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46:13Foucault: Power, Knowledge and Post-structuralism
593K viewsFoucault's account of power and knowledge and post-structuralism.
45:32Freud and Philosophy
480K viewsFreud's ideas and their philosophical implications for reason and the self.
48:47Great Authors - Literature of Ancient Greece and Jerusalem - Thucydides and the Dawn of History
194K viewsThucydides and the beginnings of critical history.
46:19Great Minds - Aquinas' Summa Theologica: The Thomist Synthesis and its Political and Social Content
232K viewsAquinas' Summa Theologica: the Thomist synthesis of Aristotle and Christian theology and its political consequences.
44:46Great Minds - Introduction to the Problems and Scope of Philosophy
402K viewsAn introduction to what philosophy is and the problems it addresses, opening the Great Minds course.
41:48Great Minds - Montesquieu and the Beginnings of Political Science
127K viewsMontesquieu's Spirit of the Laws and the birth of political science.
46:23Great Minds - Part 1 - Plato's Republic I: Justice, Power, and Knowledge
1.19M viewsBook I of Plato's Republic: Thrasymachus, justice as power, and the setup of Plato's inquiry.
44:48Great Minds - Part 1 - Plato's Republic II-V: Soul and City
401K viewsPlato's Republic books II–V: the tripartite soul and the just city.
46:19Great Minds - Part 1 - Plato's Republic VI-X: The Architecture of Reality
302K viewsRepublic VI–X: the divided line, the cave and Plato's theory of Forms.
44:43Great Minds - Part 4 - Hegel: The Phenomenology of Geist
324K viewsHegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and the dialectical development of Geist.
45:12Great Minds - Part 4 - Marx and the Problem of Alienation and Ideology
395K viewsMarx's theory of alienation and ideology and its roots in Hegel.
44:22Great Minds - Part 5 - The Latter Wittgenstein: The Philosophy of Language
370K viewsLater Wittgenstein: language games, meaning as use and the rejection of the Tractatus.
43:11Hegel's Philosophy of History
677K viewsHegel's philosophy of history: reason in history, the dialectic and freedom's development.
44:53Heidegger: Being and Time
1.27M viewsHeidegger's Being and Time: Dasein, being-in-the-world, authenticity and being-toward-death.
45:00Husserl: Phenomenology and the Life World
314K viewsHusserl's phenomenology: intentionality, the epoché and the life-world.
43:50Kant's Moral Philosophy
870K viewsKant's moral philosophy: the good will, duty and the categorical imperative.
42:48Kierkegaard's Christian Existentialism
803K viewsKierkegaard's Christian existentialism: the aesthetic, ethical and religious stages and the leap of faith.
42:50Machiavelli
1.83M viewsMachiavelli's The Prince and Discourses: realism about power and the break with medieval political thought.
42:38Nietzsche's Critique of Christianity: The Genealogy of Morals
1.58M viewsNietzsche's Genealogy of Morals: master and slave morality, ressentiment and the critique of Christian ethics.
48:31Plato's Symposium: The Dialectic of Reason, Love, and Wisdom
277K viewsPlato's Symposium: the speeches on love and Diotima's ladder.
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44:21Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Idea
490K viewsSchopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation: will, suffering and aesthetic escape.
40:16Smith's Wealth of Nations
286K viewsAdam Smith's Wealth of Nations: division of labour, markets and the invisible hand.
42:30The Bible and Western Culture - Kierkegaard's Leap of Faith
320K viewsKierkegaard's leap of faith and his critique of rational religion.
46:30The Bible and Western Culture - Nietzsche and the Death of God
835K viewsNietzsche's announcement of the death of God and what it meant for Western values.
45:39The Bible and Western Culture - Part 1 - Augustine and the Christian Self
211K viewsAugustine's Confessions and the invention of the Christian inner self.
43:33The Bible and Western Culture - Part 1 - Job and the Problem of Evil
241K viewsThe Book of Job and the problem of evil: innocent suffering and the limits of human understanding.
45:47The Bible and Western Culture - Part 1 - The Gilgamesh Epic
284K viewsThe Epic of Gilgamesh as literature and as a window on Mesopotamian ideas of death, friendship and civilization.
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42:29Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: The Stoic Ideal
3.42M viewsPrinceton-trained historian of ideas Michael Sugrue lectures on Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and the Stoic ideal of duty and self-command.
47:35Dr. Darren Staloff, Nietzsche's Critique of Historical Consciousness
A 48-minute video from Michael Sugrue: “Dr. Darren Staloff, Nietzsche's Critique of Historical Consciousness”.
58:511984 by George Orwell: Bibliotheca Webinar
24.8K viewsA 59-minute video from Michael Sugrue's catalogue; the title names its topic.
57:57A Clockwork Orange: Bibliotheca Webinar
19.2K viewsA 58-minute video from Michael Sugrue's catalogue; the title names its topic.
1:02:47A Theory of Justice: Bibliotheca Webinar
19.1K viewsA 63-minute video from Michael Sugrue's catalogue; the title names its topic.
49:36Aeschylus Oresteia and Republic 2 for the Doctors
22.9K viewsA 50-minute video from Michael Sugrue's catalogue; the title names its topic.
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