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Күні қосылды 2020 ж. 19 Нау.
Books and ideas! Deepen your understanding of Philosophy, Literature, Politics, Ethics, Art & Culture. If your'e a student you might find these videos useful as study guides. Teachers and professors should feel free to use them as resources in their own courses.
I'm an Associate Professor of Great Books at St. Thomas University. My research focuses primarily on Shakespeare and early modern political thought.
I'm also the author of Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes: Dead Body Politics. (Link below)
I'm an Associate Professor of Great Books at St. Thomas University. My research focuses primarily on Shakespeare and early modern political thought.
I'm also the author of Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes: Dead Body Politics. (Link below)
Can You Ever Really Know Another Person?
Poets and philosophers have long recognized that we are -- in some ultimate sense -- mysterious to each other. Can you ever really know another person? What about your family members, your best friends, the people you love the most? Have you ever felt betrayed, tricked, or even just misunderstood by others? How do we explain this bizarre human phenomenon? Why is it so hard to get to know people? And, if we cannot really, fully know one another, how do we trust each other?
This was, not incidentally, one of Shakespeare's great questions -- the central theme to most of his major dramatic works. It's also a fundamental human question that we all must eventually confront.
But here's the thing...
This was, not incidentally, one of Shakespeare's great questions -- the central theme to most of his major dramatic works. It's also a fundamental human question that we all must eventually confront.
But here's the thing...
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Great Books Where to Begin Reading
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What to Read Next | Book Recommendations
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What Are the Liberal Arts?
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John Milton's epic Paradise Lost is a poetic exploration of equality and feminism. The focus of this exploration is Eve. Milton's Eve is one of the most enigmatic and controversial characters in all of literature. At times Paradise Lost seems to be awash in sexism: Eve is praised for her submissiveness and her obedience to Adam. At other times, if we read carefully, we see signs that Eve is a f...
Machiavelli - THE PRINCE | Great Books Prof Podcast
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Machiavelli's The Prince is one of the most important works of political theory every written. But is it also a work of pure evil? Machiavelli has developed a reputation as a teacher of evil because what Machiavelli says in the prince is striking: he is an apologist for tyrants and advises treachery and betrayal when advantageous. However, a careful reading of Machiavelli's The Prince reveals t...
Machiavelli The Prince: Love or Fear?
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Why Study The Liberal Arts? #shorts #liberalarts
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Why study the liberal arts? What are the liberal arts? Why do the liberal arts matter? Let me explain in 55 seconds.
The Secret to Self Knowledge
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How to gain self knowledge is perhaps the great challenge of all our lives! Most people at some point in their lives want to know how to acquire self knowledge. We ask questions like "Who am I?" or "What is my purpose?" It is a great mystery why we are puzzles to ourselves, why it is so hard for us to know ourselves? How do I understand myself? Shouldn't I understand myself automatically? Why d...
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Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST: An Introduction
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Machiavelli The Prince: Love or Fear?
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Good video. You have an interesting way of presenting your ideas.
Thanks!
This video has helped me so much with my project, this made it easier to understand and made me 100% Thank you so much!!
That’s great to hear! Glad you found it helpful. Good luck with your studies!
This channel is so underrated... I love watching your videos <3 Keep it up!
Hi Ana! That’s so nice to hear. I’m glad you enjoy them. Thanks for watching!
You are totally wrong. Demonising others will not excuse you from being evil. You have to accept that ordinary people, living ordinary lives can produce evil results. I’ve seen so many of these, I’m a good person, we’re good people, we could never do that kind of thing, videos. All the evil committed in the world was done by good people.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
You’re welcome! You’re welcome! You’re welcome!
References to Multiverse and Cosmic creation are found in Puranas of Hindus as well, which are around 5000 years old. It’s really mind boggling.
That’s fascinating ! Thank you!
Man, Foucault is hard to understand.
Agree 100%
Awesome video! but.. feedback is weak, few comments.. As for me, you need a target audience. Without help, it will take a long time, but you can try g e t 4 v i e w s OR maybe u t i f y for real views!
Please post more videos about - Aristotle Rhetoric
Excellent video!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
Hey Prof! I haven't commented before (I always seem to be on the wrong account). I've been going through the Great Books on my own and find your videos helpful and, importantly, for me, clear. I'm an educator myself, and love your approach. I show some of your videos to my students (I teach Grades 11-13) when the themes or books come up in discussions. This video though, I love love love this video :) I haven't heard of this book before this vid and I've just placed it in my reading list. Wanted to tell you I appreciate your channel, and look forward to each new video :)
@Great Books Prof @Great Books Prof Indeed they do (find them helpful)! Some have gone on to pick up some of the books as well. That's always a win in my books (haha) in a world seemingly obsessed with STEM! The older students especially like your political philosophy playlist, possibly because of its immediate relevance to our world. Thanks for doing what you do! :)
Hi Rinny! What a kind and generous comment! Thank you so much! I’m flattered you share the videos with your students. I hope they find them helpful. I’m glad you liked this one. The middle part of Cavendish’s book can be kind of a slog but the beginning and the ending are so interesting in terms of the history of science and early modern gender politics. Thanks for watching!
