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The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition Lectures Episode 6 Herodotus and the Lamp of History 2004

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Can history actually teach us? Herodotus looked at what he took to be certain universal human aspirations and deficiencies and concluded that indeed history could.

Released: 2004-01-01
Runtime: 30 minutes
Genre: Talk, Documentary
Stars: Daniel Nicholas Robinson
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Season 1

1. From the Upanishads to Homer 2004-01-01

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2. Philosophy—Did the Greeks Invent It? 2004-01-01

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3. Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number 2004-01-01

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4. What Is There? 2004-01-01

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5. The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate 2004-01-01

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6. Herodotus and the Lamp of History 2004-01-01

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7. Socrates on the Examined Life 2004-01-01

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8. Plato's Search For Truth 2004-01-01

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9. Can Virtue Be Taught? 2004-01-01

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10. Plato's Republic—Man Writ Large 2004-01-01

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11. Hippocrates and the Science of Life 2004-01-01

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12. Aristotle on the Knowable 2004-01-01

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13. Aristotle on Friendship 2004-01-01

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14. Aristotle on the Perfect Life 2004-01-01

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15. Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law 2004-01-01

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16. The Stoic Bridge to Christianity 2004-01-01

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17. Roman Law—Making a City of the Once-Wide World 2004-01-01

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18. The Light Within—Augustine on Human Nature 2004-01-01

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19. Islam 2004-01-01

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20. Secular Knowledge—The Idea of University 2004-01-01

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21. The Reappearance of Experimental Science 2004-01-01

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22. Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law 2004-01-01

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23. The Renaissance—Was There One? 2004-01-01

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24. Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them 2004-01-01

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25. Francis Bacon and the Authority of Experience 2004-01-01

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26. Descartes and the Authority of Reason 2004-01-01

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27. Newton—The Saint of Science 2004-01-01

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28. Hobbes and the Social Machine 2004-01-01

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29. Locke’s Newtonian Science of the Mind 2004-01-01

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30. No matter? The Challenge of Materialism 2004-01-01

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31. Hume and the Pursuit of Happiness 2004-01-01

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32. Thomas Reid and the Scottish School 2004-01-01

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33. France and the Philosophes 2004-01-01

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34. The Federalist Papers and the Great Experiment 2004-01-01

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35. What Is Enlightenment? Kant on Freedom 2004-01-01

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36. Moral Science and the Natural World 2004-01-01

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37. Phrenology—A Science of the Mind 2004-01-01

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38. The Idea of Freedom 2004-01-01

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39. The Hegelians and History 2004-01-01

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40. The Aesthetic Movement—Genius 2004-01-01

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41. Nietzsche at the Twilight 2004-01-01

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42. The Liberal Tradition—J. S. Mill 2004-01-01

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43. Darwin and Nature’s “Purposes” 2004-01-01

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44. Marxism—Dead But Not Forgotten 2004-01-01

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45. The Freudian World 2004-01-01

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46. The Radical William James 2004-01-01

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47. William James's Pragmatism 2004-01-01

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48. Wittgenstein and the Discursive Turn 2004-01-01

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49. Alan Turing in the Forest of Wisdom 2004-01-01

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50. Four Theories of the Good Life 2004-01-01

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51. Ontology—What There "Really" Is 2004-01-01

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52. Philosophy of Science—The Last Word? 2004-01-01

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53. Philosophy of Psychology and Related Confusions 2004-01-01

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54. Philosophy of Mind, If There Is One 2004-01-01

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55. What makes a Problem “Moral” 2004-01-01

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56. Medicine and the Value of Life 2004-01-01

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57. On the Nature of Law 2004-01-01

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58. Justice and Just Wars 2004-01-01

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59. Aesthetics—Beauty Without Observers 2004-01-01

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60. God—Really? 2004-01-01

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