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"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire."
-Slavoj Zizek
A video of a Zizek lecture on "What it means to be a revolutionary today"
Primary Source: First As Tragedy, Then as Farce by Slavoj Zizek
Secondary Source: Zizek: A (Very) Critical Introduction by Marcus Pound
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"Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof."
-Gottfried Leibniz
Yet another BBC video, Anthony Quinton talks about Spinoza and Leibniz:
Primary Source: Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Secondary Source: Leibniz (The Routledge Philosophers) by Nicholas Jolley
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
A short video on Schopenhauer's work The World as Will and Idea: Part I
Primary Source: Translated by one of my college professors, Richard Aquila
Secondary Source: Schopenhauer: A Biography, by David E. Cartwright
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"Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other."
-Paul Ricoeur
Professor Anthony Thistleton introduces the works on Paul Ricoeur and their importance in the academic world.
Primary Source: Memory, History, Forgetting by Paul Ricoeur
Secondary Source: Paul Ricoeur (Routledge Critical Thinkers) by Karl Simms
"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not."
-William James
This isn't exactly a video on William James, but does examine briefly the importance of American Pragmatism, of which James was a key thinker.
Primary Source: Pragmatism by William James
Secondary Source: William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism by Robert D. Richardson
Production Description (Amazon.com):
This thoughtful new abridgment is enriched by the brilliant commentary which accompanies it. In it, Laurence Dickey argues that the "Wealth of Nations" contains - and conceals - a great deal of how Smith actually thought a commercial society works. Guided by his conviction that the so-called 'Adam Smith Problem' - the relationship between ethics and economics in Smith's thinking - is a core element in the argument of the work itself, Dickey's commentary focuses on the devices Smith uses to ground his economics in broadly ethical and social categories. This is an unparalleled guide to an often difficult and perplexing work.
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"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."
-Francis Bacon
Not many good videos on Francis Bacon exist on youtube, so I thought I would share this video about the lead up to the Copernican revolution and the Renaissance, the time period in which Francis Bacon developed his philosophy and scientific theories.
Primary Source: Oxford World Classics' Francis Bacon: The Major Works
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
-Benjamin Franklin
This video lists a long collection of Benjamin Franklin's wise addages:
Suggested reading on Benjamin Franklin:
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Description:
(1771-1790) - Published Posthumously, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, includes Franklin's Thirteen Virtues (Section Thirty Seven) and a guide to how he uses his "little Book" of Virtues on a daily and weekly basis--Franklin's "Day Planner" (Section Thirty Eight and Thirty Nine).
By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.
-Johann Gottlieb Fichte
And as always, a little video. Fichte on Man's Destiny:
Book suggestion: Fichte: Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation
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"Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life."
-Pythagoras
3 Minute Philosophy on Pythagoras gives a humorous, but yet very informative, video on Pythagoras and his contribution to Philosophy and Math:
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I just stumbled upon this video on Youtube. The author analyzes Shakespeare's Henry V with some postmodern themes.
You all should check it out.
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Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
-Louis Althusser
Here's a video on Althusser:
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Embryonic stem cells used for the first time in patient: See Dan Vergano's article at USA Today
Here's a little video on stem cell research:
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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."
-Aristotle
Here's a lecture on Aristotle's politics from Yale University:
"Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes."
-Jacques Derrida
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
