In this lecture professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr discusses the similarities and differences of early western Christendom and the Islamic World known as Dar al-Islam. Comparing Western Christendom & the Abode of Islam It's an excellent introductory lecture for placing global warming in global history.Ħ. He uses a calendar year as a reference for Earth's history and places global warming at the last few seconds before midnight on December 31st. He then puts humanity and global warming in the context of Earth's entire history going back 4.5 billion years ago. He covers some of the basics of global warming such as the greenhouse effect, the gases that contribute to global warming, and what creates the climate on Earth. McElroy introduces the worldwide experiment we have embarked on through the increase in global temperature. He then covers what Greek tragedy and comedy were actually like at the time they were performed in Athens 2,500 years ago. He briefly discusses the plays of the four major Greek playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes.
In this lecture professor Peter Meineck introduces Ancient Greek drama and explains why he feels it is still so popular and powerful today. And in the 20th century he briefly covers how businesses shifted their focus to the consumers who would buy all of the products that industrial capitalism was producing. He then examines the 19th century which brought in industrialization and finance as important factors along with the central issue of slavery and its relation to business. He covers the importance of business in colonial times and its influence on the American Revolution. In this first lecture called "The Business of America" Professor Brands gives a brief overview of the course and then proceeds to cover 200 years of American business history in 20 minutes from 1776 to the 20th century. It's a good introduction to this masterful writer and storyteller. He discusses each category of Lewis' works and examines how Lewis has gained a following particularly in the areas of apologetics and fiction. Shutt breaks Lewis' works into three categories: his Christian apologetic works, his fictional works including The Chronicles of Narnia, and his scholarly works. He mentions various viewpoints that people have had about Lewis and says why he thinks Lewis is more popular now than he was in his time. In this lecture professor Timothy Shutt provides an overview of the life and literature of C.S. This lecture is a foundational exercise for the rest of the program, with McGinn arguing that for someone to begin thinking philosophically, he or she must first understand the methods of thinking that go into the pursuit of true knowledge.
He traces the history of philosophical skepticism, giving the listener several historical arguments for the theory of knowledge, and also touching on arguments made by the likes of Plato, Descartes, and other important philosophers. In this lecture, Professor Colin McGinn deciphers what we mean when we say we 'know' something to be true.
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