Introduction to Philosophy Course Videos

These are roughly 1-hour-long videos from the course I taught at Marist College in Fall 2011, Spring 2013, and Fall 2013, supplemented by videos from a few other courses -- just to give the Intro sequence some more depth.  Because the Fall 2013 class had the theme Love, Friendship, and Desire, you'll see a strong emphasis on that set of topics.

Note: many of these videos are substantively different than videos discussing corresponding texts in the Ethics sequence

Preliminaries

• Big Questions and Areas of Philosophy
• Big Questions about Love, Friendship, and Desire
• How to Read a Philosophical Text: Matters to Keep in Mind

Close Readings Workshops

• Close Reading Pre-Writing Workshop
• Workshop on Writing Close Reading Papers

Plato 

• Apology 
• Crito 
• Euthyphro
• Lysis
• Meno (part 1) 
• Meno (part 2) 
• Phaedo (part 1) 
• Phaedo (part 2)
• Symposium (part 1) 
• Symposium (part 2) 
• Symposium (part 3) 
• Republic, book 1
• Republic, book 4
• Republic, book 7

Aristotle

• Metaphysics, book 1
• Metaphysics, book 1 [continued] 
• Metaphysics (selections) 
• Topics, book 1
• Nicomachean Ethics, book 1
• Nicomachean Ethics, book 2
• Nicomachean Ethics, book 3 
• Nicomachean Ethics book 6 
• Nicomachean Ethics, books 8-9 
• Nicomachean Ethics, book 10

Epictetus

• Enchiridion

Epicurus

• selected texts on Pleasure and Friendship

Marcus Tullius Cicero

• On Friendship (part 1) 
• On Friendship (part 2)
• On the Nature of the Gods, book 1 
• On the Nature of the Gods, book 2 
• On the Nature of the Gods, book 3

Augustine of Hippo

• Confessions, books 1-6
• Confessions, books 7-9
• Confessions, books 10-12
• On Free Choice of the Will, book 1 
• On Free Choice of the Will, book 2 
• On Free Choice of the Will, book 3

Anselm of Canterbury

• Proslogion, ch.2-4
• Proslogion, the rest 
• On Truth

Heloise and Abelard

• Letters 1-6 

Thomas Aquinas

• Summa Theologiae. Ia, q. 2
• S.T. Ia, q. 16-17 
• S.T., Ia, q. 20 and 60
• S.T. Ia, q. 82-83
• Summa Theologiae, IaIIa, q. 2 
• Summa Theologiae, IaIIae, q. 90-91 and 94 
• S.T. IIaIIae q. 23 and 25  
• S.T., IaIIae, q. 26-27 

Thomas Hobbes

• Leviathan, ch. 6 & 10-11
• Leviathan, ch. 13-15

Rene Descartes

• Discourse on Method, parts 1-3
• Discourse on Method, parts 4-6
• Meditations 1-2 
• Meditation 3 (and 5)
• Meditations 4-6
• Correspondence with Princess Elisabeth
• Passions of the Soul, part 1 
• Passions of the Soul, part 2 
• Passions of the Soul, part 3 

David Hume

• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (the arguments)

Jeremy Bentham

• Introduction, ch. 1-5 
• Introduction, ch. 8, 10-11

Immanuel Kant

• Groundwork, sec. 1 
• Groundwork, sec. 2-3

John Stuart Mill

• Utilitarianism, ch. 1-2 
• Utilitarianism, ch. 3-5

G.W.F. Hegel

• Phenomenology of Spirit, Introduction
• Phenomenology of Spirit, Self-Consciousness and Master-Slave Dialectic

Soren Kierkegaard

• Fear and Trembling (part 1)
• Fear and Trembling (part 2)

Friedrich Nietzsche 

• The Birth of Tragedy (part 1)
• The Birth of Tragedy (part 2)
• The Birth of Tragedy (part 3)
• The Birth of Tragedy (part 4)

Martin Heidegger

• What is Metaphysics?

Jean-Paul Sartre 

• "Existentialism is a Humanism"
• No Exit 

Gabriel Marcel

• On the Ontological Mystery (part 1)
• On the Ontological Mystery (part 2)