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Skeptics and believers religious debate in the western intellectual tradition. Parts 1-3
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Skeptics and believers [videorecording] : religious debate in the western intellectual tradition. Parts 1-3 / Tyler Roberts, Grinnell College.
ISBN
1598036114
9781598036114
1598036122
9781598036121
Published
Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Notes
Thirty-six lectures (30 min. each) on 6 discs, 2 discs per container.
"Course no. 4670".
Accompanying course guidebooks includes a glossary, biographical notes, and a bibliography.
Summary
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 is irrational and illusory. Is religious faith blind submission? Or can it be part of an intellectually vital and realistic view of the world? Or could it be both, that religion is complicated - at times bound up with the worst, at other times bound up with the best?
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Internet Archive collection.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Series
Great courses
Performers
Lecturer: Professor Tyler Roberts, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa.
System details note
DVD.
Contents
pt. 1. disc 1. Lectures 1-6. Religion and modernity ; From suspicion to the premodern cosmos ; From Catholicism to Protestantism ; Scientific revolution and Descartes ; Descartes and modern philosophy ; Enlightenment and religion
pt. 1. disc 2. Lectures 7-12. Natural religion and its critics ; Kant - religion and moral reason ; Kant, romanticism, and pietism ; Schleiermacher : religion and experience ; Hegel - religion, spirit, and history ; Theology and the challenge of history.
pt. 2. disc 1. Lecture 13-18. 19th-century Christian modernists ; 19th-century Christian antimodernists ; Judaism and modernity ; Kierkegaard's faith ; Kierkegaard's paradox ; 19th-century suspicion and Feuerbach
pt. 2. disc 2. Lecture 19-24. Marx : religion as false consciousness ; Nietzsche and the genealogy of morals ; Nietzsche : religion and the ascetic ideal ; Freud : religion as neurosis ; Barth and the end of liberal theology ; Theology and suspicion.
pt. 3. disc 1. Lecture 25-30. Protestant theology after Barth ; 20th-century Catholicism ; Modern Jewish philosophy ; Post-Holocaust theology ; Liberation theology ; Secular and postmodern theologies
pt. 3. disc 2. Lecture 31-36. Postmodernism and tradition ; Fundamentalism and Islamism ; New atheisms ; Religion and rationality ; Pluralisms : religious and secular ; Faith, suspicion, and modernity.
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Educational films.
Lectures.
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