Philosophy doesn’t have to be daunting. Thanks to the Continuing Education program at Oxford University, you can now ease into philosophical thinking by listening to five lectures collectively called Philosophy for Beginners. (The video above is admittedly grainy, so you could always explore the audio options available on iTunes or this Oxford website.) Taught by Marianne Talbot, Lecture 1 starts with a “Romp Through the History of Philosophy” and moves in a brief hour from Ancient Greece to the present. Subsequent lectures (usually running about 90 minutes) cover the following topics: logic, ethics, politics, metaphysics, epistemology, and language.
Lecture One: A Romp Through the History of Philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the present day
Lecture Two: The Philosophical Method: Logic and Argument
Lecture Three: Ethics and Politics
Lecture Four: Metaphysics and Epistemology
Lecture Five: Philosophy of Language and Mind
You can find more courses by Talbot in our collection of Free Online Philosophy Courses, a subset of our meta collection, 1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities.
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I followed the 5 video and lectures of this course of Philosophy for beginners, and I thanks Marianne Talbot for making easy to understand a subject that always I had thought it was quite difficult to learned. The principles of morality, ethics, and good will presented for Plato and Aristotle more than 2,300 years ago, should be followed for citizens of the XXI century, and we may have a better world.
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Philosophy is such a satisfying venture. How I just wish every homo sapiens is a philosopher. Most of the problems on earth caused by stupidity would only exist in history books. But what would it cost the world to turn every Tom, Dick, and Harriett into a philosopher? Is it cheaper for the world to have the entire majority of its inhabitants being ignorant of philosophy?
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I obtained M.A in English twenty three years ago and have had longed to do another M.A in Philosophy but had no money to enroll in any institution in Pakistan and finally my desire to study it died out. However I received gifts to join A theological Seminary in Pakistan to be a minister and obtained M.Div.
I have excited to know the availability of philosophy audio books on YouTube which I enjoy often. I also came across other related material which I study but I think I need to study in a disciplined environment which seems so the free course I found here today.
I shall be so delighted and grateful if some one has old
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