Episodes

  • #139 - Machiavelli Double Episode: Michael Sugrue & Quentin Skinner on Renaissance Politics, the Philosophy of Ruthlessness, Nihilsm, and Why It Is a Double Pleasure to Deceive the Deceiver
    Nov 23 2024

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    Original Sugrue Video:

    https://youtu.be/mU7hdGKOGyk

    Original Skinner Video:

    https://youtu.be/CKGuzJ6GwHM

    Enjoy.

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • #138 - The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Michael Sugrue on the Stoic Ideal, Absolute Power, Resistance to Temptation, and Who Writes a Book to Themself?
    Nov 23 2024

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    Original Video:

    https://youtu.be/Auuk1y4DRgk

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    43 mins
  • #137 - Censorship: Ada Palmer on the Spanish Inquisition, Galileo and Descartes, the Renaissance Book Economy, Government Surveillance, and Self-Censorship
    Nov 15 2024

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    Original Video:

    https://youtu.be/uMMJb3AxA0s

    Original Channel (UChicago Divinity School)

    https://www.youtube.com/@uchicagodivinityschool2166

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • #135b - The Work of John Milton (Part II): John Rogers on Miltonic Power, Satan's Rebellion, Areopagitica, the Blind Prophet, and Justifying the Ways of God to Man
    Nov 14 2024

    Continuation of 135a

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    8 hrs and 46 mins
  • #136 - Carl Jung's Approach to Therapy: Lionel Corbett on Depth Psychology, Mythic Imagery, The Treatment of Psychosis, and the Roots of Magical and Archetypal Thinking
    Nov 14 2024

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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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    Original YouTube

    https://youtu.be/8Ojpm6G3PYw

    Original Channel (The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis):

    https://www.youtube.com/@isps_us

    Lionel Corbett

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

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • #135a - The Work of John Milton: Yale's John Rogers on Miltonic Power, Satan's Rebellion, Areopagitica, the Blind Prophet, and Justifying the Ways of God to Man
    Nov 14 2024

    (00:00:00): Intro

    (00:00:52): Milton and Power

    (00:45:31): The Infant Cry of God

    (01:33:38): Credible Employment

    (02:24:03): Poetry and Virginity

    (03:15:35): Poetry and Marriage

    (04:02:57): Lycidas

    (04:55:10): Lycidas Part II

    (05:48:09): Areopagitica

    (06:35:08): Paradise Lost Book I

    (07:26:50): God and Mammon

    (08:17:49): Miltonic Smile

    (09:03:49): The Blind Prophet

    (09:51:35): Paradise Lost Book III

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    A study of Milton's poetry, with some attention to his literary sources, his contemporaries, his controversial prose, and his decisive influence on the course of English poetry.

    Description courtesy of Yale University, presented Fall 2007, uploaded November 2008. I opted to split this otherwise 19 hour episode into two parts so Spotify can handle it. See 135b.

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    Original YouTube Playlist (Milton with John Rogers): ⁠https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2103FD9F9D0615B7

    Original Channel:

    https://www.youtube.com/@YaleCourses⁠

    John Rogers, Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, retired.

    https://english.yale.edu/people/professors-emeritus/john-rogers⁠

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    10 hrs and 41 mins
  • #134 - The Forgotten People of History: Roy Casagranda on Racism and Sexism in Western Historiography
    Nov 11 2024

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    Talk Originally Titled “Deconstructing Racism and Sexism in the Envisagement of Western Civilization”

    The use of the phrase “all men are created equal” was probably not a deliberate attempt to make a statement about women. It was just that women were beyond consideration as worthy of inclusion. They were politically invisible. Though practical needs gave women a certain authority in the home, on the farm, or in occupations like midwifery, they were simply overlooked in any consideration of political rights, any notions of civic equality.-Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States, 1980⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_United_State-//-

    Original YouTube:

    https://youtu.be/lk4ncpkstAw

    Original Channel:

    https://www.youtube.com/@TheAustinSchool



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    1 hr and 54 mins
  • #133 - The Philosophy of John Dewey: Progressive Education, Occupational Psychosis, American Pragmatism, and Process Philosophy
    Nov 9 2024

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    “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

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_psychosis

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    2 hrs and 49 mins