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PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHY


AGE OF PERFORMANCE, THE

To do more and more, at a younger and younger age, to always go further and faster, even if it is toward the grave... This is the age of performance.

We live at a time when performance criteria - efficiency, output and productivity - govern the slightest action.

Just where is this insane race taking us? Has life itself become a high-competition sport? THE AGE OF PERFORMANCE asks these questions and others, providing much to think and talk about.

Item no.: GN00160028
Format: DVD
Duration: 53 minutes
Audience: Senior High - College
Copyright: 1998
Price: USD 195.00

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APOSTLE OF REASON, THE

In this drama Spinozas philosophy is explained by exploring the turbulent times in which he lived. Born in 16th century Amsterdam to a family of Portugese Jewish refugees, he became one of the greatest philosophers of all time.

Spinoza challenged religious and political orthodoxy. Despised by religious fanatics of every nature, he continued in his scepticism, enraging the Jewish elders who eventually excommunicated him.

Although he wrote over three hundred years ago, this great thinker remains the most modern of the old philosophers. His hatred of irrationality grows even more relevant in a world fractured by religious and nationalist venom.

Item no.: DH00160080
Format: DVD
Duration: 52 minutes
Audience: College, General
Copyright: 1995
Price: USD 250.00

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ART OF BEING HUMAN, THE

A Portrait of Frederick Franck

A remarkable artist who helps us see the humanity in others.

This is an inspirational portrait of the artist Frederick Franck, author of The Zen of Seeing. Born on the border of Holland and Belgium, where both World Wars began, Franck has seen firsthand the horrors of modern warfare. Living now in upstate New York, his life's work - through painting, sculpture, and books - has been to help people see the humanity in others, so that they will not be able to tolerate or be involved in violence towards others. It's a message with particular significance in the wake of Rwanda, Kosovo, and Littleton, CO.

Reviews
  • "Frederick Franck is one of a rare and precious breed-an authentic troubadour whose lyricism is pure in word and image. He quietly roams our materialistic world and shows us that even here, even now, there is hope for our soul." -Jacob Needleman, author of "Money and the Meaning of Life"

  • "Franck's spiritual nature and his view of art as a means to "transmit the preciousness of life" is an ennobling one which may be most appropriate for classroom use." -Video Librarian

  • "In an era marked with growing intolerance, this video may help remind viewers of the value of all human life."
    -School Library Journal

    Awards
  • CINE Golden Eagle
  • American Psychiatric Association Meeting

    Item no.: VP02560351
    Format: DVD-R (Color)
    Duration: 28 minutes
    Audience: Grades 7-12, College, Adult
    Copyright: 1995
    StdBkNo: 1594586691
    Price: USD 59.00

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    DEATH AND IMMORTALITY

    By Radha Burnier

    A presentation at the 114th Annual Meeting and Summer School of the Theosophical Society in America, examining the truly immortal nature of the human condition and how we might access it. It is suggested that our fear of physical death and the desire for increased longevity comes out of illusory notions of who we really are.

    Item no.: PJ09650020
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 23 minutes
    Copyright: 2000
    StdBkNo: 9780835680059
    Price: USD 17.95

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    EASTERN & WESTERN PHILOSOPHY: WESTERN PHILOSOPHY

    This informative collection explores the roots of Western philosophies and religions by using expert commentary from scholars, theologians and historians, on-location footage and authentic re-creations. Includes three episodes covering the teachings of Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, Nietzsche, Sartre and more. The first segment in the collection examines ancient Greek and Roman philosophy as well as the foundations of modern Christianity thought. The second segment explores the effect of scientific and mathematical discoveries on philosophy and religion in the Age of Enlightenment, covering the Rationalist movement, the British Empiricists and more. The final segment examines the Industrial Revolution's impact on western philosophy, covering theories of evolution, Existentialism, the Pragmatists, linguistics and more.

    Item no.: RA08992877
    Format: DVD (Color, Region 1)
    Duration: 150 minutes
    Audience: Grades 9 to Adults
    Copyright: 2002
    Price: USD 59.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: ARE INTERPRETATIONS TRUE?

    Asks how it is possible for us to interpret and understand each other. Is there a true or correct way of interpreting the meaning of what people say or write? Explores the views of Schleiermacher, Gadamer and Wittgenstein on language and meaning.

    Item no.: NT08860205
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: ARE WE SOCIAL BEINGS?

    Looks at the relationship between personality and sociocultural context, and contrasts atomistic and societal views of the self, represented by Descartes and Hegel and using the endangered culture of the Laplanders in Sweden. Contemporary philosophers include Charles Taylor.

    Item no.: BH08860206
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: CAN RULES DEFINE MORALITY?

    Addresses formalist theories of ethics, particularly that of Immanuel Kant, and explores the implications of his views in relation to ethical issues.

    Item no.: NG08860207
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: CAN WE KNOW GOD THROUGH EXPERIENCE?

    Considers whether certain mystical experiences are indications of the existence of a Divine Being. What kind of evidence is necessary for religious belief?

    Item no.: PK08860208
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: DO WE HAVE FREE WILL?

    Asks if our lives are determined, or if we freely choose among alternatives. Ancient philosophers believed us to be free moral beings, but how do we define our options in a world governed by the laws of physics?

