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Philosophical Approaches



Philosophy is the search for answers to fundamental questions about the meaning of life. It gives us a common platform of logic from which to discuss, interact, and think about our world every single day, allowing us to come up with reasoned answers to the foundational questions about why we exist—and how we know we exist—independent of traditional religious traditions. Philosophical approaches give us structured ways of thinking about the truths that underlie our knowledge and existence as humans.

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Plato and Aristotle (Introduction to Greek Philosophy)

Tom Richey provides students with an introduction to Greek philosophy, contrasting Plato's idealism with Aristotle's realism and comparing the basic premise of Plato's Republic with Aristotle's Politics.

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The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization

The definitive sequel to New York Times bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World is a magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid the foundations of Western culture—and how their rivalry shaped the essential features of our culture...

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5 Reasons Why Plato and Aristotle Still Matter Today

The ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle may seem like the quintessential Dead White Males, but in fact they’re very much alive.

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FindCenterThere are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

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Introduction to Epistemology

This lecture introduces epistemology, explains the questions such a field investigates, look what it means to obtain knowledge, and why the need for such a field arose in the first place.

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The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy

Continuously in print for over 100 years, the SD remains today the most comprehensive sourcebook of the esoteric tradition, outlining the fundamental tenets of the Secret Doctrine of the Archaic Ages.

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Philosophy – Epistemology: The Will to Believe

Thomas Donaldson (Stanford University) asks whether it is moral to believe something even when you have no evidence that it is true. He discusses a classic debate on that subject, between philosophers William James and William Clifford.

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FindCenterPhilosophy is an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

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Perfect Philosophy: The “Radical” Way of No-Ideas

In this book, Adi Da radicalizes the question of knowledge and its inherent limits, and offers a way of life that originates and operates beyond those limits. Adi Da pushes us far beyond the boundaries the consideration of modern philosophers.

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Metaethics: Crash Course Philosophy #32

We begin our unit on ethics with a look at metaethics. Hank explains three forms of moral realism—moral absolutism, and cultural relativism, including the difference between descriptive and normative cultural relativism—and moral subjectivism, which is a form of moral antirealism.

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