Professor Kozlowski Lectures

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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 20211h 43min

Taking on another overly-ambitious project, Professor Kozlowski attempts to discuss Foucault's early steps in his History of Sexuality, discussing his challenge to the traditional understanding of how...

28 Aug 20211h 47min

Professor Kozlowski dives into the deep end of the ocean and gets thoroughly drowned in his early attempts to define love. Hopefully not without first learning a few things - in true Socratic fashion...

27 Aug 20211h 41min