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Edward Craig – Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction [3CDs – MP3]from the excellent Oxford Unniversity Press ‘Very Short Introductions’ series32kbpsTotal time: 3:33:50Table of Contents:01 A Very Short Introduction 00:0002 What Should I Do? Plato’s “Crito” 00:0003 How Do We Know? Hume’s “Of Miracles” 00:0004 What Am I? An Unknown Buddhist on “The Self” 00:00a) King Milenda’s Chariot 05 Some Themes 00:00a) Ethical Consequentialism 00:41b) Integrity 07:30c) Political Authority: The Contract Theory 10:27d) Evidence & Rationality 15:47e) The Self 20:53f) Philosophy & Historical Context 25:4806 Of ‘isms’ 00:00a) Dualism 01:29b) Materialism 04:27c) Idealism 07:44d) Empiricism & Rationalism 11:44e) Scepticism 18:19f) Relativism 21:5107 Some More High Spots 00:00a) Descartes: Discourse on the Method 00:38b) Hegel: Intro to the Philosophy of History 14:16c) Nietzsche: The Genealogy of Morals 27:1408 What’s In It For Whom? 00:00a) The Individual 03:01b) The State 07:23c) The Priesthood 10:31d) The Working Classes 14:43e) Women 18:33f) Animals 25:38g) Professional Philosophers 30:35One of the ‘dating gurus’ we all know I believe once said he and all the other ‘experts’ in the community are just ‘amateur philosophers’.