Professor Fears presents his choices from some of the most essential writings in history, ranging in time from the 3rd millennium B.C. to the 20th century, and in locale from Mesopotamia and China to Europe and America. He focuses on intellectual history and ethics, taking underlying ideas of each great work and revealing how these ideas can be put to use in a moral and ethical life.

This course of 36 lectures examines the breadth of modern psychology from both clinical and experimental perspectives.

Twelve 30-minute lectures by Oxford University Professor Daniel N. Robinson on consciousness from the perspective of the philosopher, the psychologist, the scientist, and the doctor.

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...