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Open College Podcast and other audio

My podcast series published by Possibly Correct Productions, Toronto. Topics: Free Speech: Why the Philosophy Matters. Violent Politics: The Lesson of Marxism. Conservatives Are Not Free-Market Capitalists. Nietzsche’s Sister and The Will to Power. Your Sex Life under Socialism. Postmoderns and Marxists: Lovers or Enemies? And more. Via: YouTube, iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Twitter feed. Sign […]

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Conclusion: Nazi and Anti-Nazi Philosophies [N&N audiobook]

Part 8 of the audiobook version of my Nietzsche and the Nazis: A Personal View. Part 8. Nazi and Anti-Nazi Philosophies [mp3] [YouTube] [7  minutes] 40. Hindsight and future resolve [mp3] [YouTube] 41. Principled anti-Nazism [mp3] [YouTube] Previous: Part 1. Introduction: Philosophy and History [mp3] [YouTube] Part 2. Explaining Nazism Philosophically [mp3] [YouTube] Part 3.

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National Socialist Philosophy [N&N audiobook]

Part 3 of the audiobook version of my Nietzsche and the Nazis: A Personal View. Part 3. National Socialist Philosophy [mp3] [YouTube] [19 minutes] 6. The Nazi Party Program [mp3] [YouTube] 7. Collectivism, not individualism [mp3] [YouTube] 8. Economic socialism, not capitalism [mp3] [YouTube] 9. Nationalism, not internationalism or cosmopolitanism [mp3] [YouTube] 10. Authoritarianism, not

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Explaining Nazism Philosophically [N&N audiobook]

Part 2 of the audiobook version of my Nietzsche and the Nazis: A Personal View. Part 2. Explaining Nazism Philosophically [mp3] [YouTube] [17 minutes] 3. How could Nazism happen? [mp3] [YouTube] 4. Five weak explanations for National Socialism [mp3] [YouTube] 5. Explaining Nazism Philosophically [mp3] [YouTube] Forthcoming: Part 3. National Socialist Philosophy Part 4. The

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Introduction: Philosophy and History [N&N audiobook]

Part 1 of the audiobook version of my Nietzsche and the Nazis: A Personal View. Part 1. Introduction: Philosophy and History [mp3] [YouTube] [5 minutes] 1. Fascinated by history [mp3] [YouTube] 2.What is philosophy of history? [mp3] [YouTube] Forthcoming: Part 2. Explaining Nazism Philosophically Part 3. National Socialist Philosophy Part 4. The Nazis in Power

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August Landmesser, Heinrich Himmler, Michael Karkoc, and Alfred Rosenberg

A busy week for Nazi-related news items: * A profile of August Landmesser, the man who famously crossed his arms and refused to salute Hitler, and how the Nazi regime destroyed him and his family. * A short, blunt, and horrifying speech given by Himmler to a group of SS officers: “I am talking about

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Postmodern Strategy [Explaining Postmodernism audiobook]

This is the sixth and final chapter of the audiobook version of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Chapter Six: Postmodern Strategy [mp3] [YouTube] [54 minutes total] Connecting epistemology to politics [mp3] [YouTube] Masks and rhetoric in language [mp3] [YouTube] When theory clashes with fact [mp3] [YouTube] Kierkegaardian postmodernism [mp3] [YouTube] Reversing

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The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason [EP audiobook]

This is the second chapter of the audiobook version of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Chapter Two: The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason [mp3] [YouTube] [72 minutes] Enlightenment reason, liberalism, and science [mp3] [YouTube] The beginnings of the Counter-Enlightenment [mp3] [YouTube] Kant’s skeptical conclusion [mp3] [YouTube] Kant’s problematic from empiricism and rationalism

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Texts in Philosophy

Alphabetical by Author or Topic Thomas Aquinas, “Whether it is lawful to kill sinners?” and “Whether heretics ought to be tolerated?” From Summa Theologica (1265-1274). “Arachne and Athena.” Hannah Arendt, “The Crisis in Education” (1954). Aristotle, Books 1-4 of Nicomachean Ethics (c. 335 BCE). Poetics (after 335 BCE). Excerpts from Book 7 of Politics (350 BCE). Augustine,

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