[MD] The Teaching Company

[david buchanan]

I bought a big batch from The Teaching Company and was very disappointed. 
Its hard to say exactly why, but I detect an agenda, a bias in their stuff. 
The set I purchased is called "The Great Ideas of Philosophy", which sounds 
nice in theory, but the lecturer is an Aristotelian theist and otherwise 
seemed to be fairly representative of the stuffed-shirt conservatism Pirsig 
encountered at the University of Chicago. I suspect this bias has something 
to do with the impression that "it provides an effective antidote for those 
who think Christian thought is simplistic." As I see it, the Teaching 
Company could rightly be called the Preaching Company. Professor Dan 
Robinson, in the final lecture titled, "God, really?", professes his faith. 
Basically, I want my money back. I've scrutinized the catalogues they've 
been sending and detect this agenda all over the place. Now I just throw 
them away.


>
>There are hundreds of lecture series available though these folk. You can
>load them into your iPod even.
>
>This sounds a bit like a commercial but since I have tended to preview
>rather and purchase these things, I have no vested interest; just wanted to
>share the love.
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