    Item no.: KY08860209
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: DOES GOD EXIST?

    Delves into how philosophers have probed the universe for evidence of God's existence. How did the world begin? Is there a reason for its order and design? And, can we reconcile the existence of God with the existence of evil?

    Item no.: EL08860210
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: DOES KNOWLEDGE DEPEND ON EXPERIENCE?

    Focuses on the 17th and 18th Century empiricism of John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume, and the 20th Century empiricism and naturalism of W.V.O. Quine, who is interviewed.

    Item no.: TY08860211
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: DOES SCIENCE GIVE US TRUTH?

    Looks at correspondence, coherence, and pragmatist theories of truth, and discusses how conflicts have carried over into realist vs. antirealist views of science, including the Einstein-Bohr debate about quantum mechanics.

    Item no.: WU08860212
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: DOES THE END JUSTIFY THE MEANS?

    Looks at utilitarianism against the backdrop of a construction project with environmental import and asks what is intrinsically valuable.

    Item no.: ZH08860213
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: DOES THE MIND SHAPE THE WORLD?

    Examines Immanuel Kant's position that we interpret the world through a priori constructs of the mind, as well as later philosophers' views of how these constructs may vary among languages and cultures.

    Item no.: YH08860214
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: HOW DO WE ENCOUNTER THE WORLD?

    Examines the views of Husserl, Heidegger, and others in which reality is a phenomenon of consciousness.

    Item no.: EH08860215
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: HOW DOES SCIENCE ADD TO KNOWLEDGE?

    Highlights the classic, Baconian inductivist view that grew out of the Scientific Revolution and challenges to that view posed by Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn. Includes consideration of Kuhn's views about the role that paradigm theories play in scientific revolutions.

    Item no.: SA08860216
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: IS ETHICS BASED ON VIRTUE?

    Explores Aristotle's and other ancient views of virtue and the good life, as well as contemporary virtue ethics with its focus on emotions, personal relationships, character, and long-term values.

    Item no.: LJ08860217
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: IS MIND DISTINCT FROM BODY?

    Examines how Descartes' dualistic view has been subject to waves of attacks from materialism, including present exponents of artificial intelligence and neuroscience. The program features commentary by John Searle, Daniel Dennett, Paul Churchland, and other philosophers.

    Item no.: VW08860218
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: IS MORALITY RELATIVE?

    Discusses whether all morality is culturally determined, or whether some moral values are valid for all cultures. Harman, Wong, and Rachels explore the claims of relativism. The issue of child labor is explored from a relativist point of view.

    Item no.: HK08860219
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: IS REASON THE SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE?

    Is Reason the Source of Knowledge? presents the rationalism of Descartes and Leibnitz, the roots of rationalism in Plato and geometry, and the continuing debate over whether the mind alone can generate knowledge.

    Item no.: WW08860220
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: IS THERE AN ENDURING SELF?

    Weaves the reflections of an expectant mother with inquiries from philosophers, from Socrates to the present, asking whether a person has an enduring self.

    Item no.: NC08860221
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: IS TIME REAL?

    Questions whether time is something measured only by clocks and calendars or something that exists as an entity in its own right. The program explores theories of time presented by Aristotle, Augustine and Kant, and contrasts Newton's theories of time with Einstein's theory of relativity.

    Item no.: NR08860222
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: MORAL DILEMMAS...CAN ETHICS HELP?

    Considers the relevance of utilitarian, Kantian, and virtue ethics to the situation of a family with a severely impaired newborn.

    Item no.: PN08860223
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: WHAT IS ART?

    Looks at several views on the nature of art, and asks how these have been affected by changes in artistic styles and techniques. Danto, Duchamp, Lyotard and others are interviewed on the significance of contemporary conceptual art.

    Item no.: SD08860224
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: WHAT IS HUMAN NATURE?

    What is Human Nature?contrasts traditional Greek and Judeo-Christian views of human nature with post-Darwinian and existential views.

    Item no.: HZ08860225
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: WHAT IS JUSTICE?

    Explores questions about distributive justice, both from a national and global perspective, and examines the views of Aristotle, Marx, Rawls and Nozick.

    Item no.: BN08860226
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?

    What is Philosophy? combines two classic models -- Plato's Parable of the Cave and the character of Socrates -- with contemporary philosophers' commentary on the subject.

    Item no.: EE08860227
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: WHAT IS REAL?

    Explores the conflict between Thomas Hobbes' materialism and George Berkeley's idealism, and the 20th Century conflict between realists and antirealists. Philosophers include John Searle, Hilary Putnam, and Richard Rorty.

    Item no.: BA08860228
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE?

    Evaluates how the meaning and purpose of life have been viewed in light of religion, culture and history, as well as from an individual existential perspective. Program features the views of Hegel and Kirkegaard.

    Item no.: HR08860229
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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    EXAMINED LIFE, THE: WHAT JUSTIFIES THE STATE?

    Asks whether the state is merely an artificial arrangement we construct to make life better, as social contact theorists claim, or whether it's a natural organism through which people achieve their potential.

    Item no.: EN08860230
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Audience: Adult
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 49.95

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