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Tolkienâs works have sold over 100 Million copies worldwide because they address the deepest questions humans can ask: Why is there evil and death in the world?
Would Immorality be a good thing? Where did the world come from, and where is it going? Tolkien reveals a new and deeper way to engage humanityâs search for meaning and hope.
SERIES Philosophy of Angels, Ep. 4 | Samuel Loncar, Ph.D. (Yale)
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The topic of UAP (UFOs) is important yet difficult to discuss coherently. Why?
Because the topic requires the best tools of science and scholarship but does not agree on what those are or how they should be applied.
My philosophy of science and religion provides clues to navigating profound changes in humanâs cosmic understanding, including the UAP phenomenon.
The rise of the concept of agency in biology and AI connect to Carl Jungâs psychological interpretation of the phenomenon as a manifestation of global psychic unrest and a major alteration of human consciousness.
SERIES Philosophy of Angels, Ep. 3
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Did you know Hanukkah and Christmas encode deep philosophical ideas about Enlightenment, becoming Superhuman, and the Future of Humanity?
The stars and the gods once governed the night sky and the dreams humans had of themselves.
The Human story was thus told as a mystery of light, the evolution of the universe, and the fate of the stars.
The Philosophy of Angels, Ep. 2
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Can yielding and flowing really be the Way to attain the good?
Bruce Lee thought so. âBe Water,â he famously said, channeling a central insight of the Tao Te Ching, one of great works of Chinese Philosophy.
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The idea of Angels, whether we believe in them or not, reveals secrets about human consciousness and how to transform it.
In this episode, I use the German poet Rilke to connect deep patterns across Judaism, Islam, and Christianity and other traditions, found in their shared understanding of angels as messengers that lead to revolutionary transformations of human consciousness.
Ultimately, we discover that humans across all time, cultures, and traditions all believe in some idea of what angels are, and that idea is connected to accessing inspiration and higher states of consciousness.
Series: The Meaning of the Season of Lights: A Philosophy of Angels
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What is the Way? The Way, or Tao, is the central mystery of life, according to the Tao Te Ching, one of the greatest works of Chinese philosophy.
So how do we find the Tao? What does the Way look like? This video answers that question by introducing the Tao Te Ching, and the mystery of Return... Join me at the Becoming Human Project today!
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Is life a momentary fragment, a meaningless event? Or Is life an eternal and glorious process and event?
These two different ideas of lifeâlife as intrinsically meaningless or life as intrinsically meaningfulâare connected to our emotional reactions and ultimately our idea of time and our world.
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Chef Arturo Franco Camacho is the Culinary Director and Executive Chef of three of New Havenâs best restaurants: Geronimoâs Southwestern Kitchen, Shell & Bones Oyster Bar, and Camacho Garage. His restaurants are not only a destination for great food but fantastic atmosphere.
Trained at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA), the worldâs premiere culinary college, he has worked as a chef at restaurants in Spain, France, and London, and spent five years as chef aboard the worldâs top cruise ship, the Queen Elizabeth II.
In this conversation, Chef Franco talks about his love of cooking with his mom and grandmother in Mexico at an early age, his brief time in dentistâs school, his travels around the world, and how, despite training and working in top kitchens, he was denied work in Hew Haven as a chef, which lead him to create New Havenâs first taco cart on Yaleâs campus.
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Science is the only tradition that actively admits its own errors, gaining deeper knowledge by overcoming its tendency to orthodoxy. This happens when scientific revolutions shatter existing paradigms. The process begins with anomalies, potential facts that do not fit the paradigm. The physicist Sabine Hossenfelder sees many anomalies in current physics, and argues that physics today has lost its way because physics has followed the wrong rules, rules of beauty rather than rules proper to science. Hossenfelderâs intervention in physics illustrates the profound relevance of Thomas Kuhnâs discussion of rules and facts in science.
Kuhn explores how scientific facts grow and change, how fact and theory are finally inseparable, and how debates about the rules of science emerge in revolutionary periods, like our own. I use Hossenfelder in conversation with Kuhnâs âThe Priority of Paradigmsâ in Ep. 6 of my series to show facts are far more complex than we realize, and this is why today our partisanship manifests as a world of no shared facts. Science shows the way forward.
Episode 6, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: An Introduction
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According to Thomas Kuhn, the most mature sciences have only a limited tolerance for novelty. Contrary to the common image of scientific progress as a continuous series of discoveries, Kuhn shows itâs actually the progress of paradigms towards ever greater precision. Progress in normal science thus does not aim at novelty but the enrichment of the depth and concreteness of the theory.
Drawing on the the insights of Edward Wittenâs defense of string theory, Episode 5 of Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions explores the concept of novelty and discovery in Section IV: âThe Nature of Normal Science.â
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The longing for a complete science is one of the great dreams of modernity. Is such a complete science possible, and can Kuhnâs idea of a paradigm help us realize it? This episode explores the origins and power of the search for completeness and unity in Western science, and reveals the unexpected spiritual origins of this ideal.
Ep. 4, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: An Introduction
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Thomas Kuhn coined the concept of a paradigm to describe the unique achievement of science. Since Kuhn, the terms âparadigmâ and âparadigm shiftâ have entered into popular culture, but what really is a paradigm? How does it connect to normal science? And can it help us distinguish real science from pseudo-science? All these questions, and more, are explored in this episode of my series on Kuhn.
Episode 3, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: An Introduction
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Thomas Kuhn argued that history would change our image of science, causing a revolution we are still unprepared to face. This Kuhnian revolution challenges traditional epistemology by arguing we must look to science itself to understand how knowledge develops, and looking to science demands facing history. This episode of my course on Kuhnâs The Structure of Scientific Revolutions explores these issues, and more.
