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This provocative course will hold the attention of believers, skeptics, and agnostics alike. While your mind may not be changed, it will definitely be put to work....

As you make your way through these lectures, you'll discover that Nietzsche, even at his most polemical and offensive, exudes an unmistakable enthusiasm and love of life....

Professor Kramer tackles the major intellectual themes and debates that decisively shaped 20th-century European culture....

The contemporary issues you'll consider include conflicts between public and private morality, the degree to which the law should enforce morality, and more....

It is easy to forget that questions about fundamental issues like justice, injustice, virtue, vice, or happiness were not always eternal. They once had to be asked for the first time....

Examining founding documents, such as the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence, and the U.S. Constitution, Professor Robinson considers the principles under which the United States evolved....

Professor Dalton explores the meaning of freedom and examines the progress of both personal and political freedom....

The more we puzzle over the nature of emotions, the deeper their mystery. It is a mystery that is by no means solved, but one that repays in careful, philosophical analysis....

In this course, you will delve deeply into the philosophical underpinnings of the nation, forged by the Puritans and the leaders of the American Revolution....

Explopre a course that requires no prior background in philosophy and avoids the often-intimidating language in which serious philosophy can be expressed....

Western philosophy is a vast intellectual tradition, the product of thousands of years of revolutionary thought. But to understand the Western intellectual tradition is to get only half the story....

Is reality stable? What is happiness? How shall we best live our lives? In this series of 24 lectures, Professor Roochnik invites you to join this eternal discussion....

In the 19th century, Europe was the crucible for most of the ideas, institutions, and "isms" that now shape the life of our entire planet....

You'll witness in its tumultuous history of the 17th and 18th-century mind, as wielded by the likes of thinkers like Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, Newton, Locke, Hume, and more....

Follow the origin of new ways of thinking-ideas we today take for granted but are startlingly recent-about the individual and society....

This great philosopher can help you deepen and improve your own thinking on questions of morality and leading the best life....

As these 36 lectures demonstrate, America has borne the imprint of influential thinkers, from the Reformation theology of John Calvin to the Enlightenment philosophy of John Locke....

Beginning in the 16th century, philosophers began constructing a universal rationality independent of faith....

Mention the name Niccolò Machiavelli and you might unleash a powerful response - even among people who have never read a word of his writing....

You'll follow this Enlightenment thinker's 84 astoundingly productive years and go inside not only his masterpiece, but his hundreds of other works....