History of Philosophy

Encroaching Darkness series: With James Lindsay and Stephen Hicks

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My paired conversations in the Encroaching Darkness series, “The Seeds of Collectivism” and “Encroaching Darkness.” Hosted by Michael O’Fallon and featuring James Lindsay and me in conversation. Description: When you listen to the moral language and rhetoric of our culture today, you less often hear appeals to “personal responsibility” and “rugged individualism” — and more […]

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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, *The Communist Manifesto* [Atlas University course]

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This week in the A.U. course on Socialism we cover Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s Manifesto of the Communist Party. Marx, who devised the ideology of communism, proclaims the inevitable self-destruction of capitalism due to its internal contradictions and urges communists to lead the world to a classless society. The full course: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/socialism. Other Waterfall

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Lacan’s anti-humanism and Derrida’s intellectual terrorism

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Professor Fletcher on Lacan’s anti-humanism: “What you’re doing is like a spider: you’re making a very delicate web without any human reality in it … All this metaphysics is not necessary. The diagram was very interesting, but it doesn’t seem to have any connection with the reality of our actions, with eating, sexual intercourse, and

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Professor Long’s course on Nietzsche and Modern Literature

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For those interested in Friedrich Nietzsche and his connections to Thomas Mann, André Gide, D. H. Lawrence, Ayn Rand: Auburn University professor Roderick Long’s course on Nietzsche and Modern Literature is online with a treasure trove of readings, pictures, and musical clips. Related: My table with sources on Nietzsche and Rand: 124 Similarities and Differences.

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Derrida, according to Searle and Foucault

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John Searle reports this conversation with Michel Foucault about deconstructionist Jacques Derrida:  ‘You can hardly misread him, because he’s so obscure. Every time you say, “He says so and so,” he always says, “You misunderstood me.” But if you try to figure out the correct interpretation, then that’s not so easy. I once said this

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St. Augustine against anatomy and science

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Following up on two posts on the achievements of modern anatomy (“The Knife Man” and “Anatomy and Philosophy”), here is St. Augustine (354-430) disapproving of the practice: “With a cruel zeal for science, some medical men, who are called anatomists, have dissected the bodies of the dead, and sometimes even of sick persons who have

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