Afleveringen
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Originally titled âThe Search for a Meaningful Pastââ
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NB: The chapter on Mircea Eliade has been already published on this channel as HoPAA #158.
Chapters:
(00:00:00)-Intro
(00:00:36)-1.Philosophies, Theories, and Interpretations of Human History
(00:43:56)-2.Mircea Eliade's Cosmos and History of Cyclical Time
(01:29:07)-3.Vico's New Science of History
(02:16:01)-4.Kant's Idea for a Universal History
(03:02:54)-5.Hegel's Philosophy of History
(03:49:59)-6.Marx's Historical Materialism
(04:32:10)-7.Nietzsche's Critique of Historical Consciousness
(05:19:49)-8.Weber's Historical Sociology
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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A Creative Commons Zero (unrestricted free public domain use) production of Boethius' "Consolation of Philosophy" read by the host, William Engels.
This is Book 2, "Fortune's Wheel".
Translation is WV Cooper, with host amendments for style and clarity.
https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/boethius/jkok/2p1_u.htm
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Clarifications:
Prokaryotes emerged 3.5-.3.8 billion years ago (BYA), eukaryotes/endocytosis emerged 2 BYA.
Chapters
(00:00:00)-Introduction to Gaia Wakes and Its Themes
(00:09:06)-The Intellectual Clash of the Cold War
(00:16:06)-The Dialectic of Predation and Domestication
(00:50:01)-The Emergence of a Planetary Consciousness
(00:55:44)-The Scalar Organization of Life and Learning
(01:02:20)-Consciousness and the Models of Our Models
(01:08:28)-The Emergence of AI Consciousness
(01:18:00)-Ethics and AI Personhood
(01:24:42)-The Future of AI and Human Interaction
(01:52:23)-The Role of Humanity in Ecosystem Stewardship
(01:58:10)-Synthesis of Biological and Technological Systems
(02:06:09)-The Future of Energy and Resource Management
(02:12:05)-The Logic of Coordination and Planning
(02:18:15)-Technological Progress and Economic Impact
(02:31:03)-Recommendations for Further Reading
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Summary
In this conversation, William engages with Professor Topher McDougal about his upcoming book, 'Gaia Wakes,' which explores themes of planetary consciousness, artificial intelligence, and the interplay between human development and ecological challenges. They discuss historical intellectual debates during the Cold War, the dialectic of predation and domestication in evolutionary processes, and the potential for a centralized planetary consciousness to address environmental issues.
In this conversation, McDougal explores the intricate relationship between learning, consciousness, and the emergence of AI. He discusses the scalar organization of life, the models we create to navigate our environment, and the potential for AI to develop consciousness. The ethical implications of AI personhood and the future of human interaction with AI are also examined, highlighting the need for a robust framework for understanding and guiding these developments.
In this conversation, the speaker explores the intricate relationship between humanity, technology, and the environment. They discuss the role of humans as custodians of ecosystems, drawing parallels with natural systems like slime molds. The synthesis of biological and technological systems is highlighted, along with the potential risks associated with rapid technological advancements.
The conversation also delves into the future of energy management, the importance of planning for sustainability, and the disjunction between meaningful work and economic realities. Recommendations for further reading are provided to deepen understanding of these themes.
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00:00-Introduction
02:30-The 1919 Revolution: A Catalyst for Change
10:38-Emergence of Dominant Ideologies in the Arab World
20:59-The United Arab Republic: A Pan-Arab Dream
23:48-Yemen's Civil War: Echoes of History
28:24-The 1973 Arab-Israeli War and Its Aftermath
38:27-Kissinger's Chaos and Middle Eastern Alliances
41:20-The Rise of Tyranny and Civil Wars
45:45-The Arab Spring: A Wave of Change
52:31-Yemen's Fragile Democracy and the Houthi Revolution
56:44-The Complexity of Yemen's Civil War
01:01:43-The Future of Yemen: Hope or Despair?
01:07:47-The Impact of Climate Change on Yemen's Stability
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It's finally here, and we're just getting started: Book I of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy with a new intro by me.
