In this course, Strauss covers the thought of Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Burke, as well as the philosopher of science Ernest Nagel.
Lecture 1: 00:00
Lecture 2: 01:22:56
Lecture 3: 03:01:49
Lecture 4: 05:01:28
Lecture 5-8: https://youtu.be/8L4i1rIfjIk
Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss: https://amzn.to/2wQcFvX
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ISg5Wzv94
In 1953, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of the drug Mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything was transformed. He describes his experience in The Doors of Perception and its sequel Heaven and Hell.
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell: https://amzn.to/2CMMuLj
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84KWq5PjMtA
Robert Booth Fowler, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, UW-Madison, channels Thomas Carlyle. Fowler discusses Carlyle’s 19th Century philosophy of truth. Fowler, as Carlyle, discusses the qualities that a hero must embrace.
"Perhaps we, as a civilization and a species, are undergoing a rite of passage of the most epochal and profound kind, acted out on the stage of history with, as it were, the cosmos itself as the tribal matrix of the initiatory drama. What seems to be unfolding is not only a recovery of the soul of the world, the anima mundi, but a new relationship to it. Something new is being forged."
— Richard Tarnas speaking at the 2012: Tipping Point Prophets Conference in Vancouver
http://www.greatmystery.org/nl/vancouver2012richard.html
The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View by Richard Tarnas: https://amzn.to/2LuNmER
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View by Richard Tarnas: https://amzn.to/2PLh7F5
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lqv78W13Fo
The Rediscovery of Meaning, and Other Essays: https://amzn.to/2XEje13
Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning: https://amzn.to/2C4umet
A Barfield Reader: Selections from the Writings of Owen Barfield: https://amzn.to/2ThmdOr
Owen Barfield: Philosophy, Poetry, and Theology: https://amzn.to/2SKsz3M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwWiFftstSw
With growing interest in the role of the body in perception, and in the related question of the possibility and nature of non-conceptual content, Merleau-Ponty’s classic work, Phenomenology of Perception, has become increasingly relevant. We will read the book in order to understand and evaluate Merleau-Ponty’s arguments against what he calls empiricism (a sort of behaviorism) and intellectualism (cognitivism), as well as his positive account of what he calls motor intentionality — a kind of intentionality without conceptual content that, Merleau-Ponty argues, is the basic way human beings are embedded in the world.
Lecture 1-9: https://youtu.be/U-ZQoMh32Ck
Lecture 10: 00:00
Lecture 11: 01:18:27
Lecture 12: 02:37:14
Lecture 13: 03:54:27
Lecture 14: 05:13:28
Lecture 15: 06:34:47
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpKlv4NqOI