Media Storage Type : DVD-ROM
NPTEL Course Name : Aspects of Western Philosophy
NPTEL Subject Matter Expert : Dr. Sreekumar Nellickappilly
NPTEL Co-ordinating Institute : IIT Madras
NPTEL Lecture Count : 40
Lecture Titles:
Lecture 1 - Greek Philosophy: An Introduction
Lecture 2 - Sophists and Socrates: The Philosophy of Man, Relativism and the Idea of Good
Lecture 3 - Platoï¾’s Idealism
Lecture 4 - Platoï¾’s Theory of Knowledge
Lecture 5 - Aristotleï¾’s Criticism of Platonic Idealism and the Concepts of Form and Matter
Lecture 6 - Aristotleï¾’s Theory of Causation and the Ideas of Potentiality and Actuality
Lecture 7 - Medieval Philosophy
Lecture 8 - Modern Philosophy
Lecture 9 - Descartes: Method of Philosophy and Theory of Knowledge
Lecture 10 - Rene Descartes: The Mind-body Dualism
Lecture 11 - Spiniza
Lecture 12 - Spinozaï¾’s Pantheism: God and Nature Relationship
Lecture 13 - The Philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Lecture 14 - Fundamentals of John Lockeï¾’s Empiricism
Lecture 15 - John Locke: Theory of knowledge
Lecture 16 - George Berkeleyï¾’s Immaterialism and Subjective Idealism
Lecture 17 - Refutation of Abstract Ideas and Esse est Percipi
Lecture 18 - David Hume: Theory of Knowledge
Lecture 19 - David Hume: From Empiricism to Skepticism
Lecture 20 - The Critical Philosophy Of Immanuel Kant
Lecture 21 - Kant: Transcendental Aesthetic and Transcendental Analytic
Lecture 22 - Immanuel Kant: The Ideas of Reason and the Rejection of Speculative Metaphysics
Lecture 23 - Immanuel Kantï¾’s Ethical Theory
Lecture 24 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: The Concepts of Being, Non-being and Becoming
Lecture 25 - Hegelï¾’s Absolute Idealism and the Phenomenology of Spirit
Lecture 26 - Karl Marx: Historical Materialism
Lecture 27 - Nietzsche: Critique of Western Culture
Lecture 28 - Linguistic Turn in British philosophy and Russellï¾’s Logical Atomism
Lecture 29 - Wittgensteinï¾’s Early Philosophy
Lecture 30 - Wittgenstein: Language-Games and Forms of Life
Lecture 31 - Logical Positivism and the Scientific Conception of Philosophy
Lecture 32 - Edmund Husserlï¾’s Phenomenology: The Principle of Intentionality and the Methods of Reduction
Lecture 33 - Phenomenological Reduction and Transcendental Subjectivity
Lecture 34 - Martin Heidegger: The Question of Being
Lecture 35 - Martin Heidegger: The Ontology of Dasein and the Concept of Truth
Lecture 36 - Existentialism
Lecture 37 - Sartreï¾’s Conception of Human Existence
Lecture 38 - Jean Paul Sartreï¾’s Concept of Human Existence
Lecture 39 - Postmodernism
Lecture 40 - Deconstruction, Feminism and Discourse Theory