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For 3,000 years, mankind has grappled with fundamental questions about life. What's real? Who or what's God? When is it legitimate for just one person to own vitality over others? What's justice? Beauty? This 84-lecture, 12-teacher tour of Western philosophical tradition covers more than 60 of history's ideal intellects and brings you a comprehensive survey of the annals of Western philosophy from its origins in traditional Greece for this. It had taken 3,000 years for the question chronicled in these lectures to reach maturity. With this series of lectures, you can encompass it by the end of next month. You'll travel chronologically through the annals of the , the burkha, charting the intriguing development of European philosophy and attracting fascinating associations between thinkers segregated by the gulf of their time and space. You'll acquaint yourself with the Greek Pre-Socratics (the world's first scientific thinkers) and look at in detail the insights of three towering information: Socrates, his university student Plato, and Plato's university student, Aristotle. You'll look at the contributions to philosophy from biblical traditions and the fantastic intellects of the Christian age. Then, you'll recognise the critical schism that developed between the claims of trust and those of science and take part in the breathless finding found during the Enlightenment, which reveled in the new independence of human probable and scientific expansion. You'll examine the provocative philosophical replies (by the Existentialists yet others) to the obstacles elevated by the new scientific consciousness. And you will conclude with a synopsis of the work of Derrida and other overdue 20th-century philosophers and theorists. The full set of lecturers includes Professors Alan Charles Kors, Darren Staloff, Dennis Dalton, Douglas Kellner, Jeremy Adams, Jeremy Shearmur, Kathleen M. Higgins, Louis Markos, Tag Risjord, Phillip Cary, Robert C. Solomon, and Robert H. Kane.