Professor Castleberry gives an online lecture of Hume’s critique of reason’s role in human morality.
Read moreYou look beautiful! But is that an objective thing, or a subjective thing? Maybe Kant and Hume can help us find out… Aesthetics Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvoAL-KSZ32d-ywRVwELJOl61bKwjzw6h Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PhilosophyTube?ref=hl Twitter: @PhilosopyTube Email: ollysphilosophychannel@gmail.com Hume “On the Standard of Taste” http://www.bartleby.com/27/15.html The Philosophy Tube theme is “Show Your Moves” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) The Comment music is “Pamgea” […]
Read moreIn this lecture/discussion section from my Fall 2013 Introduction to Philosophy class at Marist College, we explore some of the correspondence between Rene Descartes and Princess Elisabeth. In particular, we look at their back and forth discussion about the nature of the soul or the mind, and about how the mind is united with the […]
Read moreIn this lecture/discussion session from my Fall 2013 Introduction to Philosophy class at Marist College, we begin our study of Rene Descartes’ late work, The Passions of the Soul, focusing on the first part of the work. In that part, Descartes discusses how the mind/soul and the body interact, specifically through the brain. We examine […]
Read moreIn this video we talk about certain criticisms of Descartes ‘I think, therefore I am’ (Evil Demon) Theory. If you enjoyed the video then please like and subscribe, feedback is also much appreciated. Music – Celtic Impulse by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Read moreThis is a video in my new Core Concepts series — designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker. This Core Concept video focuses on Plato’s dialogue, the Ion, and it discusses Socrates’ theory about Poetry expressed there, namely that the […]
Read moreSophist (Ancient Greek: Σοφιστής) discusses being and not-being while drawing a distinction between the philosopher and the sophist.- Summary by Geoffrey Edwards. Sophist by Plato, Audiobook, Greek Philosophy Audio,
Read moreTheaetetus (Ancient Greek: Θεαίτητος) discusses concepts including perception, true judgment and knowledge. Socrates compares the human mind to a piece of wax and is critical of lawyers who seek only to persuade. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards). Theaetetus by Plato, Audiobook Audio, Philosophy of Law, Lawyer, Perception, Greek, the Republic, Philosophy of Justice, Ancient Greece, Philosopher.
Read moreIn this class session from my Fall 2013 Introduction to Philosophy class at Marist College, we start our study of Plato’s master-work, the Symposium. We get as far into it as the first two speeches on Love, by Phaedrus and Pausanius. Prior to that, we examine the meaning of “symposium”, discuss how the characters got […]
Read moreThis is one of more accessible works of Plato and dramatized as well. The Symposium, Philosophy Audiobook by Plato, Classic Greek Philospher
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