Judith Herman - Psychological Trauma, Childhood Influences, and Recovery
Judith Herman wrote an incredible book called "Trauma and Recovery" which I would wholeheartedly recommend to everyone. Advisory: Discusses incest, sexual assault, and PTSD. --- The original video can...
1 Jun 202453min
Jonathan Lear - Virtue Ethics, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Psychotherapy
In this talk, Jonathan Lear reviews one of my favorite philosophers, the British virtue ethicist and founder of the Neoareatic movement Alasdair MacIntyre, whose 2016 book Ethics In the Conflicts of M...
31 Mai 20241h 26min
Martha Nussbaum - Upheavals of Thought: Neo-Stoicism and Emotional Cognition
On March 22, 2005, Martha Nussbaum visited the John Adams Institute to talk about Upheavals of Thought - The Intelligence of Emotions. For everybody who thinks that philosophy is a stuffy dull scienc...
31 Mai 202437min
Deborah Nelson - Ethics Without Empathy: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil
This talk describes the ethics and aesthetics of unsentimentality as practiced by some of the late twentieth-century’s most notable women artists and intellectuals. We will consider what it would mean...
31 Mai 202430min
Chris Hedges - Fascism in the Age of Trump
Chris Hedges explores the cultural, economic, and political forms of fascism that are dredged up by the political phenomenon of Donald Trump's presidency. Advisory: This presentation is graphic, and c...
30 Mai 202448min
John Searle - Consciousness as a Problem in Philosophy and Neurobiology [Reupload]
In this 2014 lecture, famed philosopher of mind John Searle, originator of the "Chinese Room" critique of machine intelligence discusses competing theories that attempt to explain the emergence from/r...
29 Mai 202449min
Michael Parenti - The Nature of Empire [Reupload]
Ladies and Gentlemen, comrades and compadres, narcs and Feds I proudly present: the only Michael Parenti lecture in existence with good quality audio. The gentlemen requires no introduction, but the b...
28 Mai 20241h 8min
Noam Chomksy - Thought Control In A Democratic Society
“Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs that may be severe, even in a society that lacks such means of control...
27 Mai 20241h 1min
