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This is an eight lecture series, delivered in 2010 at UC Berkeley by the philosophy professor and overall great human being Hubert "Bert" Dreyfus as part of a Great Books course.

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Original Skinner Video:

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Advisory: This episode is INTENSE and it is not suitable for children. Discusses violence against women and children as well as warfare and torture.

Chris Hedges is one of my living heroes; to the extent that anyone can tell the truth in this blizzard of lies we are all trying to survive, it's him.

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Judith Herman wrote an incredible book called "Trauma and Recovery" which I would wholeheartedly recommend to everyone.

Advisory: Discusses incest, sexual assault, and PTSD.

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In this talk, Jonathan Lear reviews one of my favorite philosophers, the British virtue ethicist and founder of the Neoareatic movement Alasdair MacIntyre, whose 2016 book Ethics In the Conflicts of Modernity has been hugely influential in my own thinking about how we relate, socially and individually, to the questions about justice, beauty, goodness, and truth that run through our lives.

Professor Lear is a practicing clinical psychoanalyst, moral philosopher, and First Nations scholar and advocate whose work on the Crow Nation, "Radical Hope" I strongly recommend.

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On March 22, 2005, Martha Nussbaum visited the John Adams Institute to talk about Upheavals of Thought - The Intelligence of Emotions.

For everybody who thinks that philosophy is a stuffy dull science, practiced by unworldly absent-minded professors: Martha Nussbaum isn’t an abstract scientist who occupies herself with the universe and metaphysics. She is in touch with daily life.

The underlying assumption of her ideas is based on human emotions. According to Nussbaum emotions are no irritating uncontrollable upheavals, which we have to master at all cost, but sensible reactions to everything that really matters to us.

For that reason Nussbaum is considered (as) a typical female philosopher, also because she has an open eye for commonplace things, and knows to empathize with all kind of people.

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This talk describes the ethics and aesthetics of unsentimentality as practiced by some of the late twentieth-century’s most notable women artists and intellectuals. We will consider what it would mean to have an ethics without empathy even in the face of extreme suffering.

Deborah Nelson's Franke Forum talk is titled “An Unsentimental Education: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil." Deborah Nelson is Chair and Professor in the Department of English Language & Literature and the College. Her book: Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, and Weil won the Modern Language Association’s James Russell Lowell Prize for Best Book of 2017 and the Gordan Laing Prize in 2019 for the most distinguished contribution to the University of Chicago Press by a faculty member.

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Chris Hedges explores the cultural, economic, and political forms of fascism that are dredged up by the political phenomenon of Donald Trump's presidency.

Advisory: This presentation is graphic, and contains many detailed descriptions of violence.

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In this 2014 lecture, famed philosopher of mind John Searle, originator of the "Chinese Room" critique of machine intelligence discusses competing theories that attempt to explain the emergence from/relation of consciousness and matter.

Searle focuses especially on refuting ideas put forward by Nick Bostrom and other AI theorists which suggest that AI can have a consciousness of its own, and that furthermore we should be worried about Terminator scenarios where machines come to life - Searle thinks this is nonsense, at least in the sense that we don't have to worry about machines being "motivated" to do something, since machines possess only the 'syntax' and not the 'semantics' required to make the sort of meaning upon which a mental phenomenon like motivation, intentionality, etc, depend.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, comrades and compadres, narcs and Feds I proudly present: the only Michael Parenti lecture in existence with good quality audio.

The gentlemen requires no introduction, but the book on imperialism in the Roman Republic he mentioned in the "E. Badian" quote is none other than Roman Imperialism in the Late Republic, which was less than simple to find.

Repuloaded to fix some minor audio bugs/content.

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“Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs that may be severe, even in a society that lacks such means of control as death squads, psychiatric prisons, or extermination camps. The very structure of the media is designed to induce conformity to established doctrine. In a three-minute stretch between commercials, or in seven hundred words, it is impossible to present unfamiliar thoughts or surprising conclusions with the argument and evidence required to afford them some credibility. Regurgitation of welcome pieties faces no such problem.”

-Noam Chomsky, Necessary Illusions

In this interview, which was undertaken as source material for the incredible and highly recommended documentary Manufacturing Consent, Professor Noam Chomsky describes how the structure of the corporate media - its financial interests, its links to Washington's agenda, and its framing of issues - serves as a form of 'thought control in a democratic society'. Chomsky's critique of the media builds from the fact that media misleads its viewers primarily by omission rather than by outright deceit; it is not that the views presented are obviously false (although they often are) it is more the case that a debate on an issue will be staged between two people who appear to represent the 'entire spectrum' when in reality the Left is absent entirely.

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“Some studies actually showed that that Russian drinkers lived longer than non-drinkers. [Michelle Parsons] suggested an explanation for the apparent vodka paradox: for what it is worth, alcohol may help people adapt to realities that otherwise make them want to curl up and die. Parsons, who called her book "Dying Unneeded", argued that Russians were dying early because they had nothing and no one to live for.”

