Record details

• ISBN: 9781629972374
• ISBN: 1629972371
• Physical Description: 18 audio discs ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook
• Edition: Unabridged.
• Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2016]

Content descriptions

General Note:

Course no. 4130.

Thirty-six lectures, 30 min. each.

Title from container.

Formatted Contents Note:

How do we do philosophy? ; Why should we trust reason? ; How do we reason carefully? ; How do we find the best explanation? ; What is truth? ; Is knowledge possible? -- What is the best way to gain knowledge? ; Do we know what knowledge is? ; When can we trust testimony? ; Can mystical experience justify belief? ; Is faith ever rational? ; Why is there something rather than nothing? -- What is God like? ; How could God allow moral evil? ; Why would God cause natural evil? ; Are freedom and foreknowledge compatible? ; Do our souls make us free? ; What does it mean to be free? -- What preserves personal identity? ; Are persons mere minds? ; Are persons just bodies? ; Are you really you? ; How does the brain produce the mind? ; What do minds do, if anything? -- Could machines think? ; Does God define the good? ; Does happiness define the good? ; Does reason define the good? ; How ought we to live? ; Why bother being good? -- Should government exist? ; What justifies a government? ; How big should government be? ; What are the limits of liberty? ; What makes a society fair or just? ; What is the meaning of life?

Participant or Performer Note:

David Kyle Johnson, King's College, lecturer.

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Subject:

Philosophy, Modern.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Philosophie ancienne.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Philosophy, Modern.

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lectures.
Lectures.
Audiobooks.
Lectures.
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