

History of Philosophy Audio Archive
William Engels
Curated lectures, interviews, and talks with philosophers, social scientists, and historians together in one place. Each week, we explore brand new research in history, economics, psychology, political science, philosophy, indigenous studies, and human rights while presenting the work of canonical scholars in a way that is accessible to newcomers while retaining interest for students and specialists. If you are an author in nonfiction or a scholar in the humanities/social sciences and are interested in being interviewed for the show please email me at williamengels@substack.com or @Bluesky.
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Apr 9, 2024 • 1h 11min
Roy Casagranda - Crusades Part 2
Crusades 2 of 3.
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Apr 9, 2024 • 1h 44min
Roy Casagranda - Crusades Part 1
Crusades 1 of 3
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Apr 9, 2024 • 1h 26min
Epicurus and Epicureans - Gregory Sadler
Professor G. Sadler breaks down the world of Epicureans and situates Epicureanism in its historical context while reviewing the major doctrines of the school.
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YouTube Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9kL2FMMDZA
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Apr 9, 2024 • 44min
Schopenhauer "The World as Will and Idea" - M. Sugrue
Professor Sugrue's introductory lecture on why Schopenhauer was so grumpy and what exactly MS means when he says that Schoppy described 'the metaphysics from hell.'
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Mar 19, 2024 • 47min
Rick Roderick - Habermas and the Fragile Dignity of Humanity
Another Roderick lecture from his series on 20th century philosophy "Self Under Siege"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itGtf3ZSkyQ
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Mar 19, 2024 • 41min
Rick Roderick - Hegel and Modern Life
Discourse on freedom in Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Original video available here, audio tweaks and trims were made to make the audio cleaner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MsNyR-epBM
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Mar 19, 2024 • 60min
Sugrue on the Origin of Science
One of the final lectures given by the philosopher Michael Sugrue. The original video can be found here.
https://youtu.be/GI3ZcEbvTO0
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Feb 29, 2024 • 1h 57min
Roy Casagranda - Masculinity
Lecture at the Austin School on the history and evolutionary dynamics of Masculinity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOO4F1ycDE
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Feb 29, 2024 • 1h 58min
#16 - World War One (WWI): Roy Casagranda
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Austin School professor Roy Casagranda lectures on the origins and combat of World War 1. Professor Casagranda brings an idiosyncratic and unvarnished perspective on the Great War, which ended not with a peace, as everyone had hoped, but what French general Ferdinand Foch prophetically called in 1919 a 'Twenty Year Armistice'.
It would turn out that Foch was wrong, but only by only a few months...
The original YouTube video can be found here.
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Dulce et Decorum Est
by Wilfred Owen
Bent double, like old beggars under sacksKnock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,Till in the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin,
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer,
Bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,–
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori.
Composed October 1917,
published posthumously 1920.
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Feb 27, 2024 • 1h 16min
Hubert Dreyfus on Heidegger's Being and Time (3)
Third lecture