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Hubert "Bert" Dreyfus (1929-2017) was a professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley who specialized in phenomenology, 20th century Continental philosophy, artificial intelligence, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, and the aesthetics/literature of existentialism from Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard to Terrence Malick. He is probably most famous for his exposition of Heidegger's early masterpiece "Being and Time" (German: Sein und Zeit), and for his negative predictions about artificial intelligence. He taught multiple courses through MOOCs from roughly 2006-2012 about Greek philosophy, existentialism in film and literature, Heidegger's opus Being & Time, and the limits of AI. In this course he uses the Fitzgerald poetic translation of the Odyssey with his own amendments and R. Lattimores' meaning-literal translation.
He was also extremely kind to me.
Arete, techne, poesis, aletheia, gnosis...
Books Mentioned:
The Discovery of the Mind - Bruno Snell
The Greeks and the Irrational - E. R. Dodds
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History of Philosophy Audio Archive