Religion

TTC Video - Exploring the Roots of Religion eBooks & eLearning

Posted by ParRus at Dec. 6, 2018

Stonehenge. Machu Picchu. The Acropolis. The Great Pyramids at Giza. Sites such as these have captivated the world for centuries—even millennia—since their creation. They are works of great beauty whose construction required spectacular feats of engineering, involved the efforts of hundreds of thousands of individuals, and incurred a tremendous financial cost on the civilizations that created them.

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Philosophy, Religion, and the Meaning of Life eBooks & eLearning

Posted by ParRus at Jan. 6, 2019

Philosophy, Religion, and the Meaning of Life

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MP3 | 128 Kbps | 48.0 KHz | 2 channels | 18:46:32 | 6.7 GB

Genre: eLearning Video / Philosophy, Religion

What is the meaning of life? Is human existence meaningful or absurd? Is it even worth asking this kind of question? Anyone who has ever pondered these fundamental questions has an extraordinary adventure in store. In 36 inspiring lectures, award-winning Professor of Philosophy Francis J. Ambrosio fields the biggest of the "big" questions, in a boldly revealing inquiry into one of the most fundamental of all human concerns.

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TTC Video - Philosophy of Religion eBooks & eLearning

Posted by ParRus at Oct. 17, 2019

Can humans know whether the claim "God exists" is true or not? If so, how? If not, why not? Questions such as these have perplexed humans since the first moment we were capable of asking them. Now in Philosophy of Religion you can explore the questions of divine existence with the tools of epistemology, the branch of philosophy that concerns itself with what we can know.

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The Spiritual Brain: Science and Religious Experience [repost] eBooks & eLearning

Posted by ParRus at Sept. 28, 2016

The Spiritual Brain: Science and Religious Experience

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AAC | 41.3 kbps | 48.0 KHz | 2 channels | 12:15:52 | 4.72 GB

Genre: eLearning Video / Neuroscience, Religion, Spirituality

Does God exist? Do we have a soul? Is it possible to make contact with a spiritual realm? How should we respond to the divine? Will life continue beyond death?

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TTC Video - Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights eBooks & eLearning

Posted by ParRus at Dec. 16, 2018

The civil liberties and constitutional rights our nation's citizens possess—not only in theory, but in the courtroom, where the state can be forced to honor those liberties—are a uniquely American invention. And when we were taught history and learned about the Constitution and Bill of Rights, we were always made aware of that uniqueness, of the extraordinary experiment that gave every citizen of this new nation a gift possessed by no others. But what, exactly, was that gift?

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Coursera - A Brief History of Humankind [repost] eBooks & eLearning

Posted by ParRus at June 3, 2016

The course surveys the entire length of human history, from the evolution of various human species in the Stone Age up to the political and technological revolutions of the twenty-first century.

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Buddhism [Repost] eBooks & eLearning

Posted by ParRus at April 30, 2015

Buddhism

Genre: eLearning / Education lectures: Religion, Philosophy

A religion without God? How could that be? And how could it have captured and captivated so many millions of people in so many countries for so many centuries? No doubt you can picture the Buddha—seated serenely, feet crossed in front of him, hands folded in his lap. But who was the real person behind this image? What did he say about the nature and purpose of life? What were the origins of the concepts of reincarnation, nirvana, karma, and Zen, and what is the Buddhist understanding of them? Buddhism is your opportunity to trace the history, principles, and evolution of a theology that is both familiar and foreign.

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The Historical Jesus [repost] eBooks & eLearning

Posted by ParRus at April 25, 2018

Who was Jesus of Nazareth? What was he like? For more than 2,000 years, people and groups of varying convictions have pondered these questions and done their best to answer them. The significance of the subject is apparent. From the late Roman Empire all the way to our own time, no continuously existing institution or belief system has wielded as much influence as Christianity, no figure as much as Jesus.

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TTC Video - The Greek World: A Study of History and Culture eBooks & eLearning

Posted by ParRus at June 20, 2020

TTC Video - The Greek World: A Study of History and Culture

WEBRip | English | MP4 | 1280 x 720 | AVC ~1904 Kbps | 29.970 fps
AAC | 96 Kbps | 44.1 KHz | 2 channels | 12:50:48 | 10.83 GB

Genre: eLearning Video / History, Culture

The ancient Greeks, more than any other early people or culture, have given us the template for Western civilization. An amazing number of the cultural, civic, and intellectual institutions that we take for granted in today’s world were first fleshed out by the Greeks, including phenomenal achievements in the fields of political theory, law, philosophy, science, and art. ancient Greece was the birthplace of drama, as well as democracy.

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TTC Video - Great Minds of The Eastern Intellectual Tradition eBooks & eLearning

Posted by ParRus at Dec. 17, 2018

Western philosophy is a vast intellectual tradition, the product of thousands of years of revolutionary thought built up by a rich collection of brilliant minds. When most of us study philosophy, we're focusing only on the Western intellectual tradition brought about by people such as Aristotle, Descartes, and Nietzsche. But to understand the Western intellectual tradition is to only get half of the story.

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