Author: Charleton Heston (Narrator) A. E. Taylor
Publisher: Knowledge Products
Keywords: philosophy, library, giants, products, knowledge, aristotle
Published: 2006-04-01
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ISBN-10: 0786169443
ISBN-13: 9780786169443

Few philosophers have so extensively influenced thought and language as Aristotle. His conception of the universe pervades Christian theology. Knowledge of his thought is necessary to understand Bacon, Galileo, and the modern scientific view of nature, as well as Dante and many passages from Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton. Many phrases such as "liberal education" and "theory" contrasted with "practice" originated with this student of Plato and tutor of Alexander the Great. Writing to inform the beginner and stimulate the expert, eminent scholar A. E. Taylor presents a searching anal

Author: Charleton Heston (Narrator) Professor R. J. O̵
Publisher: Knowledge Products
Keywords: library, augustine
Published: 2006-05-01
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ISBN-10: 0786169338
ISBN-13: 9780786169337

St. Augustine (354-430 A.D.) was the first great systematic Christian philosopher. He attempted to combine the philosophical insights of Plato with the faith explicated in the Bible. Augustine thought of Plato s eternal forms as ideas in the mind of God; he believed that the Eternal Christ provides the light of knowledge to the human mind. For Augustine, every time we make a judgment of relative value, we implicitly acknowledge an absolute standard of value, which is God. His Confessions constitutes one of the timeless statements of faith and self-surrender. The Giants of Philosophy Se

Author: Charleton Heston (Narrator) Professor John Compton
Publisher: Knowledge Products
Keywords: giants, philosophy, library, products, knowledge, paul, sartre, jean
Published: 2006-04-01
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ISBN-10: 0786169427
ISBN-13: 9780786169429

Jean-Paul Sartre, a French philosopher, is perhaps the best known advocate of existentialism. In this view, no external authority gives life meaning: mankind is radically free and responsible. In every moment we choose ourselves, with no assurance that we have a continuing identity or power. We set up determinisms to ease our minds, but in the face of the finality of death, only through our present consciousness do we establish our own authentic existence. Sartre’s existentialism faces the evil in human existence and sees that humans are responsible for it. He doubts mankind ca

Author: Lynn Redgrave
Publisher: Knowledge Products
Keywords: philosophy, world, socrates
Published: 1997-03
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ISBN-10: 1568230362
ISBN-13: 9781568230368

Though he left no written works Socrates was the first great philosopher of the West. His conversations and dramatic death in ancient A thens were recorded by a number of writers (including Plate); they show that Socrates was deeply interested in self-knowledge and virtue. Socrates also believed in the rule of law even refusing to flee when he was condemned to death. His ceaseless questionings have set timeless standards for the relentless pursuit of truth

Author: Charleton Heston (Narrator) Professor Thomas Cook
Publisher: Knowledge Products
Keywords: philosophy, library, giants, products, spinoza, knowledge, baruch
Published: 2006-04-01
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ISBN-10: 0786169397
ISBN-13: 9780786169399

A Portuguese Jew living in Holland, Spinoza was excommunicated because of the unorthodox view he took of God. Spinoza wrote in the rationalist style of a geometric proof to develop his idea of God as the infinite, indwelling cause of all things, a unified causal system that is virtually synonymous with nature. In this system, there is no free will, for all things are necessary and inevitable, and all objects, including humans, are part of God’s active self-expression. Our minds can participate in the eternity of God by focusing on natural laws and the way all things follow from God or na

Author: Charleton Heston (Narrator) Mark Stone
Publisher: Knowledge Products
Keywords: philosophy, library, giants, products, schopenhauer, knowledge, arthur
Published: 2006-04-01
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ISBN-10: 0786169400
ISBN-13: 9780786169405

Arthur Schopenhauer was the most articulate and influential pessimist in the history of human thought. He was convinced that the space and time of ordinary life is an illusion, that the world consists of two aspects: representation (visible appearances) and will (hidden reality). Will is a unitary, blind, irrational force underlying all nature and expressing itself throughout it. Since human actions are blindly propelled by this will, not reason, prescriptive ethical rules have little force. We flourish only at each other s expense; evil, pain, and suffering are not aberrations, but express th

Author: Charleton Heston (Narrator) Nicholas Capaldi
Publisher: Knowledge Products
Keywords: philosophy, library, giants, products, hume, knowledge, david
Published: 2006-04-01
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ISBN-10: 0786169389
ISBN-13: 9780786169382

David Hume (1711-1776) represented the culmination of the British philosophy of sense-experience. Although he lived in the age of reason, Hume had profound doubts about our ability to know anything in the world with certainty. This skepticism colored his view of science and gave rise to his devastating attack on proofs of the existence of God. Hume believed that values are neither objective nor universal, but nevertheless was optimistic about human nature and our ability to achieve decency in our actions. The Giants of Philosophy is a series of dramatic presentations, in understandable