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HUM 111 The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic
The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic
Overview
In the year 509 B.C., Roman patricians overthrew the Etruscan kings and founded the Roman Republic. The new government established magistrates with limited powers and terms of office, while taking into account the claims of the Senate and the people. The Republic eventually came to an end with the rise of Julius Caesar and the establishment of the Roman Empire under Augustus Caesar.
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Introduction to Philosophy Parts 9-14
Part 9 Moral Problems
A Defense of Abortion
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Judith Jarvis Thomson
On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
Mary Anne Warren
Mary Anne Warren
Why Abortion Is Immoral
Don Marquis
Don Marquis
Virtue Theory and Abortion
Rosalind Hursthouse
Rosalind Hursthouse
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Peter Singer
Peter Singer
Part 10: Society
Democracy
John Dewey
John Dewey
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
What Is a Liberal Education?
Sidney Hook
Sidney Hook
Crito
Plato
Plato
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Part 11: Social Justice
A Theory of Justice
John Rawls
John Rawls
Distributive Justice
Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick
The Republic
Plato
Plato
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
Part 12: Art
The Republic
Plato
Plato
According to Plato, why is the work of the artist at the third remove from the essential nature of a thing?
Poetics
Aristotle
Aristotle
Do you agree with Aristotle that the first essential of tragedy is plot and characters come second?
Part 13: Life and Death
The Trolley Problem
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Can you imagine another hypothetical case akin to that of the trolley?
Phaedo
Plato
Plato
According to Socrates, how could Crito be of most service?
Writings
Epicurus
Epicurus
According to Epicurus, why is death nothing to us?
The Handbook
Epictetus
Epictetus
How does Epictetus recommend that we deal with loss?
Part 14: The Meaning of Life
Philosophy and the Meaning of Life
Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick
Does Nozick believe any formula can capture the meaning of life?
Monday, August 3, 2020
Part 8: Moral Theory
Part 8: Moral Theory
How Not to Answer Moral Questions
Tom Regan
Tom Regan
Moral Isolationism
Mary Midgley
Mary Midgley
The Nature of Ethical Disagreement
Charles L. Stevenson
Charles L. Stevenson
The Rationality of Moral Action
Philippa Foot
Philippa Foot
Kant’s Ethics
Onora O’Neill
Onora O’Neill
Assessing Utilitarianism
Lewis P. Pojman
Lewis P. Pojman
A Supreme Moral Principle?
Steven M. Cahn
Steven M. Cahn
Virtue Ethics
Bernard Mayo
Bernard Mayo
The Ethics of Care
Virginia Held
Virginia Held
Happiness and Morality
Christine Vitrano
Christine Vitrano
Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
Aristotle
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: The Categorical Imperative
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
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HUM 111 Elizabeth I to the Glorious Revolution
“From Elizabeth I to the Glorious Revolution”
Overview:
The 16th and 17th centuries witnessed a growing crisis in the English monarchy, which was not resolved until the Glorious Revolution. The appeal to natural law, especially as formulated by John Locke, as the standard by which to govern political society, along with the idea of the necessity of the separation of powers to guard against tyranny, influenced not only English politics, but later, American revolutionaries.
Saturday, July 25, 2020
Part 7: Identity and Immortality
Personal identity deals with philosophical questions that arise about ourselves by virtue of our being people (or, as lawyers and philosophers like to say, persons). This contrasts with questions about ourselves that arise by virtue of our being living things, conscious beings, material objects, or the like.
Many of these questions occur to nearly all of us now and again: What am I? When did I begin? What will happen to me when I die? Others are more abstruse. Personal identity has been discussed since the origins of Western philosophy, and most major figures have had something to say about it.
Personal identity is sometimes discussed under the protean term self. And ‘self’ does sometimes mean ‘person’. But it often means something different: some sort of immaterial subject of consciousness, for instance (as in the phrase ‘the myth of the self’). The term is often used without any clear meaning at all.
Many of these questions occur to nearly all of us now and again: What am I? When did I begin? What will happen to me when I die? Others are more abstruse. Personal identity has been discussed since the origins of Western philosophy, and most major figures have had something to say about it.
