Thomas Aquinas was the greatest philosopher of the Christian middle ages. So what can he teach us that we have forgotten?
o Thomas Aquinas, part 1: rediscovering a father of modernity
o Thomas Aquinas, part 2: the mind as soul
o Thomas Aquinas, part 3: scripture, reason and the being of God
o Thomas Aquinas, part 4: how did the world begin?
o Thomas Aquinas, part 5: what does it mean to be human?
o Thomas Aquinas, part 6: natural law
o Thomas Aquinas, part 7: the question of evil
o Thomas Aquinas, part 8: Thomas for today
The Bible has a discomfiting tendency to cut across our natural political categories in a profoundly complex manner
o The political Bible, part 1: A foundation for British attitudes
o The political Bible, part 2: justice. When is a king not a king?
o The political Bible, part 3: how Britain came to accept democracy
o The political Bible, part 4: toleration
o The political Bible, part 5: equality
o The political Bible, part 6: welfare
o The political Bible, part 7: nationhood
o The political Bible, part 8: freedom and order
Achieving the right balance between what Jung called the ego and self is key to his theory of personality development
o Carl Jung, part 1: Taking inner life seriously
o Carl Jung, part 2: A troubled relationship with Freud – and the Nazis
o Carl Jung, part 3: Encountering the unconscious
o Carl Jung, part 4: Do archetypes exist?
o Carl Jung, part 5: Psychological types
o Carl Jung, part 6: Synchronicity
o Carl Jung, part 7: The power of acceptance
o Carl Jung, part 8: Religion and the search for meaning
Marx thought that to understand religion correctly would allow one to understand the hole of human history
o Karl Marx, part 1: Religion, the wrong answer to the right question
o Karl Marx, part 2: How Marxism came to dominate socialist thinking
o Karl Marx, part 3: Men make their own history
o Karl Marx, part 4: ‘Workers of the world, unite!’
o Karl Marx, part 5: The problem of power
o Karl Marx, part 6: The economics of power
o Karl Marx, part 7: The psychology of alienation
o Karl Marx, part 8: Modernity and the privatisation of hope
For this 17th century outsider, philosophy is like a spiritual practice, whose goal is happiness and liberation
o Spinoza, part 1: Philosophy as a way of life
o Spinoza, part 2: Miracles and God’s will
o Spinoza, part 3: What God is not
o Spinoza, part 4: All there is, is God
o Spinoza, part 5: On human nature
o Spinoza, part 6: Understanding the emotions
o Spinoza, part 7: On the ethics of the self
o Spinoza, part 8: Reading the Ethics
Genesis looks at what the culture around it believes about the nature of the material world, and disagrees with it profoundly
o The Book of Genesis, part 1: God created
o The Book of Genesis, part 2: In the beginning
o The Book of Genesis, part 3: Creation – and afterwards
o The Book of Genesis, part 4: The problem and the answer
o The Book of Genesis, part 5: Genesis and the imagination
o The Book of Genesis, part 6: Patriarchs and others
o The Book of Genesis, part 7: The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
o The Book of Genesis, part 8: Why this story?
The Book of Job is the first document in history to take seriously the question of why really bad things happen to really good people
o The Book of Job, part 1: Who was Job? Why does he matter?
o The Book of Job, part 2: Theodicy on the street
o The Book of Job, part 3: Balaam, Yithro, and Job
o The Book of Job, part 4: Theodicy on ‘Planet Auschwitz’
o The Book of Job, part 5: Job’s wife – did she bless or curse?
o The Book of Job, part 6: Satan
o The Book of Job, part 7: A life for a life?
For Kierkegaard, the most pressing question for each person is the meaning of his or her own existence
o Kierkegaard’s world, part 1: What does it mean to exist?
o Kierkegaard’s world, part 2: Truth of knowledge and truth of life
o Kierkegaard’s world, part 3: The story of Abraham and Isaac
o Kierkegaard’s world, part 4: ‘The essentially human is passion’
o Kierkegaard’s world, part 5: The task of becoming a Christian
o Kierkegaard’s world, part 6: On learning to suffer
o Kierkegaard’s world, part 7: Spiritlessness
o Kierkegaard’s world part 8: God and possibility
Wittgenstein is a philosopher whom people find it easy to get obsessed with. What’s the secret of his attraction?
o Investigating Wittgenstein, part 1: Falling in love
o Investigating Wittgenstein, part 2: Meaning is use
o Investigating Wittgenstein, part 3: Religion as a language game
o Investigating Wittgenstein, part 4: Private language
o Investigating Wittgenstein, part 5: Other selves
o Investigating Wittgenstein, part 6: What see’st thou else?
o Investigating Wittgenstein, part 7: Abandoning the lost battle
Plato increasingly looks not just like a generator of footnotes, but a philosopher whose time is coming again
o Plato’s Dialogues, part 1: Why Plato?
o Plato’s Dialogues, part 2: Who was Plato’s Socrates?
o Plato’s dialogues, part 3: Philosophy as a way of life
o Plato’s Dialogues, part 4: What do you love?
o Plato’s Dialogues, part 5: Love and the perception of forms
o Plato’s Dialogues, part 6: The philosophical school
o Plato’s Dialogues, part 7: Plato and Christianity
o Plato’s Dialogues, part 8: A man for all seasons
Heidegger, the most important continental philosopher of the last century was also a Nazi. How did he get there? What can we learn from him?
o Being and Time, part 1: Why Heidegger matters
o Being and Time, part 2: On ‘mineness’
o Being and Time, part 3: Being-in-the-world
o Being and Time, part 4: Thrown into this world
o Being and Time, part 5: Anxiety
o Being and Time part 6: Death
o Being and Time, part 7: Conscience
o Being and Time, part 8: Temporality
Nietzsche thought religion in general, and Christianity in particular, was a corruption of the human spirit
o On the Genealogy of Morals part 1: Meet Dr Nietzsche
o On the Genealogy of Morals part 2: The slave morality
o On the Genealogy of Morals, part 3: The birth of the übermensch
o On the Genealogy of Morals, part 4: Is Christianity cowardly?
o On the Genealogy of Morals, part 5: Breaking the cycle of conflict
o On the Genealogy of Morals, part 6: Superman goes mad in solitude
o On the Genealogy of Morals, part 7: Nietzsche contra dogma
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