Introduction
CHAPTERS
00:59 What this Course Is
02:31 How to Succeed in the Class
05:11 How to Use this Podcast
Mary Midgley
READING
What is Philosophy For?, excerpts from sections 1-13
CHAPTERS
02:13 Introduction
06:03 Section 1 (pattern creation)
09:06 Section 2 (Socrates)
14:03 Section 4 (learning how to think…
Plato
READING
Republic, Book 7, 514a-518d
CHAPTERS
01:08 Introduction
02:49 Branches of Philosophy
04:22 Allegory of the Cave
32:45 Analogy of the Divided Line
56:24 Conclusion
Epictetus
READING
Discourses, Book I, excerpts from chapters 1, 2, 4, 15, and 24
CHAPTERS
01:10 Introduction
02:41 Stoic Metaphysics
07:46 Stoic Happiness
14:09 Stoic Theory of Emotions
29:08 Excerpts from…
Rene Descartes
READING
Meditations on First Philosophy, excerpts from Meditations I & II
CHAPTERS
03:49 Introduction
06:25 Meditation I Begins
17:49 1st Thought Experiment (Dreaming)
28:28 2nd Thought Experimen…
David Hume
READING
A Treatise of Human Nature, Book 1, chapters 1-3
CHAPTERS
01:42 Introduction
06:25 Impressions & Ideas
08:37 Simple & Complex Impressions
13:14 Simple Ideas & Simple Impressions
17:26 I…
Immanuel Kant
READING
Critique of Pure Reason, excerpts from Introduction B
CHAPTERS
01:55 Introduction
15:45 The Hume Problem
23:47 A priori & A posteriori Judgments
28:04 Synthetic & Analytic Judgments
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