Philosophy Guide For Beginners

Learn about Ancient and Modern Philosophers, Movements, and Revolutionary Ideas

What you'll learn

Elements of philosophical history

A myriad of philosophy ideas

Various philosophers, their backgrounds, their lives, and cultural context

New ideas, new thoughts, and insights in perception

Thoughts on politics, society, the economy, existentialism and meaning

Understanding rationalism, metaphysics, stoicism, humanism, and other movements

Become better logical thinkers

Relate our purpose in life, nature, and society

See the relationship between nature and science, biology and our place in the universe

Comprehend religious thought patterns better, such as the Catholic church

See how philosophy has evolved over the centuries

Understand more of the underlying reasoning of feminism, skepticism, and transcendent perspectives

Requirements

Enthusiasm and interest in the topics

Description

For thousands of years, wise men and women have contemplated the universe, the role of people on this planet, and life after death. They've studied scientific phenomena, the essence of things, reasoning, beliefs, fallacies, critical thinking, and the dynamics of economies, societies, culture, human rights, and behavior.Today, you will learn about the most compelling ideas, the most prominent philosophers, and the most controversial debates between those influential figures.Western philosophy has left its mark on history. From ideologists attempting to alter economic systems and structures to wise men from Greece and Rome who discovered truths beyond our imagination, these classes will help you on your journey to become a better critical thinker, a logical, wiser analyst, and someone with a deeper appreciation for life, nature, and the mysteries of the universe.We will dive deeper into philosophical movements such as humanism, rationalism, Marxism, naturalism, deconstructionism, phenomenology, transcendentalism, hedonism, skepticism, metaphysics, epistemology, feminism, stoicism, empiricism, existentialism, and many others. During these classes, I have tried to highlight multiple perspectives and leave things open for discussion.This course will address ideas and biographies of famous philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Zeno, Marcus Aurelius, William of Ockham, Voltaire, Sartre, John Locke, Bertrand Russell, Martha Nussbaum, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hegel, Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Margaret Fuller, Edith Stein, Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Karl Marx, and dozens of others.Please consider learning from history's most gifted, intellectual geniuses. Join me on an adventure to study their inspirational breakthroughs, their occasional fallacies, and their lengthy processes to reach novel conclusions and revolutionary adjustments to society, religion, and science.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Overview and the Concept of Philosophy

Section 2: Ancient Greek Philosophy

Lecture 2 Ancient Greece

Lecture 3 Aristotle

Lecture 4 Plato

Lecture 5 Parmenides

Lecture 6 Thales

Lecture 7 Pythagoras

Lecture 8 Anaxagoras

Lecture 9 Anaximander

Lecture 10 Socrates

Lecture 11 Heraclitus

Lecture 12 Democritus

Lecture 13 Empedocles

Lecture 14 Epicurus

Lecture 15 Diogenes

Section 3: Stoicism

Lecture 16 The Concept

Lecture 17 Zeno

Lecture 18 Cleanthes

Lecture 19 Seneca

Lecture 20 Chrysippus

Lecture 21 Epictetus

Lecture 22 Marcus Aurelius

Section 4: Medieval Philosophy

Lecture 23 Thomas Aquinas

Lecture 24 Augustine of Hippo

Lecture 25 Anselm of Canterbury

Lecture 26 Peter Abelard

Lecture 27 Boethius

Lecture 28 John Duns Scotus

Lecture 29 William of Ockham

Lecture 30 Bonaventure

Section 5: Enlightenment Philosophy

Lecture 31 What Was the Enlightenment?

Lecture 32 Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Lecture 33 John Stuart Mill

Lecture 34 Baruch Spinoza

Lecture 35 Voltaire

Lecture 36 Adam Smith

Section 6: Existentialism

Lecture 37 The Concept of Existentialism

Lecture 38 Jean-Paul Sartre

Lecture 39 Simone Weil

Lecture 40 Albert Camus

Lecture 41 Martin Heidegger

Lecture 42 Gabriel Marcel

Lecture 43 Simone de Beauvoir

Section 7: Postmodernism

Lecture 44 The Basis

Lecture 45 Michel Foucault

Lecture 46 Jean-François Lyotard

Section 8: Utilitarianism

Lecture 47 What Is Utilitarianism?

