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Books and ideas! Deepen your understanding of Philosophy, Literature, Politics, Ethics, Art & Culture. If your'e a student you might find these videos useful as study guides. Teachers and professors should feel free to use them as resources in their own courses.
I'm an Associate Professor of Great Books at St. Thomas University. My research focuses primarily on Shakespeare and early modern political thought.
I'm also the author of Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes: Dead Body Politics. (Link below)
I'm an Associate Professor of Great Books at St. Thomas University. My research focuses primarily on Shakespeare and early modern political thought.
I'm also the author of Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes: Dead Body Politics. (Link below)
How To Be A Good Person: 3 Ancient Writers Explain
Ancient philosophers can help us become better people. By attending to their teaching we can learn certain lessons and frameworks that will help us better navigate our very complicated world.
#plato #aristotle #cicero #philosophy
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📗 STUDY WITH ME: Learn about the Great Books Program at St. Thomas University 🇨🇦
www.stu.ca/greatbooks/
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#plato #aristotle #cicero #philosophy
Support this channel 👉 www.patreon.com/GreatBooksProf
📗 CONNECT WITH ME! I use Instagram to keep in touch with students and friends.
greatbooksprof
📗 STUDY WITH ME: Learn about the Great Books Program at St. Thomas University 🇨🇦
www.stu.ca/greatbooks/
📫 E-MAIL: Business inquiries should be directed to greatbooksprof@gmail.com
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Why ChatGPT's Fake ScarJo Voice Is So Disturbing
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Controversy surrounds OpenAI's new GPT-4o model and its talking AI assistant, Sky. Scarlett Johansson, in a statement, expressed concern that OpenAI had copied her voice without her permission. She claims that OpenAI reached out to her on multiple occasions to be the voice of their new chatbot, and Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI appeared to joke on Twitter that his new virtual assistant was mode...
How To Fight Despair: Three Women Writers Explain
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This is a video about overcoming despair, which might be the great challenge of our day. Both individually and politically it seems we are battling despair. In this video I discuss three women writers who can help us deal with despair. Their writing is inspirational and, I think, necessary. #womenwriters #despair #hope Support this channel 👉 www.patreon.com/GreatBooksProf 📗 CONNECT WITH ME! I u...
Will A TikTok Ban Save Democracy?
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U.S. Lawmakers are discussing a TikTok ban? What's the point of banning TikTok? Some say the app is a threat to democracy. But what the freedom of speech? Is the TikTok ban really just an attempt by those in power to silence dissenting voices? Or is TikTok really a threat to democracy? We'll consider all this with some help from John Milton's classic work on the freedom of speech: Areopagitica....
From Cybertrucks to TradWives: The Future Is Weird
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Support this channel 👉 www.patreon.com/GreatBooksProf Are we living in the future, and does the future suck? This is a video about technology and how technological advancement doesn't always seem to lead to social or economic progress. Our machines are more advanced than ever, but can we say, without qualification, that life is better than it was before? Progress is a tricky subject. In some wa...
The Philosophy Behind Billionaire Bunkers
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There are reports of Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO, building a $100-million-dollar-super bunker in Hawaii. Should we be concerned? Is this a sign that end of the world is coming? Are billionaires preparing for the end of civilization as we know it? We'll talk about the philosophy that underpins doomsday preparation and perhaps fear of our fellow human beings, and we'll talk about why the idea of a ...
Understand Your Family Drama with Greek Tragedy
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Why does family drama feel both so predictable and so unavoidable. I think reading Greek Tragedy can help us better understand our own Family Drama. In this video we'll talk about Sophocles' Oedipus, and Aeschylus' Oresteia in order to better understand the patterns that influence our actions and ways that we are all constrained by fate! #tragedy #drama #ancienthistory #greekmythology #family S...
Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals: Lessons in Courage
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Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals is a book about deep existential questions. In this short book of essays, diary entries, and reflections, Audre Lorde recounts her cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment. Lorde sees her illness as a confrontation with her own death. She uses her writing to think through the meaning of her work as a poet in the face of her own mortality. Support this channel ...