-Masha Gessen, The Future is History

Masha Gessen is a staff writer for the New Yorker and a scholar of Russian domestic politics, especially in regard to Vladimir Putin. In this discussion, she describes why and how a resurgent cultural right-wing in Russia helmed by Putin has singled out and criminalized the queer community in Russia and pushed standards of toleration back into Russia's illiberal past. She once described herself, accurately, it would seem, as "the only openly gay person in Russia."

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The keynote itself is untitled, and so the title "Putin and the Political Uses of Homophobia" is my attribution.

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“The impoverished families of the long-term unemployed strained to the point of dysfunction, communities deprived of viable economies, interrupted educations, lost skills: these and many more results of capitalism’s crisis will put difficult demands on governments for years."

-Richard Wolff, Democracy at Work

Richard Wolff is an economist and political theorist associated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the New Left. In this discussion, Wolff provides an unauthorized history of capitalism, discusses how corporate damages to society (or 'externalities' in the vernacular of the economics profession) are transferred to the population, how capitalist ideology drives zero-sum competition, and suggests practical policies that could lead to a more equitable distribution to wealth.

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“There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.”

-Roger Scruton, The Soul of the World

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NB: I am not personally a conservative, but I can't pretend that they don't exist, and if I have to listen to one, let it be Roger Scruton.

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“When we think of racism we think of Governor Wallace of Alabama blocking the schoolhouse door; we think of water hoses, lynchings, racial epithets, and "whites only" signs. These images make it easy to forget that many wonderful, goodhearted white people who were generous to others, respectful of their neighbors, and even kind to their black maids, gardeners, or shoe shiners--and wished them well--nevertheless went to the polls and voted for racial segregation... Our understanding of racism is therefore shaped by the most extreme expressions of individual bigotry, not by the way in which it functions naturally, almost invisibly (and sometimes with genuinely benign intent), when it is embedded in the structure of a social system.”

-Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow

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On May 4th, 2016 journalist and political activist Naomi Klein delivered the Edward Said Lecture at the London Review of Books.

She addressed the hierarchies implicit in who survives and who dies in a warming world, the role that transnational capitalism has played in subverting democracy, and the potential vectors for resistance that are available for averting an ecocidal collapse. Her aim in this talk is to describe "the role that systems that rank the value of human beings...have played in deepening that crisis."

The original video can be found here, my gratitude to the London Review of Books for their hosting of the Edward Said Lectures.

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"Bohr was the recipient of the Atoms for Peace Prize. None of us knew what the prize was for, but everyone knew that this was the right man to give it to."

- J. Robert Oppenheimer, May 14th, 1964.

In this talk, the father of the atom bomb explores the perils of the nuclear arms race, the weaponization of science, the tragedy of confrontational Cold War politics, and the loss of his friend and inspiration, Niels Bohr, who died just two years before.

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Original video found here, I've reduced the background noise, cut applause and distracting sounds, and minimized harmonic interference, although it was poorly mic'd and nonetheless has a few artifacts remaining.

My gratitude to the UCLA Communication Archive for preserving this wonderful piece of history.

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In his final Gifford Lecture, Professor Cornel R. West’s jazz-soaked philosophy looks unflinchingly at our own catastrophic times, and says that ‘perhaps’ we can find a way out. How do we go on loving, living, fighting, laughing, crying, swinging and singing? One answer, he proposes, lies in his tradition: the rich tradition of Black love in freedom and Black freedom in love. In literature, the two giants of this tradition are W. E. B. Du Bois and Toni Morrison. And in music, the Black tradition was honed in nearly three centuries of slavery and nearly another century of neo-slavery. This tradition kept a weary people in a God-forsaken world flowing with styles and smiles. As Prof. West powerfully concludes his Gifford Lectures, he shows us how amid catastrophe, this Love Supreme transcends words, flows beneath sentences, and becomes flesh in deeds. ---

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In this lecture, Prof. West argues that the two great philosophically-inclined artists in early twentieth-century America were T.S. Eliot and Eugene O’Neill. Eugene O’Neill’s 49 plays constitute the greatest literary exploration of the cultural and spiritual dynamics of the American empire. Eliot’s work, especially his poems and criticism from 1917-1942, explored the end of the age of Europe with its wars, loveless creatures, hollow men, mindless barbarity, and devastated wastelands. As Prof. West discusses in response to O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh and Eliot’s Four Quartets, both writers understood the profound human tragedy of their times, but, trapped within a waning civilisation, neither artist could find a way out.

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In this lecture, Prof. West argues that the greatest breakthrough in modern philosophy is found in the works of the Italian Giambattista Vico (1668-1744), whose perceptions wedded wisdom, eloquence, prudence, and providence. His 1725 work, The New Science, was the first great philosophic European response to the New World. In it, Vico saw Europe as locked into a dominant ‘barbarism of reflection’, yielding a rapacious individualism, and reducing philosophy to a paralyzing scepticism.

As Prof. West discusses in this talk, Vico responded to this scepticism with his conception of ‘ingenium’, a kind of ingenuity or improvisation that accentuates our creative power to transcend savagery.

The original video can be found here, and the description given above was written by the producers of the lecture series at the University of Edinburgh and provided in the video description.

