LEE BRAVER walks through the great ethical theories of Western philosophy, from Socrates' founding questions to Mill, Kant, Aristotle, and Sartre's existential challenge.
LEE BRAVER leads a tour through Descartes, Hume, Kant, and Nietzsche, showing how each attempt to secure certainty gave way to deeper skepticism about truth itself.
MARYA SCHECHTMAN asks what makes you the same person throughout your life, introducing the major theories of personal identity and arguing that our identities are best understood as narratives.
RICHARD POLT guides listeners through Plato's Theaetetus in this introductory seminar, asking whether knowledge is perception and why radical relativism fails.
NOA LAHAV AYALON traces Spinoza's philosophy from its metaphysical foundations to his vision of love and human flourishing.
