Philosophy And Religion In The West Dvds: The Teaching Company (the Great Courses)

Presents an introduction to the history of Western civilization's religious and philosophical traditions. Abstract: Presents an introduction to the history of Western civilization's religious and philosophical traditions Content: lecture 1. Introduction : Philosophy and religion as traditions -- lecture 2. Plato's inquiries : the gods and the good -- lecture 3. Plato's spirituality : the immortal soul and the other world -- lecture 4. Aristotle and Plato : cosmos, contemplation and happiness -- lecture 5. Plotinus : Neoplatonism and the ultimate unity of all-- lecture 6. The Jewish scriptures -- lecture 7. Platonist philsoophy and scriptural religion -- lecture 8. The New Testament : life in Christ -- lecture 9. Rabbinic Judaism : Israel and the Torah -- lecture 10. Church Fathers : the Logos made flesh -- lecture 11. The development of Christian Platonism -- lecture 12. Jewish rationalism and mysticism : Maimonides and Kabbalah. lecture 13. Classical theism : proofs and attributes of God -- lecture 14. Medieval Christian theology : nature and grace -- lecture 15. Late medieval nominalism and Christian mysticism -- lecture 16. Protestantism : problems of grace -- lecture 17. Decartes, Locke, and the crisis of modernity -- lecture 18. Leibniz and theodicy -- lecture 19. Hume's critique of religion -- lecture 20. Kant : reason limited to experience -- lecture 21. Kant : morality as the basis of religion -- lecture 22. Schleiermacher : feeling as the basis of religion. lecture 23. Hegel : a philosophical history of religion -- lecture 24. Marx and the Hermeneutics of suspicion -- lecture 25. Kierkegaard : Existentialism and the leap of faith -- lecture 26. Nietzsche : critic of Christian morality -- lecture 27. Neo-orthodoxy : the subject and object of faith -- lecture 28. Encountering the biblical other : Buber and Levinas -- lecture 29. Process philosophy : God in time -- lecture 30. Logical empiricism and the meaning of religion -- lecture 31. "Reformed" epistemology and the rationality of belief -- lecture 32. Conclusion : philosophy and religion today. From the rise of Greek philosophy to the postmodern era, the traditions of philosophy and religion in Western thought have been, at different times: separate and non-competitive; allies; open antagonists. The course traces this historically shifting and often uneasy relationship, examining how philosophy and religion have interacted to address fundamental questions of religious belief, including existence, the concept of God, creation, sin, mercy, redemption, and man's relationship with the infinite. Invoking the writing of the greatest Greek, Jewish, and Christian thinkers as well as "modern" philosophers like Hume, Kant, Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, and others, this course casts new light on the entire Greco-Judeo-Christian belief system of the Western tradition