Philosophy as a Guide to Living - TTC Audio Lecture

Philosophy as a Guide to Living

24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture



Taught by Stephen A. Erickson

Ph.D., Yale University


Is there a meaning to human life?
Is there a meaning to human life?
Is there a meaning to human life?

All of us have asked ourselves this question. But for philosophers through the ages, it was only the first of many, for they needed to know whether such a question was even answerable by philosophy. And if it was, they needed to ask whether any positive answer could be pursued through the practice of philosophy itself.

Today, these questions remain as timely and controversial as ever. But following the pathway of proposed answers on anything other than a level surface—no matter how fascinating we find the subject—can often be difficult for those untrained in philosophy and the profound rigor of its arguments and language.

Course Lecture Titles


1. The Axial Model
2. Kant’s Hopeful Program
3. The Kantian Legacy
4. Kant and the Romantic Reaction
5. Hegel on the Human Spirit
6. Hegel on State and Society
7. Hegel on Selfhood and Human Identity
8. Schopenhauer’s Pessimism
9. Schopenhauer’s Remedies
10. Alienation in Marx
11. Marx’s Utopian Hope
12. Kierkegaard’s Crises
13. Kierkegaard’s Passion
14. Why God Died—Nietzsche’s Claim
15. Nietzsche’s Dream
16. Freud’s Nightmare
17. Freud on Our Origins
18. Psychoanalytic Visions in and after Freud
19. Heidegger on the Meaning of Meaning
20. Heidegger on Technology’s Threat
21. Heidegger’s Politics and Legacy
22. The Human Situation—Sartre and Camus
23. Power and Reason—Foucault and Habermas
24. Today’s Provocative Landscape— Thresholding



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