Great video as always! I would just like to give my two cents. 1. Maybe change your tag to great prof of books :) As a fellow lecturer, of business and economics however, I tip my hat to your style. 2. One similar approach is found with a great book named El Aleph from Borges in 1945. 3. I feel your pain, I went through the same rabbit hole during the pandemic. It however led me to an outstanding and for me life changing book, Chaos from James Glieck. 4. From a scientific perspective, the way I understand it, is that multiverse theory is an interpretation or continuation of an interpretation of an empirical findng in quantum mechanichs (copenhagen interpretation). Neither has been proven. 5. I love that this video is, as I see it non-linear!! 6. In the life of the mind, Hannah Arendt states the world has forgotten about metaphysics, but perhaps we should embrace this again as a mental exercise. I wish that this could be true so that in conjunction with other factors, hopefully we can finally have intellectual powerhouses again. The recent argumentations pertaining to the war in Ukraine for example of Chomsky, but also of some Germa "intellectuals" are so cringy, I wish I would live in another less ignorant planet. Thanks for your videos and have a great weekend.
@Great Books Prof thanks for your response! Personally I have tons of reasons to be attracted to science. I think quantum mechanics in particular is so strange it sparks our imagination. This leads to several "stories" some of which are just plain profiteering like what I consider the dark side of book authors such as Deepak Chopra who affirms his readers aging is a choice and uses QM to "support" his claims. The harsh reality is we don't know tons of things about the universe. I mean, we have a very rudimentary knowledge of our own brain. As I see it, we are still much closer to philosophy than pure knowledge, if that is even attainable. I think von Neumann explains it best in a quote, "If people do not believe that mathematics [models] is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is." One of my macro econ lecturers gave us a list of novels to read, for example The Bonfire of the Vanities and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court as complements to understanding the topic. I guess these should provide meaning without commiting the mistake of defining things. Have a great weekend and looking forward to your next video.
Javier! Nice to hear from you again. Thanks for the book recommendations. Yes, that was my sense of the science too, though I’m very much out of my element. A couple of times I read people saying that the existence of the multiverse would explain a number of other unanswered problems in theoretical physics, but there isn’t really much solid evidence for its existence. At least as far as I understand. Along the way I got interested in the Multiverse story. Why are we so drawn to this idea and these stories? I also find it very interesting how close physics gets to philosophy once the questions get big enough.
More nuence and more robust account of nature
Love game appears to absurd
Shakespeare motivea are not wholy correct
Confuse unatural with natural order
Overestimation of narure
Reductive account of nature
Unnatural
Non neogoitable and some are f
Laws of physics is stricter
How free exactly should be
Rules are flexible
Sudden blirryness while describing nature
What limitations this nature puts on us
What is natural human
cool video! thank you.
Gaia was the garden...and Eve is in Divine Witness Protection
Maybe some oppression might be productive
Yes l w ould be flexible for a lesson
You have the Machiavellian touch
That might be a bad thing! 😂 Thanks, Willow!
That was great. I've just started to read the book and it really helped my desire to finish it. Thanks
Wonderful! It can be a challenging book to get through. Happy to hear you enjoyed the video. Thank you!
Seems like _Power_ is being postulated through a lens of energy relationship. As in, kinetic vs potential and the steamroller affect of Power when executed kinetically?
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I’ve taught this book several times. I’ve always taught the divine right of kings interpretation, not as what Shakespeare believed, but rather a philosophical interrogation of that philosophy… with witches.
@Great Books Prof Shakespeare loved to turn the sacred cows of the day into hamburger, didn't he? And yet he does so in a way that always has plausible deniability and a wink and a nod.
I think that’s basically my read on it too. Kind of a ballsy play that way because King James was a big believer in Divine Right.
surprise! CCP and Putin is back and rivals to the western liberal democracy model has revived, not only in political systems, but in military, economic, technology arenas. History is not dead!
Thank you so much for this video. I am brazillian and was abble to understand everythind you said, your diccion is relly refined but easy to understand. Your videos helps me a lot in my University works, so Thanks, keep going
Hi Sarah, You're very welcome! Thank you very much for the comment. I'm glad you found the videos helpful. Good luck with your school work!
Thanks for sharing! We always focus on the ‘Bard’ and not the man.
Yes. Partly because we know so little about him relatively speaking. One of the most studied people in history and much of his life remains mysterious.
awesome channel
Thank you!
How about an system where an Artificial Intelligence is in power
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I prefer fear
You and Machiavelli both!
Love this!🥰 thank you
You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it!
Authorities are servants; If they do our bidding then we’re pleased. Good Authority, good boy, do your job. Thanks
People want so called “authorities” to do there bidding not tell them what to do. Public authorities and their bureaucrats are “servants.” Unfortunately haha… forgotten. Just a thought. Thanks
If you have to ask whether it's the greatest American novel of the 20th century, it's probably not, at least for you.
Thank so much for this, it's really insightful
You’re very welcome. It’s a challenging but rewarding endeavour, I think.