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You then examine in detail the insights of three towering figures: Socrates, his student Plato, and Plato's student, Aristotle. Much of the rest of philosophy and Western thought is a response to these three. You study the Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics of the late Hellenistic and Roman worlds, as well as the Greek commentator Polybius and the Roman statesman-philosopher Cicero. This first part of the series is truly foundational. It furnishes you with a solid ground on which you can build up and extend your own understanding of the developments that occur over millennia of philosophic debate.

The aim of this course is to show these developments to you as passages in a narrative that records much disagreement but that contains substantial coherence beneath its contending voices.

In the introductory lecture to Part II , you learn how we still stand on and are moved by the Greek and biblical traditions, often not something of which we are fully conscious.

This meeting of Athens and Jerusalem is exemplified first by the influence of the neo-Platonist philosopher Plotinus on Saint Augustine. The symbiosis of Athens and Jerusalem continues during the High Middle Ages with Saint Thomas Aquinas's synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy and Christian theology and then branches off into different directions represented by the mysticism of Meister Eckhart and the Protestantism of Martin Luther and John Calvin.

Part III marks the critical schism that developed between the claims of faith and those of science. You begin with the bold work of Machiavelli, who opened up new ways of thinking about moral and political life. This is contrasted to the work of statesman-saint Sir Thomas More and his Utopia. You return from science to political life, specifically the era of the English Civil War and its echoes in the absolutist political thought of Thomas Hobbes, who championed a coldly scientific view of human nature.

You study the detached reverence toward being of Baruch Spinoza, the mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, and the skepticism of the influential Pierre Bayle. The concluding lecture is a summation of the career and significance of Isaac Newton, whose pathbreaking Principia Mathematica gave the new science authoritative expression.

Part IV covers the 17th and 18th centuries, capturing the sense of breathless discovery found in the Enlightenment, which reveled in the new freedom of human potential and scientific expansion.

This was also when the new bourgeoisie found its voice in a demand for free markets, free speech, and more political power. This period marks the intellectual flowering that led to the American Revolution. This segment of the course, like the others, stresses the inevitable linkage between a thinker's theory of knowledge and theory of morality: what we can know determines what we can know to be the right way to act.

The lectures on John Locke and David Hume develop this point with special cogency. Sign in to see the full collection. For 3, years, mankind has grappled with fundamental questions about life.

What is real? Who or what is God? When is it legitimate for one person to have power over others? What is justice? This lecture, professor tour of Western philosophical tradition covers more than 60 of history's greatest minds and brings you a comprehensive survey of the history of Western philosophy from its origins in classical Greece to the present.

It took 3, years for the debate chronicled in these lectures to reach maturity. With this series of lectures, you can encompass it by the end of next month. You'll travel chronologically through the history of the Western world, charting the intriguing development of Western philosophy and drawing fascinating connections between thinkers separated by the gulf of time and space.

You'll acquaint yourself with the Greek Pre-Socratics the world's first scientific thinkers and examine in detail the insights of three towering figures: Socrates, his student Plato, and Plato's student, Aristotle.

The content is great but they use the same clapping sound effect after every lecture, which makes it sound a bit fake. Science and democracy are the key reasons. Some speakers better than others. It would also have been good to have more quotations from the primary sources used as illustration. Highly recommend! It was a great way to get easy to follow information into great thinkers that have influenced Western thought.

Excellent Lectures provide excellent and interesting content. It covers what would be more than a semester worth of study. The best part is no exams.

The final lecture is a little bit of an anti-climax. I would recommend. This series really needs a chapter outline or third party guide to label the speaker and topic of each chapter. Beyond this small gripe, the series is great, speakers and content are excellent, as is audio quality and execution.

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Amazon Reviews. Sort by:. Most Helpful Most Recent. Filter by:. All stars 5 star only 4 star only 3 star only 2 star only 1 star only. SP One request please provide a chapter to philosopher map - otherwise to look back at any single chapter is a real chore 76 people found this helpful. Robin Fantastic overview Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend?

Amazon Customer A high-quality, college course without text or ref What made the experience of listening to Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition the most enjoyable? Benzion N. Chinn A Selection From Other Courses This course suffers from being a selection of lectures from other courses. Dixon Avoid the Sections by Prof. Matt Pretty Good The speakers are all very good.

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