History of Philosophy Audio Archive

Check out the Documentary!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RwLdIiZk_8Sabrina's Bluesky:https://bsky.app/profile/notetoselfzine.bsky.socialWill Patreon:https://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreonBooks and Sources Mentioned:Black Skins, White Masks, and The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Algerian Revolutionary Psychoanalyst)The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Life of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz (About Fanon)Congo, Inc by Marjolijn de JagerThe Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played the World by Hugh WilfordAlso by Wilford: The CIA: An Imperial HistoryKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildPoisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen KinzerRelated, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'NeillMalcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable (cited by Sabrina)Documentary about SS Officer turned NATO Commando: "Der Lachende Mann"MusicAlbum: Ballads (1963) by John ColtraneIntro Piano Music: Schubert Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat Major perf. Max JohnNina Simone: See Line Woman (Live 1989, GDR, Creative Commons)Nina Simone: My Way (same as above)

Contact: williamengels@substack.comSabrina's Stuff: https://bsky.app/profile/notetoselfzine.bsky.socialBoethius Critical Edition I Used (Although not the Translation)https://a.co/d/7qpk2BVMusic Credit: Schubert, Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat Major, performed by Max John https://youtu.be/icowasnkEqwPatreon:https://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreon

Patreon/Tip Jar: ⁠https://patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreon⁠Table of Contents Below >>>Original Course Listing on YouTube:⁠https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEA18FAF1AD9047B0⁠Buy Prof. Kagan's Book on Death:https://a.co/d/8FnPcW1About the Course (Yale)There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact? This course will examine a number of issues that arise once we begin to reflect on our mortality. The possibility that death may not actually be the end is considered. Are we, in some sense, immortal? Would immortality be desirable? Also a clearer notion of what it is to die is examined. What does it mean to say that a person has died? What kind of fact is that? And, finally, different attitudes to death are evaluated. Is death an evil? How? Why? Is suicide morally permissible? Is it rational? How should the knowledge that I am going to die affect the way I live my life?Link to Syllabus/Readings and Course Description:https://oyc.yale.edu/death/phil-176This course has 26 lectures - these (169a) are the first 13, in order. The forthcoming 169b will contain the back half. Shelly says 1-13 are about metaphysics of death, and 14-26 are about value theory of death.Chapters(00:00:00) Intro(00:01:57) Course Introduction(00:45:47) The Nature of Persons(01:23:52) Arguments for the Existence of the Soul I(02:05:09) Arguments for the Existence of the Soul II: Plato's Phaedo(02:47:38) Arguments for the Existence of the Soul III: Free Will and Near-Death Experiences(03:30:56) Arguments for the Existence of the Soul IV: Plato Part 1(04:03:00) Plato Part II(04:44:30) Plato Part III(05:26:55) Plato Part IV(06:09:08) Personal Identity Part I: Identity Across Space and Time and the Soul Theory(06:49:07) Personal Identity Part II: Body and Personality Theory(07:33:58) Personal Identity Part III: Objections to the Personality Theory(08:17:42) Personal Identity Part IV: What Matters?(08:58:21) Schubert Impromptu No. 3 in G-Flat Major performed by Max John, CC License, YouTube-//-

Support the Rebel Alliance: https://patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreonPeople Mentioned:Mahmoud KhalilMaria LugonesByung-Chul HanLars von Trier (dir. Melancholia, 2011)Hannah ArendtTyson YunkaportaConcepts:Kenosis (self-emptying)Books:Putnam, Bowling AloneNews/References:Zinc Mine in Georgia/https://thecurrentga.org/2025/06/20/okefenokee-mine-sale-conservation-fund/Minister of Loneliness UKhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/minister-loneliness-appointed-united-kingdom-180967883/Guy dies in ICE Facilityhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/30/us-ice-detention-deathsFinger Shot Off (graphic)https://www.resetera.com/threads/los-angeles-police-blew-off-my-finger-for-protesting-ice-content-warning-amputation.1233627/ChatGPT Datacenter Depletes Groundwaterhttps://energytheory.com/chatgpts-thirsty-data-centers-are-draining-water-resources/Peter Thiel/Greta Thunberg Interviewhttps://archive.ph/HTIF6Palestinian Youth Movement and Mask off Maerskhttps://www.maskoffmaersk.com/Andrew Callaghan Channel Five Uranium Minehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcPsy8734Vg&pp=ygUlYW5kcmV3IGNhbGxhZ2hhbiBjaGFubmVsIGZpdmUgdXJhbml1bQ%3D%3D

Patreon: https://patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreonPhoto Credit:Morning Tai Chi by Shuolong MaMusic Credit:Music Copyright Kevin MacLeodhttps://youtu.be/qGAcClayOqkCoconut Tree Meme Musichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_5nHIbsjoBooks/SourcesHans-Georg Moeller Daoism Explainedhttps://www.amazon.com/Daoism-Explained-Butterfly-Fishnet-Allegory/dp/0812695631Oliver Sacks, the Man Who Mistook His Wife for a HatIain McGilchrist, the Master and His EmissaryJean Piaget, Concrete Operational/Formal Operationalhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaget%27s_theory_of_cognitive_development#Concrete_operational_stage

