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Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Six professional philosophers (Mark Bevir, Patricia Churchland, Brian Epstein, Nita Farahany, Angie Hobbs, Scott Soames, Susan Wolf) demonstrate the relevance of philosophy to a wide range of other disciplines such as economics, political science, law and cognitive science.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Covenant Code contains some of the oldest laws of ancient Israel. Read the Code's many laws, on subjects from religious regulations to social justice, noting that they are considered divine in origin. Compare the Code to the laws of other ancient Near Eastern societies. Learn how, more than legal codes, the laws functioned as moral education regarding notions of human justice.
Publisher
The Green Interview
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This episode of the Green Interview features Michelle Maloney, a lawyer and National Convenor of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance, an organization she co-founded in 2011 to carry out research and education that furthers the understanding, development and practical application of ‘Earth jurisprudence’ and ‘wild law’ in Australia. She is also the Australian representative on the Executive Committee of the Global Alliance for the Rights of...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Learn about the huge canon of Hindu sutras, shastras, Puranas, and Tantra. Delve into two highly influential texts: the Laws of Manu, outlining rules, customs and guidelines for living for the four Indian castes; and the beloved Bhagavad Gita, which speaks to matters of spiritual insight, social obligation, and worldly success.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The laws of physics have been invoked on both sides of the debate over the existence of God. Professor Gimbel closes the series by tracing the history of this dispute, from Newton’s belief in a Creator to today’s discussion of the “fine-tuning” of nature’s constants and whether God is responsible. Such big questions in physics inevitably bring us back to the roots of physics: philosophy.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
What is the likelihood that we are living in a simulated world right now? Some philosophers, using laws of subjective probability, would say it may actually be much higher than you might think. Examine the film The Thirteenth Floor and understand how creating a convincing simulated world could alter our conception of reality itself.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Consider the weirdness of time: The laws of physics are time reversable, but we never see time running backwards. Theorists have proposed that the direction of time is connected to the order of the early universe and even that time is an illusion. See how Einstein deepened the mystery with his theory of relativity, which predicts time dilation and the surprising possibility of time travel.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Explore the first version of social contract theory as espoused by Thomas Hobbes, who based his view on moral relativism and a pessimistic state of nature in which there is a war of all against all. Learn why for society to function, according to Hobbes, the people must give up control to the sovereign, upon which no limits can be placed.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This visually beautiful program traces Greek civilization from early Minoan society and describes how Greek literature, art and philiosophy contributed to western civilization. Reviews Greek rivalry with Persia, the growth of democracy in Athens, Solon's laws, and the art and philosophy of Athen's Golden Age.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science through the revolutionary ideas of the Greek philosopher Anaximander Over two millennia ago, the prescient insights of Anaximander paved the way for cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in motion a new way of seeing the world. His legacy includes the revolutionary ideas that the Earth floats in a void, that animals evolved, that...
13) Revelation
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A powerfully affecting story of crime, cover-up and a desperate hunt for justice: Award-winning reporter Sarah Ferguson presents REVELATION, a ground-breaking documentary series on the criminal priests and brothers of the Catholic Church, their crimes laid bare for the first time in their own words.
14) Another Child
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a tale of twisted sex, religion and family, a mother and daughter finally stop fighting and team up - first to overcome their bitter differences; then to try to end a sexual curse that has plagued their family for generations.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Few judges provoke the ire of conservatives more than Thelton Henderson, Senior Judge of the Federal District Court of Northern California. His career in many ways parallels the larger historic arc of the Civil Rights movement and the changing vision of government - from Jim Crow laws to Civil Rights victories and back again with recent attacks on affirmative action. Similarly reflected are the changes and conflicts in judicial philosophy during those...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A second body of Hindu sacred writings encompasses literature, texts that explore the nature of dharma, the eternal laws and principles that give meaning and shape to life. Here, discover two great Indian epics: the Ramayana, a mythic narrative of kingship; and the Mahabharata, a complex story of familial bonds and discord.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
What made Giordano Bruno's ideas on natural philosophy so dangerous to 16th-century thought? Why does his execution represent a failure of the Roman Inquisition to perform its mission to admonish, not punish? What impact did this trial have on another heresy case fifteen years later: that of Galileo?
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
One of the most effective ways of demonstrating religious power is through trial and punishment. Examine the use of law and the meanings of public displays of violence as seen in historical cases of witch hunting and witch trials. Witches, it turns out, are in many ways more reviled than demons.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Your introduction to the thought of Gandhi reveals him as even more radical than Nietzsche. Although a realization of Gandhi's views would admittedly sacrifice many of modernity's benefits, including much of technology, medicine, and law, it is a price he says we must be willing to pay.
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