My Course Reading List -- Great Books
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If you want to know more about our Great Books program at St. Thomas check out this link: www.stu.ca/greatbooks/ 💡 One other thing I should mention about our program: our Great Books courses are team taught! The texts I've covered here only cover half the material we're studying this term. In the same course my colleague Dr. Rodger Wilkie has been or will be leading discussions on The Epic of ...
Foucault Explained Simply
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Foucault Explained! Michel Foucault's philosophy is difficult. It's hard to read. It's hard to understand. This video is intended to provide you with help understanding Foucault. What does Foucault mean by Power? What is "The Subject" for Foucault? We'll talk about all of this here. In a 1982 essay entitled "The Subject and Power," Foucault tried to make his whole philosophical project clear. H...
The End of Homer's Iliad: Achilles & Priam Book 24
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The End of Homer's Iliad: Achilles & Priam Book 24
Travelling to GREECE: Visiting Ancient Monuments
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Travelling to GREECE: Visiting Ancient Monuments
Your Attention Span Sucks -- Here Are 2 Solutions
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Your Attention Span Sucks Here Are 2 Solutions
Magic in Early Modern England: Literature, Politics, and Supernatural Power
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Magic in Early Modern England: Literature, Politics, and Supernatural Power
I'm Just Here To Defend the Liberal Arts
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I'm Just Here To Defend the Liberal Arts
Read These Books To Make Your Brain More Beautiful
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Read These Books To Make Your Brain More Beautiful
Beginner's Guide to Reading The Classics
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Beginner's Guide to Reading The Classics
If You Feel Like A Failure… Philosophy Can Help
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If You Feel Like A Failure… Philosophy Can Help
The Meaning of Life: Meditations on Mortality
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The Meaning of Life: Meditations on Mortality
Artificial Intelligence: Is This The Future of Education?
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Artificial Intelligence: Is This The Future of Education?
You Can't Teach Books On The Internet | Episode 1
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You Can't Teach Books On The Internet | Episode 1
The Social Contract: The Myth of Modern Democracy
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The Social Contract: The Myth of Modern Democracy
Plato's Cave Allegory: Exposing Life's Illusions
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Plato's Cave Allegory: Exposing Life's Illusions
Have You Heard of Necropolitics? -- Achille Mbembe
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Have You Heard of Necropolitics? Achille Mbembe
DO THESE 4 THINGS And Hard Books Will Make Sense
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DO THESE 4 THINGS And Hard Books Will Make Sense
This Ancient Text Explains the Meaning of Life
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This Ancient Text Explains the Meaning of Life
Doctor Faustus: What Is The Price Of Power?
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Doctor Faustus: What Is The Price Of Power?
Yes you can go through life and allow circumstances to make you a subject. But what it means to be human is to think for yourself and make yourself into a moral being.
I think this made so many of us feel very seen ❤ Just calling something by its name is so freeing!
Of course that feminist would think that human beings aren't selfish, that's her delusions speaking, and that only shows how much ignorant she is about history and how she forgets that herself adheres to an ideology that seeks the maximization of women interests with minimum effort possible like way they demanded the right to vote without actually having to go to war. And no parents don't what they do to their children because they're benevolent, they do it because they see their children as their continuation to the future and their extended bloodline and also expect them to take care of them in old age and shelter from later loneliness in their life, this without mentioning the pleasure factor of having sex that resultsin hhaving children
Enjoyed how you crystallized this
Thanks!
Are we just ignoring the elephant in the room?
I went into this fully expecting to see that the play within a play meant to work on the conscience of the king is a means of showing that the play "Hamlet" is a piece of art meant to play on the conscience of the audience, as we are equally guilty of metaphorically "killing our brother", "marrying his wife", and "usurping the throne" that rightfully belongs to our "brother's son".
Fantastic video! Thank you.
