Philosophy and religion in the West

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Presents an introduction to the history of Western civilization's religious and philosophical traditions. Abstract: Presents an introduction to the history of Western civilization's religious and philosophical traditions Content: lecture 1. Introduction : Philosophy and religion as traditions -- lecture 2. Plato's inquiries : the gods and the good -- lecture 3. Plato's spirituality : the immortal soul and the other world -- lecture 4. Aristotle and Plato : cosmos, contemplation and happiness -- lecture 5. Plotinus : Neoplatonism and the ultimate unity of all-- lecture 6. The Jewish scriptures -- lecture 7. Platonist philsoophy and scriptural religion -- lecture 8. The New Testament : life in Christ -- lecture 9. Rabbinic Judaism : Israel and the Torah -- lecture 10. Church Fathers : the Logos made flesh -- lecture 11. The development of Christian Platonism -- lecture 12. Jewish rationalism and mysticism : Maimonides and Kabbalah. lecture 13. Classical theism : proofs and attributes of God -- lecture 14. Medieval Christian theology : nature and grace -- lecture 15. Late medieval nominalism and Christian mysticism -- lecture 16. Protestantism : problems of grace -- lecture 17. Decartes, Locke, and the crisis of modernity -- lecture 18. Leibniz and theodicy -- lecture 19. Hume's critique of religion -- lecture 20. Kant : reason limited to experience -- lecture 21. Kant : morality as the basis of religion -- lecture 22. Schleiermacher : feeling as the basis of religion. lecture 23. Hegel : a philosophical history of religion -- lecture 24. Marx and the Hermeneutics of suspicion -- lecture 25. Kierkegaard : Existentialism and the leap of faith -- lecture 26. Nietzsche : critic of Christian morality -- lecture 27. Neo-orthodoxy : the subject and object of faith -- lecture 28. Encountering the biblical other : Buber and Levinas -- lecture 29. Process philosophy : God in time -- lecture 30. Logical empiricism and the meaning of religion -- lecture 31. "Reformed" epistemology and the rationality of belief -- lecture 32. Conclusion : philosophy and religion today.