Personal identity is sometimes discussed under the protean term self. And ‘self’ does sometimes mean ‘person’. But it often means something different: some sort of immaterial subject of consciousness, for instance (as in the phrase ‘the myth of the self’). The term is often used without any clear meaning at all.
Personal Identity: Crash Course Philosophy #19, 8:32
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=trqDnLNRuSc
Today Hank is building on last week’s exploration of identity to focus on personal identity. Does it in reside in your body? Is it in the collective memories of your consciousness? There are, of course, strengths and weaknesses to both of these ideas, and that’s what we’re talking about today.
https://youtu.be/trqDnLNRuSc
1. How are they all the Doctor?
2. What is the one thing that remains constant?
3. What is our essential property?
4. Summarize some of the ideas philosophers have come up with.
5. Describe a thought experiment.
6. What did Locke contribute?
7. What problems does memory entail?
8. Does any of this really matter?
9. Do you believe you have obligations to particular people in your life?
Today Hank is building on last week’s exploration of identity to focus on personal identity. Does it in reside in your body? Is it in the collective memories of your consciousness? There are, of course, strengths and weaknesses to both of these ideas, and that’s what we’re talking about today.
https://youtu.be/trqDnLNRuSc
1. How are they all the Doctor?
2. What is the one thing that remains constant?
3. What is our essential property?
4. Summarize some of the ideas philosophers have come up with.
5. Describe a thought experiment.
6. What did Locke contribute?
7. What problems does memory entail?
8. Does any of this really matter?
9. Do you believe you have obligations to particular people in your life?
Part 7: Identity and Immortality
A Case of Identity
Brian Smart
Brian Smart
The Problem of Personal Identity
John Perry
John Perry
John R. Perry (born 1943) is Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Stanford University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside. He has made significant contributions to philosophy in the fields of logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. He is known primarily for his work on situation semantics (together with Jon Barwise), reflexivity, indexicality, personal identity, and self-knowledge.
https://youtu.be/58R0yYh_odo
What is the goal of the dialogue?
What does Miller contend?
What is the problem of the soul?
What is the memory view?
What are the two ways of thinking about the transporter works in Star Trek?
Which is correct?
In the third night what is reviewed about personal identity?
The Unimportance of Identity
Derek Parfit
Derek Parfit
Derek Parfit discussing personal identity in the documentary Brainspotting, 9:24
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uS-46k0ncIs
https://youtu.be/uS-46k0ncIs
How do we exist?
What are the four options on the checklist?
What happens after a brain transplant?
Are there one or two persons?
What happens with teletransportation?
https://youtu.be/uS-46k0ncIs
How do we exist?
What are the four options on the checklist?
What happens after a brain transplant?
Are there one or two persons?
What happens with teletransportation?
Life after Death
Terence Penelhum
Metaphysics deals with the study of the nature of reality. Since the Enlightenment, reality has been seen through the lenses of both religion and science, and frequently there has been a conflict between the views of the two. Following the horrors of the Second World War, the attacks on the views of religion became particularly vigorous with science on the offensive.
Canadian philosophers in the postwar era have attempted, in a number of ways, to resolve these conflicts and to legitimize religious belief. A variety of approaches have been used.
Terence Penelhum
Metaphysics deals with the study of the nature of reality. Since the Enlightenment, reality has been seen through the lenses of both religion and science, and frequently there has been a conflict between the views of the two. Following the horrors of the Second World War, the attacks on the views of religion became particularly vigorous with science on the offensive.
Canadian philosophers in the postwar era have attempted, in a number of ways, to resolve these conflicts and to legitimize religious belief. A variety of approaches have been used.
Some have attempted to address issues in the philosophy of religion by questioning underlying issues in metaphysics. Those following this approach within the analytic tradition include Kai Nielsen, Donald Evans (1963), and Terence Penelhum (1970).
Do We Need Immortality?
Grace M. Jantzen
Grace Marion Jantzen (24 May 1948 – 2 May 2006) was a Canadian feminist philosopher and theologian. She was professor of religion, culture and gender at Manchester University from 1996 until her death from cancer at the age of 57.
Arguably, her most famous work is Becoming Divine: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Religion. In this book, Grace Jantzen proposes a new philosophy of religion from a feminist perspective. She also authored works on Christian mysticism and the foundations of modernity. Her approach was influenced by Continental scholarship, particularly that of Foucault.
