History of Philosophy Audio Archive

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “On the other hand, if an experience arouses curiosity, strengthens initiative, and sets up desires and purposes that are sufficiently intense to carry a person over dead places in the future, continuity works in a very different way. Every experience is a moving force.” -John Dewey, Experience and Education, 1938 -//- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_psychosis

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “All conservative ideologies justify existing inequities as the natural order of things, inevitable outcomes of human nature. If the very rich are naturally so much more capable than the rest of us, why must they be provided with so many artificial privileges under the law, so many bailouts, subsidies and other special considerations - at our expense? Their "naturally superior talents" include unprincipled and illegal subterfuge such as price-fixing, stock manipulation, insider training, fraud, tax evasion, the legal enforcement of unfair competition, ecological spoliation, harmful products and unsafe work conditions. One might expect naturally superior people not to act in such rapacious and venal ways. Differences in talent and capacity as might exist between individuals do not excuse the crimes and injustices that are endemic to the corporate business system.” ― Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds, 1997 -//- Original YouTube (1988) https://youtu.be/4vKfejeruhk Original Channel (AfroMarxist) https://www.youtube.com/@AfroMarxist

“The Great Way is not difficult, for those who have no preferences" -Xinxin Ming, Tang Dynasty Chan Buddhist Poem Check out Astika's Website: https://www.consciousness-light.com/ Check out Astika's Book: https://a.co/d/7jXvINK -//- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinxin_Ming https://zenmoments.org/hsin-hsin-ming-the-great-way

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “The [music of the] Blues is relevant today because when we look down through the corridors of time, the black American interpretation of tragicomic hope in the face of dehumanizing hate and oppression will be seen as the only kind of hope that has any kind of maturity in a world of overwhelming barbarity and bestiality. That barbarity is found not just in the form of terrorism but in the form of the emptiness of our lives - in terms of the wasted human potential that we see around the world. In this sense, the blues is a great democratic contribution of black people to world history.” -Cornel West, Democracy Matters, 2004 -//- Original YouTube: https://youtu.be/k5ydesBadno  Published March 2022 by The New School: https://www.youtube.com/@thenewschool 

“Destroying hope is a critically important project. And when it is achieved, formal democracy is allowed—even preferred, if only for public relation purposes. In more honest circles, much of this is conceded. Of course, it is understood much more profoundly by beasts in men's shapes who endure the consequences of challenging the imperatives of stability and order.” -Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival, 2003

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Philosophy could be characterized with only a bit of irony as what is left if you begin with the sum total of human thought and subtract those areas in which clear progress has been made.-Talbot Brewer, The Retrieval of Ethics, 2009 -//- Original YouTube: https://youtu.be/geBkIGDEU-k  Published February 2017 by the University of Chicago https://www.youtube.com/@UChicago 

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon "Human civilization is the result of ten million years of striving after the unspeakable" -Terence McKenna

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.” ― Slavoj Žižek, Interview with the Guardian, October 2014 -//- Original YouTube: https://youtu.be/lorX77nu3Jk Published April 2024 by Seton Hall University https://www.youtube.com/@setonhall

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct, she has little chance of evolving another.” -James Lovelock, The Vanishing Face of Gaia, 2009 Original YouTube: https://youtu.be/JtBuJbCwdyo Recorded 2011, Published October 2016 by CSUMB.https://www.youtube.com/@digitalcommonscsumb2306