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The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, Jonathan Rose.
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âWhereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silentâ
-Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
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"The philosopher as we understand him, we free spirits - as the man of the most comprehensive responsibility who has the conscience for the collective evolution of mankind: this philosopher will make use of the religions for his work of education and breeding, just as he will make use of existing political and economic conditionsâŠ.the will to self-mastery is always increasing - religion presents them with sufficient instigations and temptations to take the road to higher spirituality, to test the feelings of great self-overcoming, of silence and solitude.
-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886-//-
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:00:41) - Nietzsche as Myth and Mythmaker
(00:44:34) - Nietzsche on Truth and Lies
(01:23:54) - Master of Suspicion, the Immoralist
(02:04:23) - The Death of God
(02:46:06) - The Eternal Return (Time is a Flat Circle)
(03:25:04) - The Will to Power
(04:08:08) - Nietzsche as Artist
(04:49:20) - Nietzsche's Bastard Children
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âHe no longer cared to live in a house, and he rose once more into the air, this time on the breath of a breeze so sheer and transparent not even the gods felt it. This is the wind that further frees even the free. As his soul rose on that wind, it seemed to expand and flow out in all directions at once. Rising steadily upward, he passed through the arched windows of that celestial mansion and began a journey that would penetrate even the most distant, the most veiled mysteries of heaven. He slipped stealthfully across secret skies, across worlds and all their skies, growing deeper and wider as he did so, traveling beyond the starry reach of any sky, of any universe, to a place where no one could follow. There, lost in the divine and infinite distances of nothingness itself, he too disappeared, his last breath released, like a luminous song, into the void of a transcendent eternity.â
-Astika Royal Mason, A Dream Immortal, 2023References:
âFrom Here to Enlightenmentâ - HH the Dalai Lama
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12505636-from-here-to-enlightenment
Ardor - Roberto Calasso
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134839029-ardor-by-roberto-calasso
The Mirror of Simple Souls - Marguerite Porete
https://youtu.be/HvivvGZydFA
Agni in Hinduism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agni
Rig Veda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigveda
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âAdvice? I donât have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If youâre writing, youâre a writer. Write like youâre a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and thereâs no chance for a pardon. Write like youâre clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and youâve got just one last thing to say, like youâre a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for Godâs sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that weâre not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or donât. Who knows, maybe youâre one of the lucky ones who doesnât have to.â
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âAnd he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.â
-Albert Camus, The Plague, 1947
(00:00:00) - Intro & Host Promo
(00:00:40) - The Stranger, Part 1
(00:30:36) - The Stranger, Part 2
(01:00:33) - The Myth of Sisyphus
(01:29:22) - The Plague & The Fall
(01:58:45) - The Fall, Part 2
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Robert C. Solomon (1942-2007)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._Solomon
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âThe sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable oppositesâday and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.â
-C. G. Jung, Man and His Symbols, 1964
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Original YouTube
https://youtu.be/8Ojpm6G3PYw
Original Channel (The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis):
https://www.youtube.com/@isps_us
Lionel Corbett
https://www.pacifica.edu/faculty/lionel-corbett/
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(00:00:00): Intro
(00:00:52): Milton and Power
(00:45:31): The Infant Cry of God
(01:33:38): Credible Employment
(02:24:03): Poetry and Virginity
(03:15:35): Poetry and Marriage
(04:02:57): Lycidas
(04:55:10): Lycidas Part II
(05:48:09): Areopagitica
(06:35:08): Paradise Lost Book I
(07:26:50): God and Mammon
(08:17:49): Miltonic Smile
(09:03:49): The Blind Prophet
(09:51:35): Paradise Lost Book III
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A study of Milton's poetry, with some attention to his literary sources, his contemporaries, his controversial prose, and his decisive influence on the course of English poetry.
Description courtesy of Yale University, presented Fall 2007, uploaded November 2008. I opted to split this otherwise 19 hour episode into two parts so Spotify can handle it. See 135b.
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Original YouTube Playlist (Milton with John Rogers):â https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2103FD9F9D0615B7
Original Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@YaleCoursesâ
John Rogers, Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, retired.
https://english.yale.edu/people/professors-emeritus/john-rogersâ
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Talk Originally Titled âDeconstructing Racism and Sexism in the Envisagement of Western Civilizationâ
The use of the phrase âall men are created equalâ was probably not a deliberate attempt to make a statement about women. It was just that women were beyond consideration as worthy of inclusion. They were politically invisible. Though practical needs gave women a certain authority in the home, on the farm, or in occupations like midwifery, they were simply overlooked in any consideration of political rights, any notions of civic equality.-Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States, 1980â https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_United_State-//-
Original YouTube:
https://youtu.be/lk4ncpkstAw
Original Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheAustinSchool
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âOn the other hand, if an experience arouses curiosity, strengthens initiative, and sets up desires and purposes that are sufficiently intense to carry a person over dead places in the future, continuity works in a very different way. Every experience is a moving force.â
-John Dewey, Experience and Education, 1938
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_psychosis
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âAll conservative ideologies justify existing inequities as the natural order of things, inevitable outcomes of human nature. If the very rich are naturally so much more capable than the rest of us, why must they be provided with so many artificial privileges under the law, so many bailouts, subsidies and other special considerations - at our expense? Their "naturally superior talents" include unprincipled and illegal subterfuge such as price-fixing, stock manipulation, insider training, fraud, tax evasion, the legal enforcement of unfair competition, ecological spoliation, harmful products and unsafe work conditions. One might expect naturally superior people not to act in such rapacious and venal ways. Differences in talent and capacity as might exist between individuals do not excuse the crimes and injustices that are endemic to the corporate business system.â
â Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds, 1997
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Original YouTube (1988)
https://youtu.be/4vKfejeruhk
Original Channel (AfroMarxist)
https://www.youtube.com/@AfroMarxist
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âThe Great Way is not difficult, for those who have no preferences"
-Xinxin Ming, Tang Dynasty Chan Buddhist Poem
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinxin_Ming
https://zenmoments.org/hsin-hsin-ming-the-great-way
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âThe [music of the] Blues is relevant today because when we look down through the corridors of time, the black American interpretation of tragicomic hope in the face of dehumanizing hate and oppression will be seen as the only kind of hope that has any kind of maturity in a world of overwhelming barbarity and bestiality. That barbarity is found not just in the form of terrorism but in the form of the emptiness of our lives - in terms of the wasted human potential that we see around the world. In this sense, the blues is a great democratic contribution of black people to world history.â
-Cornel West, Democracy Matters, 2004-//-
Original YouTube:
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Published March 2022 by The New School:
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