History of Philosophy Audio Archive

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon In this episode, Chris Hedges interview Princeton political scientist Sheldon Wolin, exploring his work in books like Democracy Incorporated and Politics and Vision. Recorded October 2014. Professor Wolin passed away in October 2015. -//- Original video https://youtu.be/YjfKosDBOzQ The Real News Network https://www.youtube.com/@therealnews S...

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon In this conversation with environmental ethicist Guillermo Zapata we discuss the role of indigenous philosophy in shaping our approach to environmental problems, the most pressing threats emerging from climate change, and how we can resist the encroachment of corporate and political interests that are contrary to rational and urgent action o...

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers the most: and h...

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon When we are the victims of illusion, we do not feel it to be an illusion but a reality. It is the same perhaps with evil. Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty…. Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always...

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon According to Max Planck, ‘Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.’ And he continued: ‘Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And...

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whol...

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon A Portuguese Jew living in Holland, Spinoza was excommunicated because of the unorthodox view he took of God. Spinoza wrote in the rationalist style of a geometric proof to develop his idea of God as the infinite, indwelling cause of all things, a unified causal system that is virtually synonymous with nature. In this system, there is no fre...

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins. -Soren Kierkegaard, 1848 For Kierkegaard, truth is a subjective reality which we must live, not simply something to consider and discuss. His self-consciousness and self-examination highlight the practical demands of existence, and he opposes the speculative thinking...

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Thomas Aquinas is the smartest man who ever lived - with the sole exception of Jesus Christ. -Peter Kreeft, Professor of Philosophy at Boston College St. Thomas Aquinas is known for producing history’s most complete system of Christian philosophy. In the late thirteenth century, this quiet, reflective Dominican scholar combined the work of A...

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon David Hume (1711-1776) has been called "the greatest philosophical mind in the English language" by Cornel West, and is one of the most influential philosophers of the Enlightenment era. In this lively and fully-acted performance, Hollywood actor Charlton Heston narrates an overview of Hume's life, philosophy, and influence as...

We did it - 100 episodes! Celebrate with 12 hours of Plato! My Patreon page: https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon (00:00:00) - Intro (00:00:51) - The Domain of the Dialogues (01:31:20) - The Examined Life (02:16:42) - Tragedy in the Philosophic Age of the Greeks (03:00:16) - Republic I (03:46:46) - Republic II (04:30:45) - Republic III (05:16:40) - The Laws and Cephalus (06:01:33) - Protagoras: The...

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon World-renowned professor of linguistics and lifelong political dissident Noam Chomsky addressed The New School in September 2015 about the threats facing the civilized world as we neared the third decade of the 21st century. His predictions and analyses are more prescient now than they were even then. Enjoy. -//- Original video (The New Scho...

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon In order to do philosophy at all we have to find ways to discuss difficult topics in a way that allows other people to approach and understand us. Conversation is an infinite game - how can we establish ground rules for communication that allow players to keep coming back and keep the ball of dialogue in the air? Marshall Rosenberg is the au...

Note: This episode contains a graphic description of torture. Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon In this 1993 talk Michael Parenti explores the techniques that imperial powers such as the United States use in order to reduce "Third World" countries like Mexico, Guatemala, Iran, and so forth to dependency and economic vulnerability.

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon (00:00:00) Intro (00:00:52) Phenomenology of Spirit (00:45:36) Hegel & the Meaning of History Enjoy -//-

Come join my Patreon! It's free! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon The late David Graeber was an anthropologist who often ventured into uncharted waters in the social sciences, exploring pirates, bullshit jobs, and the history of debt and currency. In this talk, he breaks down the moral psychology of debt, the history of currency, and why we all feel like we are "owed our due." Enjo...

Come join my Patreon! ⁠https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon⁠ (00:00:00) - Intro (00:00:52) - Part 7: Form From Chaos (00:41:36) - Part 8: Creativity & Chaos (01:26:21) - Part 9: Chaos & Imagination (1/2) (02:08:08) - Part 10: Chaos & Imagination (2/2) -//-

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon (00:00:00) - Intro (00:00:50) - Part 4: Fractal History (00:54:51 ) - Part 5: Creativity and the Imagination (1/2) (01:40:24) - Part 6: Creativity and the Imagination (2/2) -//- Part 4 - Fractal History at the Edge of the Millennium The fractal idea of history, and millennia as the plateaus of history. These bifurcation periods as opportunit...

A DMT priest, an evolutionary biologist, and a chaos mathematician walk into a hot-tub in California... (00:00:00) - Host Intro (00:00:43) - Cast of Characters (00:51:12) - The Evolutionary Mind (02:00:17) - Superintelligent AI -//- My Patreon! Buy the ticket, take the ride! https://patreon.com/hemlockpatreon Descriptions courtesy Sheldrake.org https://www.sheldrake.org/audios/the-sheldrake-mckenn...

Come join my Patreon! ⁠https://www.patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Old Bob Explains Everything Once Again Check out Prometheus Rising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_Rising

(00:00:00) Introduction (00:01:23) The Thresholds of Mythology (00:56:06) The Inward Journey (01:44:15) Confrontation of East and West In Religion (02:33:56) Imagery of Rebirth in Yoga (03:27:28) The World Soul -//- Come join my Patreon! ⁠https://www.patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Recorded in 1969. Enjoy

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How can the economy be reorganized to serve human needs and preserve the environment while maintaining growth and technological advancement? What future technologies promise a better future? Jeremy Rifkin is a path-breaking and heretical economist with a vision of a future in which the economy is re-conceived from the ground-up to ensure that everyone has what they need in order to flourish. -//-...

"I am suing the cigarette company - I have been smoking nothing but Pall Malls since I was 11. Right there on the package it says 'this stuff will kill you' - and I'm still alive, god damn it!" -Kurt Vonnegut, 81 years, old, Case Western Reserve University, 2004.

David Bentley Hart is an American theologian that works at the intersection of faith, philosophy, aesthetics, and Eastern religion. In this talk, he discusses the convergences of thought between (so-called) Eastern and Western mystics and outlines his critique of New Atheism. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt9HSQZMQYM Enjoy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bentley_Hart