(00:00:00) - Historical Introduction
(00:22:54) - Note on Translation & Performance
(00:26:16) - Book 1
(01:03:23) - Outro
Please consider purchasing the book that inspired this project, the Ignatius Critical Edition translated by Scott Goins and Barbara H. Wyman:
https://a.co/d/3A2j8PS
Full Text of the Cooper Translation:
https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/boethius/jkok/1m1_u.htm-//-
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(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:01:55) - Staloff on Eliade
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Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/william-engels.bsky.social
Darren Staloff:
https://hamilton.center.ufl.edu/people/darren-staloff/
Mircea Eliade:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mircea_Eliade
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We did it! 100 reviews on Spotify!
To celebrate, we are kicking off an open-source audiobook project celebrating Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, a deathbed prose poem written at the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the birth of what is (somewhat unfortunately, but not for no reason called) the Dark Ages.
00:00:00 Announcement
00:08:36 Scholarly Introduction to the Consolation
This introduction is found in the Ignatius Critical Edition of Boethius, and the public domain text we will be using for the reading is the WV Cooper translation which can be found here:https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924073630026&seq=11
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We must needs densify the social fabric, compadres...
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âThis is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But you have to choose: live or tell.â
-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea, 1938.
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00:00:00 Intro
00:00:33 Sartre: Life and WW2
00:30:33 The Emotions and Responsibility
01:00:28 Phenomenology & Consciousness
01:30:54 Bad Faith and Inauthenticity
02:01:14 Being-for-Others & "No Exit"
02:31:14 Love & the Romantic Life
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"In the realm of religion, people are ruled by a product of their own heads, and it is just so in capitalist production, except that here people are ruled by the products of their own hands."
Karl Marx, "Capital Volume One", translated by Paul Reitter, edited by Paul North.
Links:
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Paul Reitter
https://germanic.osu.edu/people/reitter.4
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One of my favorite things ever recorded - if you haven't already, prepare for a wild, wild, ride.
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But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul is to be expunged; this I shall do by printing in the infernal method by corrosives, which in Hell are salutary and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the infinite which was hid. If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern.
-William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790.
Original Video:
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âChangeâ is the description of the adventures of eternal objects in the evolving universe of actual things.â
â Alfred North Whitehead, Process and RealityTable of Contents:
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:06:05) - Why All Life is Process
(00:57:00) - Evolution
(01:50:03) - Humans and their Fellow Travelers
(02:40:55) - Personal Identity
(03:29:03) - Human Nature and Human Kinds
(04:22:27) - Free Will
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Gifford Lectures Info Page for Dupré: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/gifford-lectures/2023/05/02/john-dupre-a-world-of-things
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Update/Correction: I misstated the executive order number (it's 9066 not 9006) and stated that Korematsu v. United States still technically had legal precedence - in fact it lost legal precedence in 2018 with Trump v. Hawaii. Links below.
Photos:
https://www.desertsun.com/picture-gallery/news/2020/01/28/photos-take-look-inside-adelanto-ice-detention-center/4602066002/
Stephen Miller Stovepiping False Immigration Statistics in 2018
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/white-house-rejects-report-that-doesnt-match-trumps-facts
FDR Executive Order 9066 Leading to Japanese Internment:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Executive-Order-9066
Korematsu v. United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korematsu_v._United_States
Sexual Violence Statistics:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/191137/reported-forcible-rape-cases-in-the-usa-since-1990/?__sso_cookie_checker=failed
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When we reach 100 reviews on Spotify I will record and drop a public domain philosophy audiobook - free for the end of time, licensed under the unrestricted MIT/Gnu Public License. So hit the button, people. You too, Apple Podcast audienceâŠ
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Link to Ep 1 on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/c6c5W2RsvkE?si=lMuZ1gxIVmNqEX8_
Link to Professor Casagranda's YouTube Page
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(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:04:57) - Part 1: Arabs, Romans, Seljuks, Popes, and Normans (CE 700-1108)
(01:48:00) - Part 2: 35 Years of Chaos, Assassinations, and Madness
(02:58:47) - Part 3: Intro to Saladin, aka Salah ud-Din
(04:54:28) - Part 4: Conclusion to Salah ud-Din, Finale of the Crusades
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âWorlds on worlds are rolling ever from creation to decay - Like the bubbles on a river: Sparkling, bursting, borne away.â
Percy Shelley, Hellas, 1822
â https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellas_(poem)â
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(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:00:35) - What is Romanticism?
