Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski muses on the subject of how philosophy texts become "important" to the canon, the rise and fall of the Roman Empire - as a subject of philosophical study, and also (when forced) wh...

8 Syys 20211h 41min

Professor Kozlowski crosses the Rubicon to discuss the rise of the Roman Empire, its widespread (and politically-motivated?) embrace of stoicism, and how that informs Roman attitudes on hero-worship a...

7 Syys 20211h 43min

Professor Kozlowski ventures into Eastern Philosophy to discuss alternative attitudes toward love and friendship, as well as draw comparisons and contrasts to Western traditions like stoicism. It's h...

7 Syys 20211h 53min

Professor Kozlowski wanders through the series of questions asked and answered by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics IX. Along the way, he'll discuss the self-destructiveness of viciousness, the relatio...

1 Syys 20211h 38min

Professor Kozlowski turns his attention from eros to philia in his discussion of Book VIII of the Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle. In this lecture he discusses Aristotle's overall project in Ethics, ...

1 Syys 20211h 39min

Professor Kozlowski completes his encomium of Plato's Symposium by discussing the lives of Socrates and Alcibiades: how their love affair may have endangered the whole of Athenian civilization, and ho...

30 Elo 20211h 45min

Professor Kozlowski begins his encomium of the Symposium by discussing Greek cultural assumptions and how they relate and manifest in the first four speeches: Phaedrus' virtuous love, Pausanias' passi...

30 Elo 20211h 45min

Time to discuss one of the earliest perspectives on love in the history of Western Civilization: the love between God and His people in the Old Testament. Follow along with Professor Kozlowski as he ...

28 Elo 20211h 43min