Yes, and how to compare & contrast Ari with Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, Seneca's Epistulae and Epictetus' Discourses and Enchiridion. They somehow all look the same.
And you have to listen Jorge Rivera-Herrans’s musical “Epic”. He makes sure that part makes you weep and sob your soul out.
One of the best movies about the holocaust is “ Judgment At Nuremberg “. The conclusion of the film points out that “ ordinary,even extraordinary men can be convinced to commit horrendous crimes.” That the crimes committed by the Nazi regime were not done by madmen but by ordinary citizens who supported the regime. It tells the tale of how easily people can be persuaded to do the unthinkable.
Basically science asks how, philosophy asks why
Persephone has a pitch black sense of humor.
Who is your favorite ancient writer or thinker?
Thank you for making great videos. You explain things very well. Thank you.
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it.
Soy take
Your channel deserves to be way bigger! Excellent video.
Thanks, Daniel! Working on it!
Not only is Iago evil, some queer theorists postulate that Iago is actually a closet gay, who is secretly in love with Othello and got his feelings hurt when he promoted Cassio instead of him
Great video prof! i missed your videos
Thanks, Zeff! Always nice to hear from you!
I love words, literary devices meter and rhythm. The poem is great. BUT Hebrew and Christian mythology and the Bible leave me cold. I can empathize with Satan as far as rebelling against a psychopathic jealous monarch. Mans ignorance is the source of real Evil in the world.
As other philosopher's have brought up, SHOULD happiness be the motivation?
Very helpful and motivating. Thank you
How do you define, "a good person."
Good question. How would you define a good person?
Excellent choices :)
Thanks!
Going through treatment for breast cancer right now. Read Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals years ago...and am revisiting her wisdom again as I navigate the excruciating medical labyrinth. Things that she spoke of in the 70's/80's when she wrote this are still true now-50 years later: hospital food is still unhealthy, the way that Cancer, Inc. monetizes this entire treatment process, the push for women to have reconstructive surgery or how great the prosthetics are these days...the misogyny of the system and yet there are practitioners who care deeply. I am very grateful for Audre Lorde's fierce love and focused clarity. She is a powerful voice of truth even 32 years after her passing.
Wishing you all the best with your treatment! Thanks for your comment!
How to be a domesticated human: Rewards, difficulties and what you can expect if you go wild.
Subject as in, person subject to state power.
thank you really much!
The most important part of this video comes at the end because Arendt's notion that institutionalised evil exists only in totalitarian regimes, and that it's a new kind of evil, is a delusion. As mentioned, it does indeed exist in any kind of regime, in any kind of organisation. Wall Street, Congress, the Pentagon, the world of banking, the list is endless. Examples from further back i history would include the Inquisition, the genocide of the American Indians, the people of German West Africa, the Tasmanians, etc., which were all organised by bureacrats. It should be especially obvious today, with a genocide being carried out before the eyes of the world, amidst a sea of rhetoric justifying it, and nobody except a few small groups doing anything to stop it.
the movie industry does know something because they DO WORK with the Government.
Not to mention downright psychotic. If you're not restricted by morals or ethics, that what are you willing to do to get your way? Are your lyrics really trustworthy, or are you simply singing off key to stand out in the choir?
Just found your channel and I'm impressed by the way you explained this concept. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it.
Foucault does not provide ontological explanation on Power. In my opinion, he tgought that Power appears in any social relations. It does not exist if there is no sociaty. Power is produced in socal relations
Yes. I think that’s right.
@@GreatBooksProf clear and well explained movie. I have read Foulault long time ago. It refreshed my memories.
Socrates refusing to escape to instead embrace his potential demise reminds me of a screenplay of apostle Paul refusing to follow the men who came to break him out where he asked "by whose authority do you think Rome has power?" the movie even injects many of Paul's words in Luke's testimony of him into the film dialogues, as if he's retelling them for the audience who are familiar. one notably being: "if Christ has not risen, our faith is in vain" in a sense Crito was to Plato like Luke was to Paul
I believe Hannah's banality of Evil is very Jungian - That we must embrace the shadow - or our potential for great evil masks our innate potential for infinite care and compassion... Chesed, a love that takes four and five words in other languages, and we invented one for English.
