Dennis Dalton & Others – Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition 3rd Edition

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Dennis Dalton

Alan Charles Kors

Robert H. Kane

Course Overview
For 3,000 years, mankind has grappled with fundamental questions about life. Crucial questions about our existence and being have been pondered by thoughtful men and women since civilization began. The most brilliant minds in history focused on these questions—and their search for answers has left us an intellectual legacy of…
84 Lectures

Average 31 minutes each

1
Introduction

2
The Pre-Socratics—Physics and Metaphysics

3
The Sophists and Social Science

4
Plato—Metaphysics

5
Plato—Politics

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Plato—Psychology

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Aristotle—Metaphysics

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Aristotle—Politics

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Aristotle—Ethics

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Stoicism and Epicureanism

11
Roman Eclecticism—Cicero and Polybius

12
Roman Skepticism—Sextus Empiricus

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Introduction

14
Job and the Problem of Suffering

15
The Hebrew Bible and Covenantal History

16
The Synoptic Gospels—The Historical Jesus and the Kingdom of God

17
Paul—Justification by Faith

18
Plotinus and Neo-Platonism

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Augustine—Grace and Free Will

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Aquinas and Christian Aristotelianism

21
Universals in Medieval Thought

22
Mysticism and Meister Eckhart

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Luther—Law and Gospel

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Calvin and Protestantism

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Introduction

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Machiavelli and the Origins of Political Science

27
More’s Utopianism

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Erasmus Against Enthusiasm

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Galileo and the New Astronomy

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Bacon’s New Organon and the New Science

31
Descartes—The Method of Modern Philosophy

32
Hobbes—Politics and the State of Nature

33
Spinoza—Rationalism and the Reverence for Being

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Pascal—Skepticism and Jansenism

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Bayle—Skepticism and Calvinism

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Newton and Enlightened Science

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Introduction

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Locke—Politics

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Locke—The Revolution in Knowledge

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Vico and the New Science of History

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Montesquieu and Political Thought

42
The Worldly Philosophy of Bernard Mandeville

43
Bishop Berkeley—Idealism and Critique of the Enlightenment

44
Hume’s Epistemology

45
Hume’s Theory of Morality

46
Hume’s Natural Religion

47
Adam Smith and the Origins of Political Economy

48
Rousseau’s Dissent

49
Introduction

50
Kant’s “Copernican Revolution”

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Kant’s Moral Theory

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Burke—The Origins of Conservatism

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Hegel—History and Historicism

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Marx—Historical Materialism

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Marx—On Alienation

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Mill’s Utilitarianism

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Kierkegaard and the Leap of Faith

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Schopenhauer—The World as Will and Idea

59
Nietzsche—Perspectivism and the Will to Power

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Nietzsche—The Death of God, Morality, and Self-Creation

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Introduction

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James’s Pragmatism

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Freud’s Psychology of Human Nature

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Freud’s Discontents

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A.J. Ayer and Logical Positivism

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Max Weber and Legitimate Authority

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Husserl and Phenomenology

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Dewey’s Critique of Traditional Philosophy

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Heidegger—Dasein and Existenz

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Wittgenstein and Language Analysis

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The Frankfurt School

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Structuralism—Saussure and Lévi-Strauss

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Introduction

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Hayek and the Critique of Central Planning

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Popper—The Open Society and the Philosophy of Science

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Kuhn’s Paradigm Paradigm

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Quine—Ontological Relativism

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Habermas—Critical Theory and Communicative Action

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Rawls’s Theory of Justice

80
Derrida and Deconstruction

81
Rorty’s Neo-Pragmatism

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Gouldner—Ideology and the “New” Class

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MacIntyre—The Rationality of Traditions

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Nozick’s Defense of Libertarianism

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