History of Philosophy Audio Archive

"When someone asks you if you would like for your daughter to be honored by the god, always make sure you ask "Which god, exactly?" before replying. -Roy, in this talk, with a sick laugh, paraphrased. -//- Original YouTube (Part 1): https://youtu.be/wHRJyjvqeYo?si=6rZPXS4G5tja6nxu Original YouTube (Part 2): https://youtu.be/uraDUVCRsNc?si=bNOu-n05uT1uS8vB All rights reserved to the Austin School YouTube Channel, please don't sue me, I'm on your side: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAustinSchool

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “Industrial capitalism transformed nature’s raw materials into commodities, and surveillance capitalism lays its claims to the stuff of human nature for a new commodity invention. Now it is human nature that is scraped, torn, and taken for another century’s market project. It is obscene to suppose that this harm can be reduced to the obvious fact that users receive no fee for the raw material they supply. That critique is a feat of misdirection that would use a pricing mechanism to institutionalize and therefore legitimate the extraction of human behavior for manufacturing and sale. It ignores the key point that the essence of the exploitation here is the rendering of our lives as behavioral data for the sake of others’ improved control of us. The remarkable questions here concern the facts that our lives are rendered as behavioral data in the first place; that ignorance is a condition of this ubiquitous rendition; that decision rights vanish before one even knows that there is a decision to make; that there are consequences to this diminishment of rights that we can neither see nor foretell; that there is no exit, no voice, and no loyalty, only helplessness, resignation, and psychic numbing; and that encryption is the only positive action left to discuss when we sit around the dinner table and casually ponder how to hide from the forces that hide from us.” -Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism -//- Art Credit Rose Dixon-Campbell:https://www.woroni.com.au/words/male-gaze-as-panopticon/Original YouTube (Dartmouth, 2024):https://youtu.be/afOWUuimwOI?si=dvmLMDBWpaPlGyqq

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Recorded in March 1989. “The surest way to eradicate a people’s right to their land is to deny their historical connection to it.” -Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine “It is useful to remember that no matter where we turn, there is rarely any shortage of elevated ideals to accompany the resort to violence.” -Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival  “But beyond numbers, it is the deep chasm between reality and representation that is most bewildering in the case of Palestine. It is indeed hard to understand, and for that matter to explain, why a crime that was perpetrated in modern times and at a juncture in history that called for foreign reporters and UN observers to be present, should have been so totally ignored.”  -Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine -//- Original YouTube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLEMpXvr0s1SkexwYQWyM2a1FpMDbuQ-s&si=WsD23qhAmQN-At_M

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Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon I, too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. -Albert Camus, The Stranger, trans. Stuart Gilbert, 1942. All chapter titles and source material credited to the phenomenal YouTube channel Philosophy Overdose. The episode art is a still from Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece The Seventh Seal, 1957. 00:00 Socrates & Plato on Knowledge  10:18 Aristotle on Knowledge  12:41 Inner Self & External World 33:30 Heidegger & Kierkegaard  36:42 Kierkegaard & the Infinite 38:43 Kierkegaard: The Temporal & Eternal  48:01 How Do We Encounter Reality?  52:43 Merleau-Ponty & the Intentional Arc  54:22 Meaning in Life - From Heidegger to Dostoyevsky  58:13 Getting in Contact with Reality  1:01:14 Sartre's Being & Nothingness  1:05:15 Human Nature - From Ancient Times to Pascal  1:12:55 Human Nature - From Kierkegaard to Sartre  1:20:22 Darwin & Human Nature  1:28:11 Artificial Intelligence  1:40:06 Nietzsche & the Death of God -//- Original YouTube Video https://youtu.be/iAxu6pg7JU0?si=Xkuws5V0h-b6HEYq Original Channel https://www.youtube.com/@Philosophy_Overdose

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"The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters." -Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, 1929. Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Credit for the copy below as well as the source videos goes to the great YouTube channel Philosophy Overdose. The lectures were first delivered in 1965. Isaiah Berlin gives a series of 6 lectures on Romanticism and some of its sources. For Berlin, the Romantics set in motion a vast, unparalleled revolution in humanity’s view of itself. They destroyed the traditional notions of objective truth and validity in ethics with incalculable, all-pervasive results. As he said of the Romantics elsewhere: “The world has never been the same since, and our politics and morals have been deeply transformed by them. Certainly this has been the most radical, and indeed dramatic, not to say terrifying, change in men’s outlook in modern times.” In these brilliant lectures Berlin surveys the myriad attempts to define Romanticism, distills its essence, traces its developments from its first stirrings to its apotheosis, and shows how its lasting legacy permeates our own outlook. Combining the freshness and immediacy of the spoken word with Berlin’s inimitable eloquence and wit, the lectures range over a cast of the greatest thinkers and artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including Kant, Rousseau, Diderot, Schiller, Schlegel, Novalis, Goethe, Blake, Byron, and Beethoven. Berlin argues that the ideas and attitudes held by these and other figures helped to shape twentieth-century nationalism, existentialism, democracy, totalitarianism, and our ideas about heroic individuals, individual self-fulfillment, and the exalted place of art. This is the record of an intellectual bravura performance–of one of the century’s most influential philosophers dissecting and assessing a movement that changed the course of history. These Mellon lectures were delivered in Washington in 1965. -//- Philosophy Overdose: https://www.youtube.com/@Philosophy_Overdose YouTube Source Material: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_9uxkmfSIt2JJK6oKbXmd-&si=6livdDSyZL9-vzhk

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In this engaging conversation, Chris Hedges interviews Sheldon Wolin, a distinguished Princeton political scientist known for his insights on democracy. They dive into the concept of inverted totalitarianism, which depicts a democracy seemingly governed by corporate interests rather than the people. Wolin distinguishes between classical and modern forms of totalitarianism, critiques the impact of capitalism on democratic foundations, and discusses challenges to civic engagement. The conversation urges for grassroots movements to combat corporate influence and re-establish genuine democratic principles.