By explaining the fundamental approaches to this familiar debate, Professor Nichols thoroughly prepares you for an in-depth study of the complexities of free will and determinism. You discover what great thinkers through the ages believe about the choices we make and understand how we might deal with their implications.

Professor Robert Solomon and Professor Kathleen Higgins takes us on an emotional journey of discovery into the heart and mind of this systematically unsystematic philosopher. The course is divided into two parts and twenty-four lectures. Each lecture focuses on the specific ideas that preoccupied Nietzsche, while tracing the profound themes that give shape and meaning to his oeuvre. In the process we discover that many of these themes-the quest for...

Presents historical, religious and philosophical explanations for the existence of evil.

1 Death's Place in Our Lives; 2 Defining Death; 3 Death, Illusion, and Meaning; 4 Is It Rational to Fear Death?; 5 Understanding and Coping with Grief; 6 Death Rituals and the Corpse; 7 American Death Rituals; 8 Approaches to Dying Well; 9 Judaism on Death and the Afterlife; 10 Death and Hope in Christianity; 11 Islam on Returning to God; 12 Death, Rebirth, and Liberation...