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Robert C. Solomon
The University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D., University of Michigan
 

Robert C. Solomon was the Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught for more than 30 years. He received his undergraduate degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Pennsylvania and his master's and doctoral degrees in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of Michigan. He held visiting appointments at the University of Pennsylvania; the University of Auckland, New Zealand; UCLA; Princeton University; and Mount Holyoke College.

Professor Solomon won many teaching honors, including the Standard Oil Outstanding Teaching Award; the President's Associates Teaching Award (twice); and the Chad Oliver Plan II Teaching Award. In addition, he was a member of Academy of Distinguished Teachers at UT, which is devoted to providing leadership in improving the quality and depth of undergraduate instruction.

Professor Solomon wrote or edited more than 45 books, including The Passions, About Love, Ethics and Excellence, A Short History of Philosophy with Professor Kathleen Higgins, A Better Way to Think about Business, The Joy of Philosophy, Spirituality for the Skeptic, Not Passion's Slave, and In Defense of Sentimentality. He also designed and provided programs for corporations and organizations around the world. Professor Solomon passed away in early 2007.
 
Courses by this professor:

Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition & No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life (Set)  
By Professor Robert C. Solomon, The University of Texas at Austin
Investigate profound philosophical ideas in these two illuminating courses. In Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition, survey the long chain of debate that began in ancient history and continues through our contemporary world. In No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life, examine a fascinating school of philosophical thought that focuses on fundamental questions of responsibility, morality, and freedom.
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$520 		Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition  
By Professor Robert C. Solomon, The University of Texas at Austin
This course brings together 12 professors for 84 lectures on more than 60 of the most important thinkers in history. Enjoy the benefit of learning from the finest scholar-teachers active today while you study the key ideas of influential philosophers from the pre-Socratics to the Postmodernists. The curriculum is comprehensive, incisive, and thought-provoking—in short, an intellectual experience to be treasured.
Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition & Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life (Set)  
By Professor Robert C. Solomon, The University of Texas at Austin
Investigate profound life lessons and philosophical ideas in these two illuminating courses. Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition is a comprehensive survey of the history of Western philosophy from its origins in classical Greece to the present. Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life takes the underlying ideas of great written works and shows you how to put them to use in a moral and ethical life.
Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition & Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition (Set)  
By Professor Robert C. Solomon, The University of Texas at Austin
Get a comprehensive look at more than 3,000 years of Western intellectual ideas and the profound philosophers who developed them. Start by surveying more than 60 of our intellectual tradition's greatest minds in Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition. Then, continue your exploration of Western philosophy with The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition, in which you focus on the concepts and theories behind these enduring intellectual thinkers.
Great Philosophical Debates: Free Will and Determinism & Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (Set)  
By Professor Robert C. Solomon, The University of Texas at Austin
Discover the answers to some of the most important questions in the history of our Western intellectual tradition. Do you make your own choices in life, or have circumstances beyond your control already decided your destiny? Learn the intriguing details of this fundamental philosophical query with Great Philosophical Debates: Free Will and Determinism. Why is Friedrich Nietzsche the most misinterpreted and unfairly maligned philosopher of the last two centuries? Discover the answer in Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
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$865 		Masters of Greek Thought: Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle & Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition (Set)  
By Professor Robert C. Solomon, The University of Texas at Austin
Meet some of Western philosophy's greatest thinkers and explore their undeniable impact on how we view and understand the world around us with this two-course set. Start with an engaging introduction to the three ancient thinkers who gave birth to our intellectual tradition in Masters of Greek Thought: Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle. Then, get a comprehensive survey of Western philosophy as it extends from its origins in classical Greece up to the dilemmas of the late 20th century in Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition.
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$185 		No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life  
By Professor Robert C. Solomon, The University of Texas at Austin
The message of Existentialism, unlike that of many more obscure and academic philosophical movements, is about as simple as can be. It is that every one of us, as an individual, is responsible—responsible for what we do and responsible for whom we are. If you want to enrich your own understanding of this philosophical movement, the thinkers it brought together, and the prominent role it still plays in contemporary thought, you now have an opportunity to do so with this 24-lecture course.
No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life & Buddhism (Set)  
By Professor Robert C. Solomon, The University of Texas at Austin
Existentialism and Buddhism—two distinct views of the world that offer invaluable insights into the human condition. In No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life, investigate a fascinating school of philosophical thought that examines life's most fundamental questions of responsibility, morality, and freedom. In Buddhism, trace the history, principles, and evolution of a theology that is both familiar and foreign.
Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions  
By Professor Robert C. Solomon, The University of Texas at Austin
Far from being routine, emotions are "the key to the meaning of life," says distinguished philosopher and author Robert C. Solomon, who in these 24 lectures takes you on a tour of his more than three-decade-long intellectual struggle to reach an understanding of these complex phenomena. His conclusions can be surprising and very much against the current of common sense.
Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche  
By Professor Robert C. Solomon, The University of Texas at Austin
Among shapers of contemporary thought, Friedrich Nietzsche is the most mysterious and least understood. To provide flow to Nietzsche’s often puzzling and misunderstood works, this course focuses on the ideas that preoccupied him, while tracing the profound themes that shaped his oeuvre. Is it possible that these themes form the basis of modern Humanistic culture?