Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 From the Upanishads to Homer
- Season 1 Philosophy—Did the Greeks Invent It?
- Season 1 Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number
- Season 1 What Is There?
- Season 1 The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate
- Season 1 Herodotus and the Lamp of History
- Season 1 Socrates on the Examined Life
- Season 1 Plato's Search For Truth
- Season 1 Can Virtue Be Taught?
- Season 1 Plato's Republic—Man Writ Large
- Season 1 Hippocrates and the Science of Life
- Season 1 Aristotle on the Knowable
- Season 1 Aristotle on Friendship
- Season 1 Aristotle on the Perfect Life
- Season 1 Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law
- Season 1 The Stoic Bridge to Christianity
- Season 1 Roman Law—Making a City of the Once-Wide World
- Season 1 The Light Within—Augustine on Human Nature
- Season 1 Islam
- Season 1 Secular Knowledge—The Idea of University
- Season 1 The Reappearance of Experimental Science
- Season 1 Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law
- Season 1 The Renaissance—Was There One?
- Season 1 Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them
- Season 1 Francis Bacon and the Authority of Experience
- Season 1 Descartes and the Authority of Reason
- Season 1 Newton—The Saint of Science
- Season 1 Hobbes and the Social Machine
- Season 1 Locke’s Newtonian Science of the Mind
- Season 1 No matter? The Challenge of Materialism
- Season 1 Hume and the Pursuit of Happiness
- Season 1 Thomas Reid and the Scottish School
- Season 1 France and the Philosophes
- Season 1 The Federalist Papers and the Great Experiment
- Season 1 What Is Enlightenment? Kant on Freedom
- Season 1 Moral Science and the Natural World
- Season 1 Phrenology—A Science of the Mind
- Season 1 The Idea of Freedom
- Season 1 The Hegelians and History
- Season 1 The Aesthetic Movement—Genius
- Season 1 Nietzsche at the Twilight
- Season 1 The Liberal Tradition—J. S. Mill
- Season 1 Darwin and Nature’s “Purposes”
- Season 1 Marxism—Dead But Not Forgotten
- Season 1 The Freudian World
- Season 1 The Radical William James
- Season 1 William James's Pragmatism
- Season 1 Wittgenstein and the Discursive Turn
- Season 1 Alan Turing in the Forest of Wisdom
- Season 1 Four Theories of the Good Life
- Season 1 Ontology—What There "Really" Is
- Season 1 Philosophy of Science—The Last Word?
- Season 1 Philosophy of Psychology and Related Confusions
- Season 1 Philosophy of Mind, If There Is One
- Season 1 What makes a Problem “Moral”
- Season 1 Medicine and the Value of Life
- Season 1 On the Nature of Law
- Season 1 Justice and Just Wars
- Season 1 Aesthetics—Beauty Without Observers
- Season 1 God—Really?
The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition - Season 1 Episode 26 Descartes and the Authority of Reason
0.00 30 minutes Descartes is remembered for "I think, therefore I am." With his work, the authority of revelation, history, and title was replaced by the weight of reason itself.
