Aspects of Western Philosophy

Lectures

Aspects of Western Philosophy

1. Greek Philosophy: Ionians, Pythagoras, Parmenides, Heraclitus and Democritus Video
2. Sophists, Socrates; philosophy of man; relativism and subjectivism; the idea of good Video
3. Platos idealism: theory of ideas Video
4. Plato: theory of knowledge, method of dialectic; theory of soul Video
5. Aristotles criticism of Platonic idealism and the concepts of Form and Matter Video
6. Aristotles theory of causation; potentiality and actuality Video
7. Medieval philosophy: St. Augustine and the Problem of evil; St. Thomas Aquinass concepts of faith and reason; proofs for the existence of God. Video
8. Modern Philosophy: mail characteristic features; renaissance and scientific revolution; rationalism and empiricism: main features. Video
9. Descartes: the method in philosophy; the concepts of doubt and indubitable knowledge. Video
10. Descartes: the mind-body dualism; the concept of God and proofs for Gods existence Video
11. Spinoza: the concepts of Substance, attributes and modes. Video
12. Spinozas pantheism-God and nature Video
13. Leibniz: Monadology; the mind-body problem revisited; concept of God; the concept of pre-established harmony Video
14. The empiricism of John Locke: ideas and their classification; refutation of innate ideas Video
15. John Locke: theory of knowledge; concept of substance; the primary and secondary qualities Video
16. Berkeley: the refutation of the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, immaterialism Video
17. Berkeleys critique of abstract ideas, esse est percipi, the problem of solipsism; God and self Video
18. Hume : Impressions and ideas, knowledge concerning relations of ideas and knowledge concerning matters of fact, induction and causality. Video
19. The external world and the self, personal identity, rejection of metaphysics, scepticism, reason and the passions. Video
20. Critical Philosophy: characteristic features; kantd objectives: the classification of judgements, possibility of synthetic a priori judgements, the Copernican revolution Video
21. Kant: forms of sensibility, categories of understanding; the process of knowledge acquisition; phenomenon and noumenon, Video
22. The Ideas of Reason-soul, God and world as a whole; antinomies; rejection of speculative metaphysics. Video
23. Kants ethics; freedom and immortality, problems with Kant. Video
24. Hegel : The conception of Geist (spirit), the dialectical method, concepts of being, non-being and becoming, Video
25. Absolute idealism; consciousness, self consciousness and reason. Video
26. Karl Marx: historical materialism; the significance of the proletariat; the base structure-superstructure division. Video
27. Nietzsche : Critique of western culture, religion and morality; will to power; the idea of superman. Video
28. Linguistic turn in British philosophy: Russells logical atomism and the refutation of idealism. Video
29. Wittgenstein : early Wittgensteins conception of language and reality; the picture theory of meaning Video
30. Later Wittgensteins conception of language games and forms of life; meaning and use. Video
31. Logical positivism; against metaphysics and a scientific conception of philosophy; the limitation of logical positivism Video
32. Husserl : Phenomenology and the methods of reduction; the principle of intentionality. Video
33. Phenomenological reduction, eidetic reduction and transcendental reduction; transcendental subjectivity; the pure subject. Video
34. Heidegger : phenomenological hermeneutics; concept of Being; man as being-in-the-world; destruction of the western intellectual tradition. Video
35. Authentic and inauthentic existence; Truth as disclosure Video
36. Existentialism: main features; existence precedes essence; freedom and responsibility; finiteness and situatedness of human existence Video
37. Sartres conception of human existence; man is condemned to be free; rejection of essentialism Video
38. The concept of being-in-itself, being-for-itself and being-for-others Video
39. Postmodernism: major trends and chief characteristic features; conceptions of human subject; different postmodern approaches Video
40. Deconstruction, feminism, discourse theory etc. Video