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    Philosophy as a Guide to Living<br /> (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)<br /> Course No. 4244 Taught by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.teach12.com/store/professor.asp?ID=313&amp;d=Stephen+A%2E+Erickson">Stephen A. Erickson</a><br /> Pomona College<br /> Ph.D., Yale University<br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">s there a meaning to human life? </span> All of ushave asked ourselves this question. But for philosophers through theages, it was only the first of many, for they needed to know whethersuch a question was even <span style="font-style: italic;">answerable </span> by philosophy. And if itwas, they needed to ask whether any positive answer could be pursuedthrough the practice of philosophy itself. <br /> Today, thesequestions remain as timely and controversial as ever. But following thepathway of proposed answers on anything other than a level surface—nomatter how fascinating we find the subject—can often be difficult forthose untrained in philosophy and the profound rigor of its argumentsand language. <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Provocative, Accessible Lectures </span><br /> What a delight, then, to be able to offer Professor Stephen A. Erickson's <span style="font-weight: bold;">Philosophy as a Guide to Living </span>—a thoughtful, stimulating, and most important, <span style="font-style: italic;">accessible </span>discussion of how some of the greatest minds of the past threecenturies have pondered why we are here and what journey we might beon. <br /> It's a chance for you to take your own journey, asProfessor Erickson guides you along the intellectual road traveled bypost-Enlightenment thinkers such as Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, andother European philosophers. These ideas persist to the present day, ascontemporary philosophers have taken up the intellectual route soirresistible to the likes of later intellectuals—Marx, Kierkegaard,Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, Foucault, and Habermas. <br /> Eachone, says Professor Erickson, “speaks in important ways to the time inwhich we now find ourselves. They are concerned with exploring thelimits of human reason and are focused on the likely course of history.These philosophers tend also to pay close attention to our lives <span style="font-style: italic;">in </span> the world, enmeshed in culture and questing after significant opportunities for self-understanding and personal development.” <br /> Mostimportant, you can comprehend what each has to say equipped only withyour own intellect, curiosity, and fascination with the course'scentral question. Professor Erickson has designed a course thatrequires no prior background in philosophy and avoids theoften-intimidating language in which serious philosophy can beexpressed. And he has done so without diminishing the extraordinaryintellectual depth that each of the philosophers included here bring tothe debate. <br /> Anyone who has ever studied philosophy atlength will understand what a remarkable achievement this course is.From his first lecture, when he removes any threat of confusion aboutthe “axial model of understanding”—one of the few technical terms usedin these lectures—it is clear that this is a different kind ofphilosophy course. Professor Erickson clearly explains that the term isthe basic model of understanding life that has dominated philosophicaland religious thinking in the West for 3,000 years—the idea that lifeis a process or journey between two different orders: from darkness tolight, from bondage to liberation, from experiencing the world's <span style="font-style: italic;">appearance </span> to understanding its <span style="font-style: italic;">reality </span>. <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">A Comfortable Approach to Theory </span><br /> Thisclarity soon becomes evident as the norm of the course; it is theresult of an award-winning teacher's relaxed and contemplative style,free of jargon and favoring the concrete over the abstract. ProfessorErickson is also skilled at weaving in quick summaries of whatpreceding philosophers had to say about the topic being covered, so itis always clear exactly where each new thinker fits in. The course isan ideal way to become comfortable with philosophical ideas. And it'san approach that brings to life the beliefs and arguments of thesegreat thinkers, as well as the philosophers themselves. <br /> Lectureby lecture, you'll encounter some of the inspirational minds that havehelped humankind probe what is perhaps its most fundamental question,including: <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Karl Marx </span>, whosehorror over working conditions in 19th-century England and contempt ofthe ways of the privileged would ultimately alter the politicallandscape of the world <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Friedrich Nietzsche </span>,whose own brand of Existentialism represented a dramatic detour fromKierkegaard's, and who left a lasting imprint on philosophical thought,even though he became hopelessly insane the last 11 years of his life <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sigmund Freud </span>,whose impact on the field of psychology cannot obscure the relevancehis work has for philosophers grappling with questions about meaningand the foundations of self-knowledge <br /> Theavenues opened by these thinkers, and by all the minds explored inthese lectures, do not, of course, explain the meaning of life. Or evenif such a meaning exists. But they do take us further along a journeythat will almost certainly never end. <br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Course Lecture Titles</span> The Axial ModelKant’s Hopeful ProgramThe Kantian LegacyKant and the Romantic ReactionHegel on the Human SpiritHegel on State and SocietyHegel on Selfhood and Human IdentitySchopenhauer’s PessimismSchopenhauer’s RemediesAlienation in MarxMarx’s Utopian HopeKierkegaard’s CrisesKierkegaard’s PassionWhy God Died—Nietzsche’s ClaimNietzsche’s DreamFreud’s NightmareFreud on Our OriginsPsychoanalytic Visions in and after FreudHeidegger on the Meaning of MeaningHeidegger on Technology’s ThreatHeidegger’s Politics and LegacyThe Human Situation—Sartre and CamusPower and Reason—Foucault and HabermasToday’s Provocative Landscape—Thresholding<br /> <br />
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