(00:33:33) - Folk Culture, the Ballad Tradition, and Robert Burns
(01:11:53) - Wordsworth and Coleridge: Ballads of Nature and the Supernatural
(01:45:19) - Wordsworthâs Lyrical Ballads 1798 and 1800: Rustic Life and the Questionable Pleasures of Nature
(02:22:31) - The Descriptive-Meditative Poem and the Divine in Nature
(02:56:32) - Wordsworth and the Invention of Childhood
(03:32:36) - Blake and Infantine Innocence
(04:04:31) - Blake and Satanic Energy
(04:40:58) - The Byronic Hero
(05:17:17) - Byron and Shelley: Darkness and Light
(05:51:15) - Gothic Horrors: Coleridge's âChristabelâ and Mary Shelley's âFrankensteinâ
(06:23:21) - Keats's (Mock-) Gothic Romances
(06:58:35) - Keats's Great Odes
(07:30:39) - Byron's Comic Epic: Don Juan
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â Adam Potkayâ is a professor of English at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and a recipient of a 2009 Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence. In August 2009, he was designated William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities. In 1996, Professor Potkay and his wife and fellow College of William and Mary professor Monica Brzezinski Potkay were jointly honored with the College of William and Maryâs Alumni Fellowship Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Professor Potkay has also been a visiting professor at Columbia University and at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He received his B.A. from Cornell University (1982), an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University (1986), and his Ph.D. from Rutgers University (1990).
A distinguished scholar of eighteenth-century literature and culture, Professor Potkay has published works that include The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume (Cornell University Press, 2000) and The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume (Cornell University Press, 1994). He is the coeditor (with Sandra Burr) of a collection of autobiographies and sermons by some of the earliest black writers in English, Black Atlantic Writers of the Eighteenth Century: Living the New Exodus in England and the Americas (St. Martinâs Press, 1995). He has published scholarly articles and more popular essays in a wide variety of journals, from 18th-Century Studies and Studies in Early Modern Philosophy to Philosophy Now and Raritan Quarterly.
Professor Potkay was recently named a co-winner of the Harry Levin Prize awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association for his book The Story of Joy: From the Bible to Late Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2007). The Story of Joy outlines an intellectual and literary history of joy, especially the treatments of joy in literature, philosophy, and religion, with an emphasis on British and German works from the Reformation through the Romantic period.
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âAs long as the general population is passive, apathetic, and diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.â
Noam Chomsky, Who Rules the World?, 2017.
Recorded at the New York YM Poetry Center, Broadcast YWHA, February 1970
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Text Link
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Guest Bio:
Michael Albertus is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and the author of five books. His newest book, Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies, will be published by Basic Books in January 2025. It tells the story of how land came to be power within human societies, how it shapes power, and how its allocation determines the major social ills that societies grapple with.
Albertus studied math, electrical engineering, and political science at the University of Michigan and earned degrees in all three in 2005. He then did a PhD in political science at Stanford University, completing in 2011. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Albertus joined the University of Chicago faculty in 2012 and has since been on sabbatical twice back at Stanford, including as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavior Sciences. In addition to his books, Albertus is also the author of nearly 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, including at flagship journals like the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and World Politics.He has taught courses to undergraduate, Masters, and PhD students on topics including inequality and redistribution, democracy and dictatorship, comparative politics, and political and economic development and policy in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.
The defining features of Albertus' work are his engagement with big questions and puzzles and the ability to join big data and cutting-edge research methods with original, deep on-the-ground fieldwork everywhere from government offices to archives and farm fields. He has conducted fieldwork throughout the Americas, southern Europe, South Africa, and elsewhere. His books and articles have won numerous awards and shifted conventional understandings of democracy, authoritarianism, and the consequences of how humans occupy and relate to the land.-//-
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