The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition (2004)
TalkDocumentary
Creator: Daniel Nicholas Robinson
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?
Seasons
Season 1 Episodes
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