In her final publication, Foundations of Violence, Jantzen, sketches the fascination with death and violence -- what she calls a 'necrophilia' -- that she believes has characterized much of Western culture from classical antiquity through Christianity to present paradigms. In Jantzen's view, this emphasis on violence and death comes at the expense of the physical body in the present (a denigration of the senses, sexuality and sensuality), and thus, establishes a yearning for mystical worlds beyond the here and now.
Grace M. Jantzen
Grace Marion Jantzen (24 May 1948 – 2 May 2006) was a Canadian feminist philosopher and theologian. She was professor of religion, culture and gender at Manchester University from 1996 until her death from cancer at the age of 57.
Arguably, her most famous work is Becoming Divine: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Religion. In this book, Grace Jantzen proposes a new philosophy of religion from a feminist perspective. She also authored works on Christian mysticism and the foundations of modernity. Her approach was influenced by Continental scholarship, particularly that of Foucault.
In her final publication, Foundations of Violence, Jantzen, sketches the fascination with death and violence -- what she calls a 'necrophilia' -- that she believes has characterized much of Western culture from classical antiquity through Christianity to present paradigms. In Jantzen's view, this emphasis on violence and death comes at the expense of the physical body in the present (a denigration of the senses, sexuality and sensuality), and thus, establishes a yearning for mystical worlds beyond the here and now.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke
John Locke
PHILOSOPHY - History: Locke on Personal Identity #1, 11:30
PHILOSOPHY - History: Locke on Personal Identity #1, 11:30
Part 1 of 3. In this Wireless Philosophy video, Michael Della Rocca (Yale University) explores some of the puzzles and problems of personal identity that arise from the revolutionary work of the philosopher John Locke.
What makes you the same person as the little kid growing up a number of years ago?
Is the identity of a person tied to the persistence of a body or a soul or something else entirely? Can we even give any explanation at all of the persistence of a person?
A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume
David Hume
David Hume on Personal Identity -Kiana Crawford, 5:05
David Hume on Personal Identity -Kiana Crawford, 5:05
https://youtu.be/Jcnnmi_gPug
Are persons just impressions?
Hume rejects what?
What is an impression?
How does he explain impressions?
How can we construct identity?
What does Hume note?
What is causation?
How does Hume disagree with Locke?
Do you agree with Hume's view on personal identify as he had three strong arguments?
How would you recap Hume's arguments?
Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid (26 April 1710 – 7 October 1796) was a religiously trained Scottish philosopher, a contemporary of David Hume as well as "Hume's earliest and fiercest critic". He was the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense and played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment.
The early part of his life was spent in Aberdeen and he graduated from the University of Aberdeen. He began his career as a Minister of the Church of Scotland but ceased to be a Minister (or called 'Reverend') when he was given a professorship at King's College, Aberdeen in 1752.
He obtained his doctorate and wrote An Inquiry Into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (published in 1764). He and his colleagues founded the 'Aberdeen Philosophical Society' which was popularly known as the 'Wise Club' (a literary-philosophical association). Shortly after the publication of his first book, he was given the prestigious Professorship of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow when he was called to replace Adam Smith.
He resigned from this position in 1781, after which he prepared his university lectures for publication in two books: Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785) and Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind (1788). Reid was buried at Blackfriars Church in the grounds of Glasgow College and when the university moved to Gilmorehill in the west of Glasgow, his tombstone was inserted in the main building.
Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of sensus communis) is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry. He disagreed with Hume, who asserted that we can never know what an external world consists of as our knowledge is limited to the ideas in the mind, and George Berkeley, who asserted that the external world is merely ideas in the mind. By contrast, Reid claimed that the foundations upon which our sensus communis are built justify our belief that there is an external world.
In his day and for some years into the 19th century, he was regarded as more important than Hume. He advocated direct realism, or common sense realism, and argued strongly against the Theory of Ideas advocated by John Locke, René Descartes, and (in varying forms) nearly all Early Modern philosophers who came after them. He had a great admiration for Hume and had a mutual friend send Hume an early manuscript of Reid's Inquiry. Hume responded that the "deeply philosophical" work "is wrote in a lively and entertaining matter," but that "there seems to be some defect in method," and criticized Reid for implying the presence of innate ideas.
Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid (26 April 1710 – 7 October 1796) was a religiously trained Scottish philosopher, a contemporary of David Hume as well as "Hume's earliest and fiercest critic". He was the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense and played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment.
The early part of his life was spent in Aberdeen and he graduated from the University of Aberdeen. He began his career as a Minister of the Church of Scotland but ceased to be a Minister (or called 'Reverend') when he was given a professorship at King's College, Aberdeen in 1752.
He obtained his doctorate and wrote An Inquiry Into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (published in 1764). He and his colleagues founded the 'Aberdeen Philosophical Society' which was popularly known as the 'Wise Club' (a literary-philosophical association). Shortly after the publication of his first book, he was given the prestigious Professorship of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow when he was called to replace Adam Smith.
He resigned from this position in 1781, after which he prepared his university lectures for publication in two books: Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785) and Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind (1788). Reid was buried at Blackfriars Church in the grounds of Glasgow College and when the university moved to Gilmorehill in the west of Glasgow, his tombstone was inserted in the main building.
Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of sensus communis) is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry. He disagreed with Hume, who asserted that we can never know what an external world consists of as our knowledge is limited to the ideas in the mind, and George Berkeley, who asserted that the external world is merely ideas in the mind. By contrast, Reid claimed that the foundations upon which our sensus communis are built justify our belief that there is an external world.
In his day and for some years into the 19th century, he was regarded as more important than Hume. He advocated direct realism, or common sense realism, and argued strongly against the Theory of Ideas advocated by John Locke, René Descartes, and (in varying forms) nearly all Early Modern philosophers who came after them. He had a great admiration for Hume and had a mutual friend send Hume an early manuscript of Reid's Inquiry. Hume responded that the "deeply philosophical" work "is wrote in a lively and entertaining matter," but that "there seems to be some defect in method," and criticized Reid for implying the presence of innate ideas.
5.2. INTROPHIL - Reid's Challenge to Hume, 2:13
Week five of the University of Edinburgh's "Introduction to Philosophy" (INTROPHIL) open online course. Dr Allan Hazlett School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences University of Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/GSDMIXAg3Zc
When should you only trust testimony according to Hume?
How does Reid challenge Hume's assumption?
How do Reid and Hume agree?
What is innate according to Reid?
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Ian Hunter, Noddy Holder on Mott The Hoople
Rock legends with Noddy Holder on MTH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtQe7BD ... e=youtu.be
after MTH live in paris is an old programme by Noddy Holder on MTH
after MTH live in paris is an old programme by Noddy Holder on MTH
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HUM 111-112 Renaissance, Reformation, & Counter-Reformation
Overview:
The Renaissance represents a discovery and rebirth of the glories of antiquity, as well as the dawn of the modern world. The great universities of Paris, Bologna, and Oxford were products of the Middle Ages, and had initiated the study of Aristotle and other ancient thinkers in relation the tenets of Christianity. The rise of humanism during the Renaissance represented a challenge to the scholastic thought of the Middle Ages: it was a strain of humanism which resulted in the Protestant Reformation. The Catholic Church responded by convening the Council of Trent, which initiated the Counter-Reformation.
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
HUM 111: Church and State
Overview:
In the wake of the disintegration of the Roman Empire and the corresponding collapse of political cohesion throughout Western Europe in the fifth century, there arose numerous small kingdoms whose rulers came to rely on bishops and other leaders of the Church to help provide regional administrative order. The growth of royal power and the close interactions of Church and state officials gave rise to two fundamental political issues of the Middle Ages, which remain relevant even today: what constitutes the appropriate relationship between secular and spiritual authority, and what is the proper relationship between government and the governed.
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
HUM 112: Impressionism or Why is Modern Art So Bad?
Why is Modern Art so Bad? 5:49
For two millennia, great artists set the standard for beauty. Now those standards are gone. Modern art is a competition between the ugly and the twisted; the most shocking wins. What happened? How did the beautiful come to be reviled and bad taste come to be celebrated? Renowned artist Robert Florczak explains the history and the mystery behind this change and how it can be stopped and even reversed.
https://youtu.be/lNI07egoefc
Monday, July 13, 2020
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