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Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (approximately 1,080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (160 pages ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
"[This series] is an epic, comprehensive survey of the East's most influential philosophers and thinkers. In 36 lectures, [the student will be introduced to] the men and women responsible for molding Asian philosophy and for giving birth to a wide variety of spiritual and ideological systems, including Hinduism, Daoism, Confucianism, Sufism, and Buddhism."--Www.thegreatcourses.com.
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
527 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Philosophy explores the deepest, most fundamental questions of reality and this accessible and entertaining chronology presents 250 milestones of the most important theories, events, and seminal publications in the field over the last 3,500 years. The brief, engaging entries cover a range of topics and cultures, from the Hindu Vedas and Plato's theory of forms to Ockham's razor, Pascal's wager, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, existentialism, feminism,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigates the roots of philosophy, when it was still blended with science, and profiles five philosophers from the distant past, considering how their thinking contributed to society and civilizations.
14) Children's book of philosophy: an introduction to the world's great thinkers and their big ideas
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
141 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores philosophy and notable philosophers, discussing "thought experiments, " and how to explain a complex idea through a story.
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 13
Language
English
Description
"One of the author's most beloved characters is back--and once again she will have to call upon her powers of deduction and her unflappable moral code to unravel a new philosophical mystery. In Edinburgh, rumors and gossip abound. But Isabel well knows that such things can't be taken at face value. Still, the latest whispers hint at mysterious goings-on, and who but Isabel can be trusted to get to the bottom of them? At the same time, she must deal...
16) The story of philosophy: the lives and opinions of the greater philosophers of the western world
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1961]
Edition
[second edition].
Physical Desc
xvi, 412 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
18) The Turin horse
Publisher
Cinema Guild Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
On January 3, 1889 in Turin, Italy, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via Carlo Albert. Not far from him, a cab driver is having trouble with a stubborn horse. The horse refuses to move, whereupon the driver loses his patience and takes his whip to it. Nietzsche puts an end to the brutal scene, throwing his arms around the horse's neck, sobbing. Afterwards, he lies motionless and silent for two days on a divan, until he loses...
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