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What is Science? What happened in the Scientific Revolution? How does Science progress? Thomas Kuhnâs The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is the most influential book in the history and philosophy of science, addressing these and other key questions. This public series offers an introduction to this major work and includes a discussion of Kuhn's core ideas: paradigm shifts, normal and revolutionary science, and more.
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On Nov. 11, 1855, after an astoundingly rich yet brief life, Søren Aabye Kierkegaard died. He requested his epitaph read simply: âThat Individual.â The âsingle individualâ is the soul of Kierkegaardâs work, but what does it mean to become an individual? This final episode of Kierkegaard: The Poet of Existence, explores the mystery of freedom and true individuality, and how they relate to the Eternal.
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10.27.2023Course Link: www.samuelloncar.com/courses
Course Code: BECOMINGHUMANWITHSK
Series Description
Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher and religious thinker, created one of the most consequential bodies of writing in human history. One of the greatest literary writers, he is also widely regarded as the most important philosophers and theologians to create much of the 20th century: movements like existentialism, modern theology, and even forms of modern nihilism can be traced back to the work of Kierkegaard.
Kierkegaard is known as a delightful and difficult figure; like Socrates, he is ironic and hard to understand. He is also my first great teacher, so to honor his personal and historical influence, I am doing an 8 episode series on Søren Kierkegaard: The Poet of Existence.
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As a philosopher and scholar who writes about Christian-Jewish relations and modern German thought, I offer in this lecture an analysis of antisemitism as a philosophical problem, show its global scope, and explore its historical and existential significance as a threat to any vision of universal human flourishing.
Referenced Materials
Becoming Human: Origins
Christianity's Shadow Founder: Marcion, Anti-Judaism, and The Birth of Protestant Liberalism
Why Antisemitism is Our Problem
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Kierkegaard's theory of the three stages of life, the aesthetic, ethical, and religious offers profound insight into the existential realities of human life. Building on the prior two episodes on the aesthetic and ethical stages, this episode explores the meaning of the religious phase by exhibiting existential ontology in relationship to sexual and erotic desire, consumer capitalism, and humans' habit of turning people, including themselves, into mere things.
Purchase Code: BECOMINGHUMAN | https://www.samuelloncar.com/courses
Series Description
Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher and religious thinker, created one of the most consequential bodies of writing in human history. One of the greatest literary writers, he is also widely regarded as the most important philosophers and theologians to create much of the 20th century: movements like existentialism, modern theology, and even forms of modern nihilism can be traced back to the work of Kierkegaard.
Kierkegaard is known as a delightful and difficult figure; like Socrates, he is ironic and hard to understand. He is also my first great teacher, so to honor his personal and historical influence, I am doing an 8 episode series on Søren Kierkegaard: The Poet of Existence.
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Fear and Trembling is the most famous book by Kierkegaard, but to understand it we have to understand his theory of stages. This episode explores the ethical stage and illustrates it through Fear and Trembling and Judge Wilhelm of Either /Or. Additional topics covered include esotericism in philosophy, romantic marriage, the erotic sphere, the religious stage, and Kierkegaardâs concept of the Self as an achievement.
Series Description
Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher and religious thinker, created one of the most consequential bodies of writing in human history. One of the greatest literary writers, he is also widely regarded as the most important philosophers and theologians to create much of the 20th century: movements like existentialism, modern theology, and even forms of modern nihilism can be traced back to the work of Kierkegaard.
Kierkegaard is known as a delightful and difficult figure; like Socrates, he is ironic and hard to understand. He is also my first great teacher, so to honor his personal and historical influence, I am doing an 8 episode series on Søren Kierkegaard: The Poet of Existence.
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Kierkegaard is famous for his theory of the three stages on life's way, the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious. Though much discussed, the stages are enigmatic and confusing to many readers. This episode outlines the nature of the theory of stages in its profound significance, and it introduces the aesthetic phase and its emphasis on possibility and seduction.
Series Description
Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher and religious thinker, created one of the most consequential bodies of writing in human history. One of the greatest literary writers, he is also widely regarded as the most important philosophers and theologians to create much of the 20th century: movements like existentialism, modern theology, and even forms of modern nihilism can be traced back to the work of Kierkegaard.
Kierkegaard is known as a delightful and difficult figure; like Socrates, he is ironic and hard to understand. He is also my first great teacher, so to honor his personal and historical influence, I am doing an 8 episode series on Søren Kierkegaard: The Poet of Existence.
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On Sept 29 1841, Søren Kierkegaard defended a genre-bending dissertation at the University of Copenhagen. Both rigorous scholarship and dazzling literary genius, Kierkegaardâs The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates is the first major work in Kierkegaardâs authorship.
Laying the foundation for his future pseudonymous works, the dissertation explores the importance of irony in his time, and the lecture shows how the importance of Kierkegaardâs work on irony is connected to existentialism, modernism, and the challenge of human existence today.
Series Description
Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher and religious thinker, created one of the most consequential bodies of writing in human history.One of the greatest literary writers, he is also widely regarded as the most important philosopher and theologian to create much of the 20th century: movements like existentialism, modern theology, and even forms of modern nihilism can be traced back to the work of Kierkegaard.
Kierkegaard is known as a delightful and difficult figure; like Socrates, he is ironic and hard to understand. He is also my first great teacher, so to honor his personal and historical influence, I am doing an 8 episode series, Soren Kierkegaard: The Poet of Existence.
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