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Publisher
Distributed by Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Examined Life takes philosophy into the hustle and bustle of the everyday. The "rock star" philosophers of our time take "walks" through places that hold special resonance for them and their ideas. These places include crowded city streets, deserted alleyways, Central Park, and a garbage dump.
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"[This series] is an epic, comprehensive survey of the East's most influential philosphers and thinkers. In 36 lectures, [the student will be introduced to] the men and women responsible for molding Asian philosophy and for giving birth to a wide variety of spiritual and ideological systems, including Hinduism, Daoism, Confucianism, Sufism, and Buddhism."--Www.thegreatcourses.com.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
With the help of animated medieval paintings, these wonderful tales bring the Middle Ages vividly to life in all its corruption, violence and greed, courage, enterprise and learning. Few people know about the dark side of chivalry or that women and serfs were not downtrodden creatures at all. Each episode explores the role and function of a different medieval archetype.
Publisher
CBS News
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The triumph of Alexander the Great: 324 B.C. When his Macedonian troops revolt, Alexander the Great must decide what course of action is necessary. He analyzes and determine if he should crush the rebellion or yield to the mutiny.
The death of Socrates: 399 B.C. Hours before he is to be executed for refusing to recognize God, Socrates explains to his friends why he must choose death over life. His friends desperately try to convince him otherwise...
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A look at the life and work of the Russian-born author, from her childhood and escape from Soviet Russia, to her struggle to obtain recognition as an author. The documentary includes interviews, film footage, and an original film-noir scene from her 1934 play "Ideal."
Series
Eclipse volume 14
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Italiano
Description
Examines life in fifteenth-century Florence through the eyes of banker Cosimo de' Medici and art theorist Leon Battista Alberti; chronicles the life of seventeenth-century philospher Descartes; French mathematician Pascal attempts to reconcile religion and science amidst persecution.
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Faced with an impending nuclear apocalypse, a group of twenty college students must determine which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race. The decision quickly becomes deadly as each in the group turns against each other in a desperate fight for survival.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Harry Potter, an orphaned child that has spent the first ten years of his life living under the stairs of his aunt and uncle's house, is invited to join the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He learns his destiny lies in the realm of magic and fantasy.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
This video offers two hours in Yang long form training including philosophical and historical introduction to t'ai chi, stretching and warm-up exercises, introduction to basic t'ai chi postures, step-by-step instruction in 108 postures, long form style, complete Yang long form demonstration.
Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
This course will explore how leading Western philosophers and theologians such as Kant, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Martin Buber, Bertrand Russell, Martin Heidegger, Rowan Williams, and Jacques Derrida have defined and debated, defended and attacked religion. Some are pious and some are atheists. Some are philosophers who explain why religion is essential for human life, and some are philosophers who just as rationally explain why religion...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Everyone has to think in order to function in the world, and this course will equip you with the tools to reason effectively in your pursuit of reliable beliefs and useful knowledge. Whether you are a budding philosopher searching for ultimate truths, a science student grappling with the nature of scientific proof, a new parent weighing conflicting child-rearing advice, or a concerned citizen making up your mind about today's issues, Tools of Thinking...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In the 24 lectures of Understanding the Dark Side of Human Nature, Professor Daniel Breyer takes you on a fascinating philosophical journey into some of the deepest--and darkest--questions that have haunted humanity for millennia. In exploring the dark side of human nature, you won't just explore what it means to be evil; you'll explore humanity's fragile underbelly by investigating such topics as our thirst for vengeance, our tendency toward anger,...
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The "Long Debate" on the nature of truth, the scale of real values, the life one should aspire to live, the character of justice, the sources of law, and the terms of civic and political life is encompassed by the name philosophy. Three persistent themes--understood as problems--are knowledge, conduct, and governance, on which there is a storehouse of insights, some so utterly persuasive as to have shaped thought itself. Beginning with Plato and Aristotle,...
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Surveys the history, traditions, and practice of Judaism from biblical times to today, with explanations of the major aspects of Jewish culture. Focuses on Judaism from within and how it is understood by its adherents, past and present. Covers topics such as the sacred books of Judaism, modes of worship, the calendar and holidays, and rites of passage such as bar and bat mitzva and marriage. Illustrates how Judaism reinvented itself by embracing the...
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