The final part of an excellent six part series which examines modern life and considers the impact of our relentlessly changing world upon key values that used to make western society something to aspire to. Each episode is packed with pearls of wisdom and a lot of food for thought. Concepts are well presented with rational arguments and good examples - helping to justify the often disappointing new realities it reveals. The documentary is Australian, but applies to all western countries.
Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World (48 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Taught by Robert Bucholz / Loyola University of Chicago / D.Phil., Oxford University
As Americans, we are rooted in different soils, in different lands. We draw on different philosophies and religions to sustain us. And we earn our livings in different ways. But no matter what our differences, there is one bond we share, says Professor Robert Bucholz. But how did the decentralized agrarian principalities of medieval Europe become great industrial nation-states? How and why did absolutism rise and then yield to democratic liberalism?
The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an authoritative, coherent and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large aspects of Western culture as a whole from a classical perspective.
Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Course No. 893 Taught by Teofilo F. Ruiz University of California at Los Angeles Ph.D., Princeton University
Western civilization is closely associated with reason and science and with exceptional accomplishment in art and architecture, music, and literature. Yet it has also been characterized by widespread belief in the supernatural and the irrational—with mystics who have visions of the divine, and with entire movements of people who wait in fervent anticipation of the apocalypse. REUPLOAD NEEDED
Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition is a comprehensive survey of the history of Western philosophy from its origins in classical Greece to the present. The course is an 84-lecture, 12-professor tour of Western philosophical tradition and covers more than 60 of history's greatest minds.
Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World (48 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition 
