TTC Video – The Big Questions of Philosophy

TTC Video – The Big Questions of Philosophy

We have all pondered seemingly unanswerably but significant questions about our existence-the biggest of all being, “Why are we here?” Philosophy has developed over millennia to help us grapple with these essential intangibles. There is no better way to study the big questions in philosophy than to compare how the world’s greatest minds have analyzed these questions, defined the terms, and then reasoned out potential solutions. Once you’ve compared the arguments, the final step is always deciding for yourself whether you find an explanation convincing.
Prof. David Kyle Johnson, Ph.D. – University of Oklahoma
TTC / TGC Course No. 4130

The philosophers who have confronted these mysteries include Plato, St. Anselm, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Mill, Smith, Marx, Rawls, and Nozick, among many others. And while it is easy to think of philosophy as a catalogue of great names such as these, it is really a collection of big questions and the arguments that try to answer them.

The Big Questions of Philosophy is your chance to engage in this intellectually exciting pursuit as you address issues that have preoccupied great minds for millennia. Your guide is philosopher David Kyle Johnson, an award-winning teacher and nationally recognized scholar, author, speaker, and blogger, who is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at King’s College in Pennsylvania.

Lectures:
01. How Do We Do Philosophy?
02. Why Should We Trust Reason?
03. How Do We Reason Carefully?
04. How Do We Find the Best Explanation?
05. What Is Truth?
06. Is Knowledge Possible?
07. What Is the Best Way to Gain Knowledge?
08. Do We Know What Knowledge Is?
09. When Can We Trust Testimony?
12. Can Mystical Experience Justify Belief?
11. Is Faith Ever Rational?
12. Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
13. What Is God Like?
14. How Could God Allow Moral Evil?
15. Why Would God Cause Natural Evil?
16. Are Freedom and Foreknowledge Compatible?
17. Do Our Souls Make Us Free?
18. What Does It Mean to Be Free?
19. What Preserves Personal Identity?
20. Are Persons Mere Minds?
21. Are Persons Just Bodies?
22. Are You Really You?
23. How Does the Brain Produce the Mind?
24. What Do Minds Do, If Anything?
25. Could Machines Think?
26. Does God Define the Good?
27. Does Happiness Define the Good?
28. Does Reason Define the Good?
29. How Ought We to Live?
30. Why Bother Being Good?
31. Should Government Exist?
32. What Justifies a Government?
33. How Big Should Government Be?
34. What Are the Limits of Liberty?
35. What Makes a Society Fair or Just?
36. What Is the Meaning of Life?

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