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- Philosophy: discipline concerned with questions of how one should live, what exists, what is genuine knowledge and what are the correct principles of reasoning.
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- Religion: set of common beliefs and practices generally held by a group of people, often codified as prayer, ritual, and religious law.
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Literature, Philosophy and Religion - Resource Page

Prime Sites

  • ErraticImpact.com, Philosophy Research Base (US) - meta-index categorized by history, subject & author, integrates text & online resources: books, topics, philosophers, history, essays, gear, philosophy departments, philosophers by name, philosopher home pages, Journals, organizations, book search, featured webs

  • Michigan University (US), Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) - creation, delivery & maintenance of electronic texts & mechanism for furthering library community's capabilities in online text, freely available collections: text collections (alphabetic list of resources, making of America, sgml resources)

Other Resource Sites . . . . . .

History of Philosophy Without any Gaps

Kings College (UK), London

Beginning with the earliest ancient thinkers, ideas and lives of the major philosophers covering in detail Plato, Aristotle, Avicenna, Aquinas, Descartes, and Kant) as well as the lesser-known figures of the tradition [ongoing podcasts]

Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws (1966)

Chicago University (US), Leo Strauss Center

Seminar in Political Philosophy [17 sessions with audio files] Readings include The Spirit of the Laws

Hegel, The Philosophy of History, winter quarter 1965

University of Chicago (US), Leo Strauss Center

Seminar in Political Philosophy [16 sessions and audio files]

General Philosophy

Oxford University (UK)

Background of Early Modern Philosophy, Science from Aristotle to Galileo, Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Robert Boyle & Isaac Newton, John Locke, Nicolas Malebranche, George Berkeley, David Hume, Kant and Modern Science, Hume's Argument Concerning Induction, Responses, Scepticism about the External World & Possible Answers, Cartesian Dualism, Mind-Body Problem, Introdution to Knowledge & Traditional Analysis, Gettier and Other Complications, Scepticism Externalism and Ethics of Belief

Critical Reasoning for Beginners

Oxford University (UK)

about arguments, how to identify and evaluate them, how not to mistake bad arguments for good

Bertrand Russell: Authority and the Individual: 1948

BBC, The Reith Lectures (UK)

Individual and Social Ethics, Control and Initiative (Their Respective Spheres), The Conflict of Technique and Human Nature, Role of Individuality, Social Cohesion and Government, Social Cohesion and Human Nature

Leo Strauss Courses

University of Chicago (US), Leo Strauss Center

collection of audio files and transcripts (pending) of Leo Strauss’s courses: Kant, Plato, Cicero, origins of political science, Aristotle, Marx, natural right, Rousseau, Xenophon

Leo Strauss as Teacher - reflections by former students

Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

Notre Dame University (US)

major figures and persistent themes in ancient and medieval philosophy, selected texts from Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Marcus Aurelius, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas

Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art

Oxford University (UK)

writings on art and beauty in the Western philosophical tradition, covering Plato, Aristotle, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant, questions about understanding works of art and about the nature of art, interpretation of literature, the expression of emotion in music, and the definition of art

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