The episode art is the frontispiece (custom engraving under the cover) for Vico's "The New Science" (Scienza Nuova).

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This third lecture presents Prof. West’s consideration of early modern philosophy, focusing on Erasmus’s The Praise of Folly (1511), as a response to an era that saw devastating religious warfare, plagues, and famines, and the onset of European imperial conquests. The great public intellectual, Erasmus of Rotterdam, directed his classic work to the sheer absurdity, indeterminacy and frailty of human societies. Also discussed is Montaigne, whose self-explorations, including his essays “Of Cannibals” (1580) and “Of Coaches” (1588), were among the first philosophic reflections on the barbaric European colonization of the New World. As Prof. West argues, Erasmus and Montaigne were both path-blazing exemplars of blues, swing and improvisation in philosophy, facing dark folly with a free-style soul-craft.

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Dr. Cornel West, a leading philosopher and activist was invited to give the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh this year (2024). His series, entitled "A Jazz-soaked Philosophy for our Catastrophic Times: From Socrates to Coltrane" is an attempt to explore issues at the intersection of art, race, politics, and philosophy.

Dr. West continues his discussion from the first lecture, this time touching on the necessity/strictures of 'metaphilosophy' - the framework that defines the boundaries and reasons of all the inquiries that occur within it.

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Dr. Cornel West, a leading philosopher and activist was invited to give the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh this year (2024). His series, entitled "A Jazz-soaked Philosophy for our Catastrophic Times: From Socrates to Coltrane" is an attempt to explore issues at the intersection of art, race, politics, and philosophy.

This is Lecture One of Six, titled a "Philosophical Prelude".

The original video link can be found here.

The YT page for the University of Edinburgh is here.

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Economist and political scientist Yanis Varoufakis breaks down his concept of 'technofeudalism' or the successor paradigm to neoliberalism. This address, at the National Press Club of Australia, aired March 13th 2024. Varoufakis' recent book, Technofeudalism, describes these developments in greater detail.

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Veteran war correspondent and journalist Chris Hedges describes the cultural patterns of the COVID era, and elucidates the work of Fritz Stern, a German cultural critic who witnessed the rise of Nazi ideology. Stern's book, The Politics of Cultural Despair, is the foundation of the talk, and Hedge's book America: The Farewell Tour which I have read and recommend, expands on everything in the talk.

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Roy is back with his (technically) a sequel to the WW1 lecture. Audio is noisy until 05:00 mark but is clean afterwards.

This lecture concerns the "interwar" years and details the rise of the Nazis, the downfall of the Weimar Republic, and the growth of cultural and intellectual patterns that would culminate in Hitler's proclamation of "the Master Race" and the "Thousand Year Reich".

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Renowned activist and scholar Noam Chomsky summarizes his lifetime of experience in education, and provides overviews of the divergent mentalities that apply to the goals, curricula, and structure of a real education.

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Professor Roy patiently and passionately explains the centrality of the Arab world to the Renaissance, and describes contributions made by Arabs in medicine, mathematics, law, astronomy, philosophy, and history.

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An interview between the philosopher Martha Nussbaum, who specialize(d) in Ancient Greek philosophy and tragedy and Bryan Magee. Aired originally in 1987. Discusses in particular Aristotelian metaphysics and epistemology, describes the intellectual quarrel between Plato and Aristotle, and describes Aristotle's epistemic method as presented in the Posterior Analytics.

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Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist and philosopher.

He has written two recent books, The Master and His Emissary, and The Matter with Things (2 Volumes) on the mechanism and consequences of the divided brain theory.

This talk, an address given at the Darwin Medical College of Cambridge University, is an overview of right hemisphere versus left hemisphere cognition, and attempts to explain how the linear, logical, abstracting, intolerant, rigid, grasping tendencies embodied in left-hemispheric cognition have won out over the holistic, fluid, explorative, and uncertainty-tolerant right-hemisphere, propelling much of our social and political chaos in the process.

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Dr. Sugrue explores themes in Dostoevsky, makes the comparison between Nietzsche's self-legislating Übermensch and the Raskolnikov character in "Crime and Punishment."

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Discussion of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

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Artwork: White Crucifixion (1938) by Marc Chagall

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Continuation of 135a

Crusades 3 of 3, and discussion of Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (AKA "Saladin").

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Crusades 2 of 3.

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Crusades 1 of 3

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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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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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Another Roderick lecture from his series on 20th century philosophy "Self Under Siege"

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Discourse on freedom in Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit"

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One of the final lectures given by the philosopher Michael Sugrue. The original video can be found here.

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Lecture at the Austin School on the history and evolutionary dynamics of Masculinity.

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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...

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Dulce et Decorum Est

by Wilfred Owen

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks
Knock-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 est
Pro patria mori.

Composed October 1917,

published posthumously 1920.

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“The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites—day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.”

-C. G. Jung, Man and His Symbols, 1964

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Lionel Corbett

https://www.pacifica.edu/faculty/lionel-corbett/

Third lecture

Same source as previous

Preserved on Internet Archive

https://archive.org/details/Philosophy_185_Fall_2007_UC_Berkeley/

Recorded at UC Berkeley in Fall 2007