pragmatism
- Episode 48: Wittgenstein and the Discursive Turn
- Episode 49: Alan Turing in the Forest of Wisdom
- Episode 50: Four Theories of the Good Life
- Episode 51: Ontology—What There "Really" Is
- Episode 52: Philosophy of Science—The Last Word?
- Episode 53: Philosophy of Psychology and Related Confusions
- Episode 54: Philosophy of Mind, If There Is One
- Episode 55: What makes a Problem “Moral”
- Episode 56: Medicine and the Value of Life
- Episode 57: On the Nature of Law
- Episode 58: Justice and Just Wars
- Episode 59: Aesthetics—Beauty Without Observers
- Episode 60: God—Really?
The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition Lectures Ontology—What There "Really" Is
These lectures offer a coherent and beautifully articulated introduction to the great philosophic conversation of the ages. They cover an enormous range of seminal thinkers and perspectives, but always from the vantage point of the enduring questions: What can we know? How ought we to act? How should we order our life together?
