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Ages: 15 - 18
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Written and delivered by Mark Steel, each lecture presents persuasive, yet witty, arguments for the importance of Descartes. Mark Steel looks at Descartes life and philosophy. He starts with some background about Descartes. He also discusses Aris...totle and his thoughts and how Parliament instructed people not to attack his thoughts. Descartes said his best ideas would come if he was clear of all distractions, he said his clearest thoughts would come if he was in an oven. Video does not show historical pictures, it uses current background and people to help with the lecturers ideas. Presenter has a heavy English accent, which is sometimes hard to understand. Video is good quality and is appropriate for high school students.
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August 22, 2009 at 08:09 PM
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Not Right For WatchKnowLearn
Ages: 15 - 18
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Written and delivered by Mark Steel, lecture presents persuasive, yet witty, arguments for the importance of Descartes. This episode discusses Descartes daughter who dies when she is five and he becomes devastated. He starts to write “the Meditatio...ns,” which is a theory of the universe. Video does not show historical pictures, it uses current background and people to help with the lecturers ideas. Presenter has a heavy English accent, which is sometimes hard to understand. Video is good quality and is appropriate for high school students.
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August 22, 2009 at 08:09 PM
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Not Right For WatchKnowLearn
Ages: 15 - 18
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Written and delivered by Mark Steel, each scripted lecture presents persuasive, yet witty, arguments for the importance of Descartes. This episode continues with the discussion of God in Descartes thoughts. Mr. Steel then discusses Descartes new top...ic, which was anatomy. He discovered that the senses work through the nervous system. He then continued that our minds are separate from our brains. We are made of two parts, our body and a soul which contains our thoughts. He called this theory “Dualism.” At the age of 53, Descartes dies. Eventually Descartes was accepted. Video does not show historical pictures, it uses current background and people to help with the lecturers ideas. Presenter has a heavy English accent, which is sometimes hard to understand. Video is good quality and is appropriate for high school students.
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August 22, 2009 at 08:10 PM
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Not Right For WatchKnowLearn
Ages: 14 - 18
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Superstar Teacher Series, Produced by the Teaching Company, Lecturer is John Searle. Lecture is titled, “The Philosophy of Mind.” This set of lectures is about the Philosophy of Mind. This episode discusses the Cogito, "I think, therefore I am", b...ut can be less ambiguously translated as "I am thinking, therefore I exist" or "I am thinking, on the account of being". The proof that each person is a thinking being, because doubting is part of thinking proves this. Descartes wondered where the soul connects with the body he thought it was with the pineal gland. He picked the pineal gland because he could only find one pineal gland everything else in the head had a pair. Video picture does not change it is a picture of a hand with other pictures over it. The speaker is good and voice is clear. Video is appropriate for high school students.
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August 22, 2009 at 08:05 PM
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Not Right For WatchKnowLearn
Ages: 15 - 18
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Superstar Teacher Series, Produced by the Teaching Company, Lecturer is John Searle. Lecture is titled, “The Philosophy of Mind.” This set of lectures is about the Philosophy of Mind. This episode discusses, “How do I know there is a physical obje...ct out there?” Idealism is then discussed it says all we are ever aware of is the contents of our own mind. Idealism in the 20th century is Phenomenalism. He says minds are always conscience and we are essentially a mind, so if we stop being conscience we would cease to exist. Video picture does not change it is a picture of a hand with other pictures over it. The speaker is good and voice is clear. Video is appropriate for high school students.
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August 22, 2009 at 08:06 PM
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