History of Philosophy Audio Archive

We did it - 100 episodes! Celebrate with 12 hours of Plato! My Patreon page: https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon (00:00:00) - Intro (00:00:51) - The Domain of the Dialogues (01:31:20) - The Examined Life (02:16:42) - Tragedy in the Philosophic Age of the Greeks (03:00:16) - Republic I (03:46:46) - Republic II (04:30:45) - Republic III (05:16:40) - The Laws and Cephalus (06:01:33) - Protagoras: The Many and the One (06:46:51) - Gorgias: The Temptation to Speak (07:32:24) - Parmenides: The Most True (08:07:10) - Sophist and Statesman (09:01:35) - Phaedrus: Hymn to Love (09:46:23) - Symposium: Pride of Love (10:33:03) - Platonic Achievement (11:17:59) - Living Voice Enjoy! -//-

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon World-renowned professor of linguistics and lifelong political dissident Noam Chomsky addressed The New School in September 2015 about the threats facing the civilized world as we neared the third decade of the 21st century. His predictions and analyses are more prescient now than they were even then. Enjoy. -//- Original video (The New School): https://youtu.be/w_X5czMVKT8?si=AiN_Vbu1hgJ_HRAn&t=433

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon In order to do philosophy at all we have to find ways to discuss difficult topics in a way that allows other people to approach and understand us. Conversation is an infinite game - how can we establish ground rules for communication that allow players to keep coming back and keep the ball of dialogue in the air? Marshall Rosenberg is the author of the book Nonviolent Communication and served for many years as a diplomat, negotiator, and peacemaker in dangerous international contexts.

Note: This episode contains a graphic description of torture. Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon In this 1993 talk Michael Parenti explores the techniques that imperial powers such as the United States use in order to reduce "Third World" countries like Mexico, Guatemala, Iran, and so forth to dependency and economic vulnerability.

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon (00:00:00) Intro (00:00:52) Phenomenology of Spirit (00:45:36) Hegel & the Meaning of History Enjoy -//-

Come join my Patreon! It's free! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon The late David Graeber was an anthropologist who often ventured into uncharted waters in the social sciences, exploring pirates, bullshit jobs, and the history of debt and currency. In this talk, he breaks down the moral psychology of debt, the history of currency, and why we all feel like we are "owed our due." Enjoy.

Come join my Patreon! ⁠https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon⁠ (00:00:00) - Intro (00:00:52) - Part 7: Form From Chaos (00:41:36) - Part 8: Creativity & Chaos (01:26:21) - Part 9: Chaos & Imagination (1/2) (02:08:08) - Part 10: Chaos & Imagination (2/2) -//-

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon (00:00:00) - Intro (00:00:50) - Part 4: Fractal History (00:54:51 ) - Part 5: Creativity and the Imagination (1/2) (01:40:24) - Part 6: Creativity and the Imagination (2/2) -//- Part 4 - Fractal History at the Edge of the Millennium The fractal idea of history, and millennia as the plateaus of history. These bifurcation periods as opportunities to influence the creation of the future. What kind of future or change are we trying to create? The need for the enhancement and spread of clarity. Psychic pets and their role in breaking the spell of rationalism. Psychedelics, the World Wide Web and psychic pets as forms of boundary dissolution. The need for change in the educational system. The problem of the rejection of mathematics. Part 5 - Creativity and the Imagination (1/2) The crisis in science: collision between the permanent and evolutionary views of the nature of reality. The universe as an evolving system of habits. Did natural law exist before the Big Bang? Cosmic creativity, imagination and the womb of chaos. Chaotic sudden perturbations. The Omega Point. The ego's response to chaos. The cosmic attractor in the evolutionary process. Part 6 - Creativity and the Imagination (2/2) How is human imagination related to the creative principle of nature? The nature of the Gaian mind. Human history as a Gaian dream. The Divine Imagination as the source of all creativity. How can we extract the message of the Gaian mind? How could the imaginations of the solar system, galaxy and cosmos be related to each other? Dark matter and the cosmic unconscious. The nature of the Logos. The personal apocalypse. The journey of language to the Divine Imagination. Natural law, ordinary reality and chaos.

A DMT priest, an evolutionary biologist, and a chaos mathematician walk into a hot-tub in California... (00:00:00) - Host Intro (00:00:43) - Cast of Characters (00:51:12) - The Evolutionary Mind (02:00:17) - Superintelligent AI -//- My Patreon! Buy the ticket, take the ride! https://patreon.com/hemlockpatreon Descriptions courtesy Sheldrake.org https://www.sheldrake.org/audios/the-sheldrake-mckenna-abraham-trialogues Part 1 - Cast of Characters An introduction to the first series of public trialogues held at Esalen, California in 1989. Morphic Resonance, the novelty wave, chaos mathematics, and their roles in the paradigm shift. The vision of nature as alive, and a new understanding of the soul of the world. The three masks - evolutionary creativity, the cosmic imagination and chaos. Insights into the nature of time. The practical application of chaos theory to the problems of the world. The human soul as a reflection of the world soul. Part 2 - The Evolutionary Mind 1998, UC Santa Cruz. What could have been the cause for the breakthrough in the evolution of human consciousness around 50,000 years ago? Collective memories of predation and how they may shape our minds today. The role of the imagination in our evolution. Physiological evolution and the idea of divine brain surgery. The psilocybin hypothesis. The transformation of human nature through connection with higher levels of consciousness in the universe. The universal information field and cosmic evolution. Part 3 - Superintelligent AI 1998, UC Santa Cruz. A discussion on the evolution of consciousness as it relates to machines. Symbolic logic, nanotechnology and the possibility of a synthetic super-intelligence. Artificial Intelligence as a part of ourselves that could shape our evolution. Virtual computers as the source of the AI. Partnership or conflict between human and machine? How much control do we have in the evolution of machine intelligence? Challenges to the premises of the AI argument. Quantum computers, machine-time and the possibilities of the World Wide Web. Enjoy

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