Dr. Arthur F. Holmes
Dr. Holmes taught philosophy at Wheaton College for over 40 years. He twice one the teacher of the year at Wheaton and taught such notable scholars as Mark Noll, Phillip Ryken, William Lane Craig, and C. Stephen Evans. He wrote 14 books on topics of philosophy, ethics and Christian education. These include Christianity and Philosophy, All Truth is God’s Truth, Ethics: Approaching Moral Decisions, Faith Seeks Understanding: A Christian Approach to Knowledge as well as many others.
The links here are to a series of 81 videos recording Dr. Holmes’ magisterial teaching on the History of Philosophy recorded at Wheaton College and made freely available on Youtube through the generosity of Wheaton College. We are grateful to their willingness to make Dr. Holmes’ teaching available to all. I will be building Study Guides, Podcast formats et al. using AI to make these superb lectures more easily accessible. Click on his numbered image to go to the lecture at Youtube.
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 02 The Moral Universe in the Pre-Socractics (63 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 03 The Greek Sophists (50 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 04 Plato’s Epistemology (60 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 05 Plato’s Theory of Forms (57 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 06 Plato on God (55 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 07 God and Plato on the Human Soul (65 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 08 Plato’s Ethics (44 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 09 Plato (conclusions) and Aristotle’s Metaphysics (61 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 10 Aristotle’s Metaphysics 1 (57 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 11 Aristotle’s Metaphysics 2 (52 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 12 Aristotle’s God (60 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 13 Aristotle’s Epistemology and the Human Soul (63 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 14 Aristotle’s Ethics (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 15 Epicurean Philosophy (63 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 16 Stoicism (64 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 17 Greek and Roman Skepticism (57 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 18 Middle and Neo-Platonism (56 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 19 Neo-Platonism and the Church Fathers (62 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 20 Augustine and Neo-Platonism (48 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 21 Augustine’s Christian Philosophy (62 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 22 Early Medieval Philosophy (65 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 23 Problem of Universals (63 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 24 Thomas Aquinas’ Christian Aristotelianism (41 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 25 Aquinas on God (63 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 26 Aquinas’ Moral Psychology and Ethics (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 27 Duns Scotus and William of Ockham (60 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 28 Summing Up Ockham’s Revolution (60 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 29 Francis Bacon (61 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 30 Thomas Hobbes (62 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)
Dr. Arthur F. Holmes, Session 01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy (49 mins)