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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0032031259096
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Kultur Video
Manufacturer: Kultur Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Kultur Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 25, 2006
Running Time: 300 minutes
Sales Rank: 11660
Studio: Kultur Video
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What motivations underpin human behavior? How do we define good? Does God exist? Why should we believe that the world really is as we experience it? How can a person live a life of virtue? Eastern Philosophy explores the genesis of spiritual thought and investigates the central doctrines of Confucianism, Shinto, Hinduism, Judaism, and Isalm.. Each program in this series contains new on-location footage, authentic re-creations and reconstructions, as well as commentary and analyses by experts in Philosophy.
A groundbreaking series that explores the root of ancient philosophy and religious thought, Western Philosophy traces the evolution of philosophy from classical Greece, its development in Europe through the medieval period and the enlightenment into modern existentialist thought. All of the programs in this series contain new on-location footage, authentic re-creations and reconstructions, as well as commentary and analyses by experts in philosophy. The series asks what is philosophy, why it is important, and examines its intricate relationship with religion, spirituality, and the sciences. Each program in this series contains new on-location footage, authentic re-creations and reconstructions, as well as commentary and analyses by experts in Philosoph
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Rating:  -
There is enough meat in these diminutive vignettes to aid the classroom instructor in introducing several major historical philosophers. For this reason I encourage all philosophy instructors to take a serious look at the series. Now for the down side, the sequences are slow and almost boring. Speakers use enough philosophical jargon to make the eyes of armchair thinkers glaze over.
Just to make it clear:
For the classroom: Yes
For the living room : No
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First of all, as far as I am aware, this is one of the few DVDs available on the subject. This surely makes it a number one asset for teachers of philosophy. Secondly, it is richly produced as well. Though having no dramatization - something that may help students - it presents attractive stuff. Thirdly, it is distributed very efficiently for a teacher to use. In fact, one can choose any philosopher available and show only that; or else a whole period of thought. Next, the product balances - for once ... Read More
Rating:  -
The discipline of human thought was labeled by the ancient Greeks as "the love of wisdom," or philosophy. This two-disc set provides an informative, articulate, and intelligent introduction to the basic premises of dozens of philosophers and a half-dozen "religions" in Asia and the Near East. If you, like myself, have spent years at University poring over tomes of vast works in general philosophy then this disc probably contains very little new information. But for undergraduate students who are interested ... Read More
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