Lecture 48 Jeremy Bentham

Lecture 49 Peter Singer

Lecture 50 Henry Sidgwick

Section 9: Liberalism

Lecture 51 Background for Liberalism

Lecture 52 John Locke

Lecture 53 Montesquieu

Lecture 54 Thomas Hobbes

Lecture 55 Isaiah Berlin

Lecture 56 John Rawls

Section 10: Analytic Philosophy

Lecture 57 The Concept

Lecture 58 Ludwig Wittgenstein

Lecture 59 Bertrand Russell

Section 11: Feminist Philosophy

Lecture 60 Mary Wollstonecraft

Lecture 61 Martha Nussbaum

Section 12: Nihilism

Lecture 62 The Idea of Nihilism

Lecture 63 Friedrich Nietzsche

Lecture 64 Arthur Schopenhauer

Lecture 65 Emil Cioran

Section 13: Idealism

Lecture 66 What Is Idealism?

Lecture 67 Friedrich Schelling

Lecture 68 Hegel

Lecture 69 Josiah Royce

Lecture 70 Bernard Bosanquet

Lecture 71 George Berkeley

Section 14: Empiricism

Lecture 72 The Concept

Lecture 73 Ayer

Lecture 74 Francis Bacon

Section 15: Rationalism

Lecture 75 Rationalist Thinkers

Lecture 76 René Descartes

Lecture 77 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Lecture 78 Immanuel Kant

Section 16: Pragmatism

Lecture 79 The Basics of Pragmatism

Lecture 80 Charles Sanders Peirce

Lecture 81 William James

Lecture 82 John Dewey

Lecture 83 Richard Rorty

Section 17: Metaphysics

Lecture 84 Aristotle on Metaphysics

Lecture 85 Immanuel Kant on Metaphysics

Section 18: Skepticism

Lecture 86 The Movement

Lecture 87 Pyrrho of Elis

Lecture 88 Sextus Empiricus

Lecture 89 Michel de Montaigne

Lecture 90 G.E. Moore

Lecture 91 Richard Popkin

Section 19: Hedonism

Lecture 92 Pleasure and Joy

Lecture 93 Epicurus on Hedonism

Lecture 94 Cyrenaics

Lecture 95 Jeremy Bentham

Lecture 96 Aristippus of Cyrene

Lecture 97 Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Section 20: Cynicism

Lecture 98 More Than Negativity

Lecture 99 Antisthenes

Lecture 100 Crates of Thebes

Lecture 101 Menippus

Section 21: Transcendentalism

Lecture 102 Divine Nature

Lecture 103 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lecture 104 Henry David Thoreau

Lecture 105 Margaret Fuller

Lecture 106 Amos Bronson Alcott

Lecture 107 Louisa May Alcott

Section 22: Structuralism

Lecture 108 Behavior due to Systems

Lecture 109 Ferdinand de Saussure

Lecture 110 Claude Lévi-Strauss

Lecture 111 Roman Jakobson

Lecture 112 Roland Barthes

Lecture 113 Jacques Lacan

Section 23: Phenomenology

Lecture 114 The Concept

Lecture 115 Edmund Husserl

Lecture 116 Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Lecture 117 Edith Stein

Section 24: Deconstructionism

Lecture 118 Jacques Derrida

Lecture 119 Paul de Man

Lecture 120 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Lecture 121 J. Hillis Miller

Section 25: Naturalism

Lecture 122 What It Is

Lecture 123 Émile Zola

Lecture 124 Frank Norris

Lecture 125 Émile Durkheim

Lecture 126 Stephen Crane

Section 26: Humanism

Lecture 127 The Idea of Humanism

Lecture 128 Petrarch

Lecture 129 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Lecture 130 Desiderius Erasmus

Lecture 131 Leonardo da Vinci

Lecture 132 Baldassare Castiglione

Lecture 133 Sir Thomas More

Section 27: Marxism

Lecture 134 Equality for the Classes

Lecture 135 Karl Marx

Lecture 136 Vladimir Lenin

Lecture 137 Friedrich Engels

Lecture 138 Rosa Luxemburg

Lecture 139 Antonio Gramsci

Lecture 140 Leon Trotsky

Lecture 141 Louis Althusser

Lecture 142 Herbert Marcuse

Lecture 143 Ernest Mandel

Section 28: Critical Theory

Lecture 144 The Essence of the Theory

Lecture 145 Max Horkheimer

Lecture 146 Theodor Adorno

Lecture 147 Walter Benjamin

Lecture 148 Erich Fromm

Lecture 149 Jürgen Habermas

Section 29: Closing Thoughts

Lecture 150 Critical Thinking

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