• TheTVDB.com Season ID 828514
  • Created October 2, 2019
  • Modified February 8, 2025
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Name First Aired Runtime Image
S01E01 From the Upanishads to Homer
January 1, 2004
The Great Courses
30
S01E02 Philosophy—Did the Greeks Invent It?
February 8, 2004
30
S01E03 Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number
February 8, 2004
30
S01E04 What Is There?
February 8, 2004
30
S01E05 The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate
February 8, 2004
30
S01E06 Herodotus and the Lamp of History
February 8, 2004
30
S01E07 Socrates on the Examined Life
February 8, 2004
30
S01E08 Plato's Search For Truth
February 8, 2004
30
S01E09 Can Virtue Be Taught?
February 8, 2004
30
S01E10 Plato's Republic—Man Writ Large
February 8, 2004
30
S01E11 Hippocrates and the Science of Life
February 8, 2004
30
S01E12 Aristotle on the Knowable
February 8, 2004
30
S01E13 Aristotle on Friendship
February 8, 2004
30
S01E14 Aristotle on the Perfect Life
February 8, 2004
30
S01E15 Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law
February 8, 2004
30
S01E16 The Stoic Bridge to Christianity
February 8, 2004
30
S01E17 Roman Law—Making a City of the Once-Wide World
February 8, 2004
30
S01E18 The Light Within—Augustine on Human Nature
February 8, 2004
30
S01E19 Islam
February 8, 2004
30
S01E20 Secular Knowledge—The Idea of University
February 8, 2004
30
S01E21 The Reappearance of Experimental Science
February 8, 2004
30
S01E22 Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law
February 8, 2004
30
S01E23 The Renaissance—Was There One?
February 8, 2004
30
S01E24 Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them
February 8, 2004
30
S01E25 Francis Bacon and the Authority of Experience
February 8, 2025
30
S01E26 Descartes and the Authority of Reason
February 8, 2004
30
S01E27 Newton—The Saint of Science
February 8, 2004
30
S01E28 Hobbes and the Social Machine
February 8, 2004
30
S01E29 Locke’s Newtonian Science of the Mind
February 8, 2004
30
S01E30 No matter? The Challenge of Materialism
February 8, 2004
30
S01E31 Hume and the Pursuit of Happiness
February 8, 2004
30
S01E32 Thomas Reid and the Scottish School
February 8, 2004
30
S01E33 France and the Philosophes
February 8, 2004
30
S01E34 The Federalist Papers and the Great Experiment
February 8, 2004
30
S01E35 What Is Enlightenment? Kant on Freedom
February 8, 2004
30
S01E36 Moral Science and the Natural World
February 8, 2004
30
S01E37 Phrenology—A Science of the Mind
February 8, 2004
30
S01E38 The Idea of Freedom
February 8, 2004
30
S01E39 The Hegelians and History
February 8, 2004
30
S01E40 The Aesthetic Movement—Genius
February 8, 2004
30
S01E41 Nietzsche at the Twilight
February 8, 2004
30
S01E42 The Liberal Tradition—J. S. Mill
February 8, 2004
30
S01E43 Darwin and Nature’s “Purposes”
February 8, 2004
30
S01E44 Marxism—Dead But Not Forgotten
February 8, 2004
30
S01E45 The Freudian World
February 8, 2004
30
S01E46 The Radical William James
February 8, 2004
30
S01E47 William James's Pragmatism
February 8, 2004
30
S01E48 Wittgenstein and the Discursive Turn
February 8, 2004
30
S01E49 Alan Turing in the Forest of Wisdom
February 8, 2004
30
S01E50 Four Theories of the Good Life
February 8, 2004
30
S01E51 Ontology—What There "Really" Is
February 8, 2004
30
S01E52 Philosophy of Science—The Last Word?
February 8, 2004
30
S01E53 Philosophy of Psychology and Related Confusions
February 8, 2004
30
S01E54 Philosophy of Mind, If There Is One
February 8, 2004
30
S01E55 What makes a Problem "Moral"
February 8, 2004
30
S01E56 Medicine and the Value of Life
February 8, 2004
30
S01E57 On the Nature of Law
February 8, 2004
30
S01E58 Justice and Just Wars
February 8, 2004
30
S01E59 Aesthetics—Beauty Without Observers
February 8, 2004
30
S01E60 God—Really?
season finale
February 8, 2004
30

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