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History of Philosophy

Philosophy is the science that studies the fundamental nature of existence, of man and of man's relation to existence.

Leonard Peikoff

Audio. A little expensive relative to books, but easily the best essentialized lectures on the history of philosophy. In two volumes, these recorded lectures trace the essentials of philosophy's development from its rise in ancient Greece, through Christianity, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, its decline after Kant and its rebirth after Rand.

• Founders of Western Philosophy, Thales to Hume by Leonard Peikoff. (more:
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• Modern Philosophy: Kant to the Present by Leonard Peikoff. (more:
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• The History of Philosophy by Peikoff – Audio. A little expensive relative to books, but easily the best essentialized lectures on the history of philosophy. In two volumes, these recorded lectures trace the essentials of philosophy's development from its rise in ancient Greece, through Christianity, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, its decline after Kant and its rebirth after Rand.

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• Ayn Rand – The novelist and philosopher, creator of Objectivism.
• Leonard Peikoff – The world's foremost authority on Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand.