History of Philosophy Audio Archive

Herbert Marcuse was one of the leading intellectuals of the 1960s, and did more than perhaps any other philosopher to shape the intellectual foundations of the counterculture. In this episode, I inclu...

26 Jun 20241h 26min

Presentation by Robert C. Solomon Existentialism began not in philosophy but primarily in literature - Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground and Kafka's Metamorphosis along with Hesse's Steppenwolf ...

25 Jun 202430min

Julian Assange is one of the few heroes to have lived and worked in my lifetime. It is clear that he will never receive a fair trial, never exercise his right to face his accusers, or be treated human...

25 Jun 202435min

I've committed a grave sin - coining a new term - and that terms is soterioactive. The soterioactive is all forms of human activity that serve primarily and expediently to liberate, deliver, or emanci...

25 Jun 202437min

"Anomie" is a term from the foundational French sociologist Emile Durkheim. It refers to the rage and chaos created in individuals and the networks they interact with when social disconnection and per...

23 Jun 202450min

Hey everybody - this is a personal episode, I saw that there are a few people listening now and I wanted to say a few things about what I have learned studying philosophy and talk about a few of the m...

22 Jun 202439min

In 1965, James Baldwin debated William F. Buckley on the following topic: "Has the American Dream been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro?" Baldwin argued first in the Affirmative, followed...

19 Jun 202441min

ATHENA: Nothing that strikes a note of brutal conquest. Only peace- blessings, rising up from the earth and the heaving sea, and down the vaulting sky let the wind-gods breathe a wash of sunlight stre...

16 Jun 20245h 19min