From the Upanishads to Homer ; Philosophy: Did the Greeks invent it? ; Pythagoras and the divinity of number ; What is there? ; The Greek tragedians on man's fate ; Herodotus and the lamp of history -- Socrates on the examined life ; Plato's search for truth ; Can virtue be taught? ; Plato's 'Republic': Man writ large ; Hippocrates and the science of life ; Aristotle on the knowable.
Aristotle on friendship ; Aristotle on the perfect life ; Rome, the Stoics, and the rule of law ; The Stoic bridge to Christianity ; Roman law: Making a city of the once-wide world ; The light within: Augustine on human nature -- Islam ; Secular knowledge: The idea of university ; The reappearance of experimental science ; Scholasticism and the theory of natural law ; The Renaissance: Was there one? ; Let us burn the witches to save them.
Francis Bacon and the authority of experience ; Descartes and the authority of reason ; Newton: The saint of science ; Hobbes and the social machine ; Locke's Newtonian science of the mind ; No matter? The challenge of materialism -- Hume and the pursuit of happiness ; Thomas Reid and the Scottish school ; France and the philosophes ; 'The Federalist Papers' and the great experiment ; What is Enlightenment? Kant on freedom ; Moral science and the natural world.
Phrenology: A science of the mind ; The idea of freedom ; The Hegelians and history ; The aesthetic movement: Genius ; Nietzsche at the twilight ; The liberal tradition: J.S. Mill -- Darwin and nature's "purposes" ; Marxism: Dead but not forgotten ; The Freudian world ; The radical William James ; William James' pragmatism ; Wittgenstein and the discursive turn.
Alan Turing in the forest of wisdom ; Four theories of the good life ; Ontology: What there "really" is ; Philosophy of science: The last word? ; Philosophy of psychology and related confusions ; Philosophy of mind, if there is one -- What makes a problem "moral" ; Medicine and the value of life ; On the nature of law ; Justice and just wars ; Aesthetics: Beauty without observers ; God: Really?
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