Course Description

Many study philosophies for curiosity, skills, and abilities. Dr. Norman L. Geisler educator, lector, author has produced over 20-hours of lectures exploring the works of Plato, Aristotle, Plontinus, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, and other great philosophers.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Why Study Philosophy
  • 2

    Plato

    • Plato - A Pivotal Figure of Philosophy
  • 3

    Aristotle

    • Aristotle - The Creator of Hermeneutics
  • 4

    Plotinus

    • Plotinus - The One, The Intellect, and The Soul

    • More Plotinus 1

    • More Plotinus 2
  • 5

    Augustine

    • Saint Augustine the Medieval Monolith - One of the greatest Christian thinkers
  • 6

    Thomas Aquinas

    • Thomas Aquinas - The Greatest Systematic Theologian of All Time

    • More Thomas Aquinas 1

    • More Thomas Aquinas 2
  • 7

    Baruch Spinoza

    • Baruch Spinoza - 18th-Century Enlightenment & Modern Biblical Criticism

    • Spinoza and Modern Thought 1

    • Spinoza and Modern Thought 2
  • 8

    David Hume

    • David Hume - Philosophical Empiricism, Skepticism, and naturalism - Part 1

    • David Hume - Philosophical Empiricism, Skepticism, and naturalism - Part 2

    • An Answer To Hume's Supernaturalism 1

    • An Answer To Humes Supernaturalism 2
  • 9

    Immanuel Kant

    • Immanuel Kant - Human mind creates the structure of human experience
  • 10

    Søren Kierkegaard

    • Søren Kierkegaard- The First Existentialist - PT 1

    • Søren Kierkegaard- The First Existentialist - PT 2
  • 11

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

    • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - The Idealism
  • 12

    Ludwig Feuerbach

    • Ludwig Feuerbach - There is nothing but nothing
  • 13

    Kant and Kierkegaard

    • An Answer To Kant and Kierkegaard - Part 1

    • An Answer To Kant and Kierkegaard - Part 2
  • 14

    Existentialism

    • Christian View of Existentialism
  • 15

    Heidegger

    • Heidegger - 1

    • Heidegger - 2
  • 16

    Karl Barth

    • Karl Barth - The Greatest Protestant Theologian of the 20th-century

    • More Karl Barth - 1

    • More Karl Barth - 2

    • More Karl Barth - 3
  • 17

    Martin Buber | Emil Brunner | Edmund Husserl

    • Martin Buber | Emil Brunner | Edmund Husserl
  • 18

    Ludwig Wittgenstein, A. J. Ayer, & Friedrich Schleiermacher

    • Friedrich Schleiermacher - "Father of Modern Liberal Theology" Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations

    • Sir A.J. Ayer – Logical Positivism

    • Ludwig Wittgenstein - The Tractatus and The Philosophical Investigations

    • Wittgenstein – Conventionalism – Part 1

    • Wittgenstein – Conventionalism – Part 2

    • Wittgenstein – Conventionalism – Part 3
  • 19

    Alfred North Whitehead & Nelson Pike

    • Alfred North Whitehead process philosophy (theology)

    • Whitehead & Nelson

    • Nelson Pike - The Problem of Evil - Part 1

    • Nelson Pike - The Problem of Evil - Part 2
  • 20

    Cornelius Van Til

    • Cornelius Van Til – Part 1

    • Cornelius Van Til – Part 2
  • 21

    William James

    • William James
  • 22

    Alvin Plantinga – Charles Hodge

    • Alvin Plantinga – Charles Hodge – Part 1

    • Alvin Plantinga – Charles Hodge – Part 2
  • 23

    Thomism | Philosophy

    • Life and Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas

    • Thomas Aquinas – First Principles of Thought – 1

    • Thomas Aquinas – First Principles of Thought – 2

    • Thomas Aquinas – First Principles of Thought – 3

    • The Role of Faith and Reason in Aquinas

    • Thomas Aquinas Faith and Reason 1

    • Thomas Aquinas Faith and Reason 2

    • Thomas Aquinas Faith and Reason 3

    • Analogy

    • Realism vs Skepticism

    • Presuppositionalism – Fideism – Skepticism

    • Theories of Truth and Correspondence

    • Defense of the Correspondence Theory of Truth

    • Correspondence Theory of Truth – 1

    • Correspondence Theory of Truth – 2

    • Thomistic Epistemology – 1

    • Thomistic Epistemology – 2

    • Thomistic Epistemology – 3

    • Thomistic Epistemology – 4

    • Logic & Reality – 1

    • Logic and Reality – 2

    • Thomas Aquinas on God's Relation to the World | An Answer to Process Theology
  • 24

    History of Philosophy Lectures — PH520

    • PH520 - Class 1 - Part 1

Additional Workshops

Co-Founder, NGIM

Dr. Norman Geisler

The late Dr. Norman Geisler is known as the premiere apologist of the 20th century. He developed a three-tiered model that integrates apologetics, philosophy, and theology, and over a more than 60-year career in ministry he mentored and discipled many of today's top Christian leaders.

Dr. Norman Geisler is the author of The 12 Points That Prove Christianity Is True and over a hundred other books that have impacted the foundations of modern Christianity. In practical terms, Dr. Geisler was the first to see the value of using a classic two-step apologetic approach, as opposed to a purely evidentiary approach, to witness to a postmodern generation.

As a prominent member of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy, his influence was crucial in building a foundation on which the church stood through the writing of the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy. He founded the International Society of Christian Apologetics and co-founded two seminaries: Southern Evangelical Seminary and Veritas Evangelical Seminary, now called Veritas International University. In 2015, Dr. Norman Geisler and his son David co-founded Norm Geisler International Ministries, and in 2018 they launched the ministry's discipleship arm, the Norm Geisler Institute.

Dr. Norman Geisler earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Wheaton College, a Master of Theology from Wheaton Graduate School, a Th.B. from William Tyndale College and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Loyola University.