Hah 😂 your sense of humor is so refreshing
Beautiful video, thank you!
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!
Great Analysis! Thank You ! Makes more sense
Wow! The Panopticon "Correctional Facility" concept is doomed to pervert the view of DETENTION (for Convicts), because it excludes Normative Habitat design (which naturally supports the ORDERLY INDIVIDUAL BETTERMENT of God's Creation). Simply, the concept of DETENTION FOR MALEFACTORS should include the understanding that the Convicts are to be humanely treated in a Normative Habitat (away from law abiding citizen areas, where they break the laws) for the remainder of their sentence (time served). (NOTE: Each DETAINEE DESERVES THEIR OWN SPACE [small cell block house] to self-regulate. The Double Occupancy cell rooms that are common in most Incarceration Facilities are detrimental to the individual Health and Well-being of the detained/imprisoned.) So, I propose that "Open-Air Detention Centers" replace Jails and Prisons throughout the World. Each detainee deserves their own "7ft by 10ft house" (flat-bed trailer unit, including a bed, shelf area, wet bath [toilet/shower combo], and desk [w/ a keyboard for a 7inch tablet to connect to]) in an Open-Air Cell Block (3 house units on one side of a path and 3-4 units on the other side of a path surrounded by a track). Also, each detainee would be assigned a cell block tricycle (to roll around the track). The far ends (corners) of each cell block would include a Fitness Shed (w/ a weight bench, and fitness machine [treadmill]), Basketball Hoop, and Picnic Table (w/ a TV screen above). Furthermore, each "Open-Air Detention Center" would include a Guard Center, and Service Center.
Well, that's great, but perhaps you should freely think of a trade school on the side also 😅
Hello! Some of your videos are very well done! Can I repost them on China’s bilibili? I want more people to see it. The original author and website will be marked clearly! Thanks
I don’t think so. Thanks for checking.
@@GreatBooksProf ok,thanks!
Good analysis, although if one has read about Heidegger's authentic/inauthentic man, one will understand that Mdm Arendt's thesis applies not only to totalitarian regimes. Have just watched the superb German film 'Hannah Arendt'. Can only conclude that her understanding is simply too deep and detached for most people to comprehend because she does not allow her own conceit to guide her pen. And what is in fact banal is the banality of what she says. Anyone who has bothered to read Solzhenitsyn's 'Gulag Archipelago' will namely see him describe the evil of Lenin's/Stalin's vast system described in the same way. Once evil becomes institutionalised, it does not become less evil but those who carry it out are not satanic, merely ordinary people carrying out a job in a satanic society. History is full of people who have carried out evil on a vast scale, not as individual monsters but as cogs in an evil machine. More recent examples are, of course, the apparatuses of oppression instituted by all oppressive governments, from the Shah to the Ayatollahs, from the vast network of intelligence agencies in the USA to 'the only democracy in the Middle East'.
I wonder when the relationship between Gertrude and Claudius actually began… It is possible that Claudius is Hamlet's actual father and Hamlet suspects that to be the case.
I’m reading this book right now. The concept of beauty causing us to replicate it was an intellectual light bulb for sure!
I come back to this idea all the time. It’s really influenced my thinking.
Of course, Foucault has some good ideas, but as an allover thesis -- he is full of s*** -- and those who try to weaponize his philosophy, like Marxists, will also be found wanting eventually!
Why are you looking at me like that? Am I on the stand? I will not speak without my attorney present.
Socrates doesnt believe in Gods.. his new god is just one God
hahaha why do you have to move to the forest tho
Gotta go back to where it all began! 😂
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Problem is America is notoriously bad at representing public opinion. Liberal democracies tend to score lower on responsiveness measures because they utilize diffusion of responsibility and alienation to not meet peoples needs but present the front of a system to meet peoples needs