Buy Sarah's Book:https://a.co/d/6zROOvVSarah's Socials:Website: https://www.sarahscoles.com/books.htmlBsky: https://bsky.app/profile/sarahscoles.bsky.socialPatreon:https://patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreonREFERENCES:Trump Golden Dome Cost ProjectionSDI / Star Wars in the 1980s with ReaganCosts associated with SENTINEL and ICBM UpgradesFallout and Downwinders, Thyroid Cancer, Nevada Test SiteContact: A Novel by Carl SaganBeethoven's 13th String QuartetYear Zero - Rob ReidHegemony or Survival - Noam ChomskyRussell-Einstein Manifesto on Abolition of War/NukesKellogg/Briand Pact 1928 Abolishing WarOperation Able Archer 83CHROMEDOME/Goldsboro B-52 Crash in NCPalomares Incident in SpainCarnegie Corporation Psychologists:-Moran Cerf-Paul Slovic

At long last, Book 4 of the 5-book masterpiece, De Consolatione de Philosophiae by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius. Translated by W. V. Cooper, critical edition by Goins and Wyman.I would describe this one as "a comfy doozy slightly too close to home."Enjoy~

Patreon: https://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreonBreaking News.....America has bombed 3 Iranian nuclear reactors.Happy summer solstice.ReferencesIraq 1981 Nuclear Reactor Bombing by Israelhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera?wprov=sfla1Kissinger's Flip-Flop on the Iran Deal"Today, the standard claim is that Iran has no need for nuclear power, so it must be pursuing a secret weapons program: "For an oil producer such as Iran, nuclear energy is a wasteful use of resources," Henry Kissinger explains. When the shah was in charge, Kissinger, as Secretary of State, held that " introduction of nuclear power will both provide for the growing needs of Iran's economy and free remaining oil reserves for export Or conversion to petrochemicals." Washington acted to assist these efforts, with Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Rumsfeld also playing significant roles. US universities (my own, MIT, for one, despite overwhelming student opposition) were arranging to train Iranian nuclear engineers, doubtless with Washington's approval, if not initiative. Asked about his reversal, Kissinger responded with his usual engaging frankness: "They were an allied country" before 1 979, so therefore they had a genuine need for nuclear energy."-Noam Chomsky, Failed States, 2006, page 73.Blowback Podcast about Iraqhttps://blowback.show/Season-1Adam Becker's New BookSarah Scoles' New BookHorror and Terror Theory (The Italian Philosopher I Cite)Adriana Cavarero, HorrorismSection on AI and Effective Altruism and MarsSam Bankman-Fried and Will MacAskillInterstellar Astronaut Fight Scene

Come check out the Patreon, where this episode was held in special quarantine for a few months...https://patreon.com/hemlockpatreonNuclear weapons in Iran, Middle East environmental crisis, Israeli grand strategy, US covert action skullduggery, and a healthy reminder that it's all just oil at the end of the day.ReferencesFDR and Saudi King Abdul Azizhttps://www.history.com/articles/fdr-saudi-arabia-king-oilNuclear Blackmail at Conference of MinistersByrnes, on the eve of the first postwar foreign ministers conference to be held in London, remained adamant in opposition to any attempt to cooperate with the Soviets on atomic energy and viewed the bomb as a diplomatic asset that would make the Soviets more amenable. As Stimson observed in his diary, Byrnes went to London fully set on having "the implied threat of the bomb in his pocket during the conference."...In a telling innuendo at the Conference of Foreign Ministers in London in 1945, Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov asked U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes whether he carried the atomic bomb in his side pocket. Byrnes warned, “If you don’t cut out all this stalling and let us get down to work, I am going to pull an atomic bomb out of my hip pocket and let you have it.” Molotov is recorded as having “laughed” at this blatant atomic blackmail. “The Allies are pressing on you to break your will and force you to make concessions,” Stalin coached him from Moscow.https://warontherocks.com/2022/02/moscow-musings-on-brinksmanship-from-stalin-to-putin/Operation AJAX and the CIAhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tatStephen Kinzer's Books:All the Shah's Men (Iran 53 and the CIA)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Shah%27s_MenOverthrow America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraqhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90540.Overthrow

Sabrina is back for the second installment of the Documentary Doctors!As a reminder, you can sign up for her class on Palestine here. If you can't attend you can also donate! And if you can't donate you can still attend!This time we are watching (and curling up in a ball after viewing) The Act of Killing, a 2012 documentary about the massacre of the Indonesian PKI (communist party) in 1965 by Western-backed fascist paramilitaries in Indonesia. The events described occurred following the ouster of Indonesia's last (at least until the 90s) democratically-elected president, Achmed Sukarno and was, according to the CIA, "one of the worst mass-murders of the 20th century" and claimed an estimated 1.5 million lives. Vincent Bevins wrote the definitive book on the subject, "The Jakarta Method".Also there's singing, dancing, stage makeup, women in dresses dancing out of the mouth of a 20 foot tall fish building, karaoke, market stall shakedowns, rape discourse in front of stuffed animal dioramas, glass Swarovski elephants, and a whole host of unspeakable murder-kitsch that you have to see to believe.Viewer discretion (and listener discretion) is advised.