Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 2nd Edition - The Great Courses

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Lecture One: Introduction to the Problems and Scope of Philiosophy (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Two: The Old Testament (Dr. Robert Oden, Ph.D. President, Kenyon College)

Lecture Three: The Gospels of Mark and Matthew (Elizabeth McNamer, Ph.D., Goggin Professor of Religion, Rocky Mountain College)

Lecture Four: Paul: His World (Elizabeth McNamer, Ph.D., Goggin Professor of Religion, Rocky Mountain College)

Lecture Five: Presocratics: Ionian Speculation and Eleatic Metaphysics (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Six: Republic I: Justice, Power, Knowledge (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Seven: Republic II-V: Soul and City (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Eight: Republic VI-X: The Architecture of Reality (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Nine: Aristotle’s Metaphysical Views (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Ten: Aristotle’s Politics: The Golden Mean and Just Rule (Dennis Dalton, Ph.D., Barnard College, Columbia University.)

Lecture Eleven: Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations: The Stoic Ideal (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Twelve: Augustine’s City of God: Grace, Original Sin, and Theodicy (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Part Two of Six:
The Age of Faith to the Age of Reason

Lecture One: Aquinas and the Scholastic Synthesis (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Two: More’s Utopia: Reason and Social Justice (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Three: Machiavelli’s The Prince: Political Realism, Political Science and the Rennaissance (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Four: Bacon’s New Organon: The Call for a New Science (Alan Kors, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania)

Lecture Five: Descartes’ Epistemology and the Mind-Body Problem (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Six: Hobbes’ Leviathan: Of Man (Dennis Dalton, Ph.D., Barnard College, Columbia University.)

Lecture Seven: Hobbes’ Leviathan: Of the Commonwealth (Dennis Dalton, Ph.D., Barnard College, Columbia University.)

Lecture Eight: Spinoza’s Ethics: Metaphysics and the Path to Salvation (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Nine: The Newtonian Revolution (Alan Kors, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania)

Lecture Ten: The Early Enlightenment and the Search for the Laws of History: Vico’s New Science of History (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Eleven: Pascal’s Pensees (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Twelve: The Philosophy of G. W. Leibniz (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)
Part Three of Six:
The Enlightenment and Its Critics

Lecture One: Locke’s Theory of Knowledge (Alan Kors, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania)

Lecture Two: Locke’s Political Theory (Dennis Dalton, Ph.D., Barnard College, Columbia University.)

Lecture Three: Montesquieu and the Beginnings of Political Science (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Four: Berkeley’s Idealism and the Critique of Materialism (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Five: Hume’s Epistemology (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Six: Hume’s Theory of Morality (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Seven: Smith’s Wealth of Nations (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Eight: Rousseau’s Dissent: The Challenge to the Idea of Progress (Alan Kors, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania)

Lecture Nine: Kant’s “Copernican Revolution”: Epistemology and the Critique of Metaphysics (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Ten: Kant’s Moral Philosophy (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Eleven: Burke and the Birth of Enlightened Conservatism (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Twelve: Naturalism and Materialism: The Boundaries of the Enlightenment (Alan Kors, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania)
Part Four of Six
Philosophy in the Epoch of Ideology

Lecture One: Comte and the Origins of Sociology (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Two: Hegel: The Phenomenology of Geist (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Three: Hegel’s Philosophy of History (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Four: Marx and the Problem of Alienation and Ideology (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Five: Marx’s Historical Materialism (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Six: Kierkegaard”s Christian Existentialism (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Seven: Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Idea (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Eight: The Classical Doctrine of Liberal Democracy: John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty and Utilitarianism (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Nine: William Graham Sumner: The Darwinian Revolution in Social Thought (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Ten: Weber’s Historical Sociology (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Eleven: Freud and Philosophy (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Part Five of Six:
Modernism and the Age of Analysis: Beginnings

Lecture One: Nietzsche’s Critique of Christianity: The Genealogy of Morals (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Two: Nietzsche’s Perspectivalism and the Critique of Philosophy (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Three: James’ Pragmatism (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Four: Gadamer: Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Five: Bergson’s Elan Vital and Vitalism (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Six: John Dewey’s Reconstructtion in Philosophy: The Pragmatic Critique of Traditional Philosophy (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Seven: Levi-Strauss: Structuralist Anthropology (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Eight: Husserl: Phenomenology and the Life-World (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Nine: Martin Heidegger: Being and Time (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Ten: A.J. Ayer’s Language Truth and Logic (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Eleven: The Latter Wittgenstein (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Twelve: The Frankfurt School (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Part Six of Six:
Modernism and the Age of Analysis: Conclusions

Lecture One: Kuhn’s Paradigm Paradigm (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Two: Habermas’s Critical Theory (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Three: Barthes, Semiotics and the Revolt Against Structuralism (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Four: Social Justice and Social Democracy in Contemporary Times: A Theory of Justice by John Rawls (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Five: Alvin Gouldner’s Dark Side of the Dialectic: Social Theory, Renegade Sociology, and Outlaw Marxism (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Six: Foucault: Power, Knowledge, and Post-structuralism (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Seven: Quine’s Ontological Relativism and the End of “Philosophy” (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Eight: Rorty’s Neo-Pragmatism (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Nine: Jean-Francois Lyotard: The Post-modern Condition (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)

Lecture Ten: Conclusion: The Theory of Knowledge and Language (Darren Staloff, Ph.D. City College of New York)

Lecture Eleven: Conclusion: Political, Social and Cultural Criticism and Theory (Michael Sugrue, Ph.D. Princeton University)