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#140 - Albert Camus: Robert C. Solomon on the Absurd Hero, The Stranger, The Plague, Existentialism in Literature, and the Benign Indifference of the Universe

2024-11-2302:26:51

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “And 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.” -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 -//- Robert C. Solomon (1942-2007)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._Solomon --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support

#139 - Machiavelli Double Episode: Michael Sugrue & Quentin Skinner on Renaissance Politics, the Philosophy of Ruthlessness, Nihilsm, and Why It Is a Double Pleasure to Deceive the Deceiver

2024-11-2301:15:25

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon -//- Original Sugrue Video: https://youtu.be/mU7hdGKOGyk Original Skinner Video: https://youtu.be/CKGuzJ6GwHM Enjoy. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support

#138 - The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Michael Sugrue on the Stoic Ideal, Absolute Power, Resistance to Temptation, and Who Writes a Book to Themself?

2024-11-2343:28

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#137 - Censorship: Ada Palmer on the Spanish Inquisition, Galileo and Descartes, the Renaissance Book Economy, Government Surveillance, and Self-Censorship

2024-11-1501:11:57

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon -//- Original Video: https://youtu.be/uMMJb3AxA0s Original Channel (UChicago Divinity School) https://www.youtube.com/@uchicagodivinityschool2166 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support

#135b - The Work of John Milton (Part II): John Rogers on Miltonic Power, Satan's Rebellion, Areopagitica, the Blind Prophet, and Justifying the Ways of God to Man

2024-11-1408:45:59

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#136 - Carl Jung's Approach to Therapy: Lionel Corbett on Depth Psychology, Mythic Imagery, The Treatment of Psychosis, and the Roots of Magical and Archetypal Thinking

2024-11-1401:14:29

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites—day 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.” -C. G. Jung, Man and His Symbols, 1964 -//- 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/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support

#135a - The Work of John Milton: Yale's John Rogers on Miltonic Power, Satan's Rebellion, Areopagitica, the Blind Prophet, and Justifying the Ways of God to Man

2024-11-1410:40:50

(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 -//- 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. -//- Original YouTube Playlist (Milton with John Rogers): ⁠https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2103FD9F9D0615B7 Original Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@YaleCourses⁠ John Rogers, Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, retired. https://english.yale.edu/people/professors-emeritus/john-rogers⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support

#134 - The Forgotten People of History: Roy Casagranda on Racism and Sexism in Western Historiography

2024-11-1101:53:42

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Talk Originally Titled “Deconstructing Racism and Sexism in the Envisagement of Western Civilization” The use of the phrase “all men are created equal” 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, 1980⁠https://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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support

#133 - The Philosophy of John Dewey: Progressive Education, Occupational Psychosis, American Pragmatism, and Process Philosophy

2024-11-0902:48:36

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “On 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.” -John Dewey, Experience and Education, 1938 -//- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_psychosis --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support

#132 - American "Patriots": Michael Parenti on American Exceptionalism, The Jingoist Desire to be Best and First, Opposing Fascism, and What Real Love of Country Looks Like

2024-11-0848:16

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “All 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.” ― Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds, 1997 -//- Original YouTube (1988) https://youtu.be/4vKfejeruhk Original Channel (AfroMarxist) https://www.youtube.com/@AfroMarxist --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support

The Great Dictator: Charlie Chaplin in 1940

2024-11-0804:31

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Hemlock #7 - Zen as a Way of Life: My Interview with Zen Teacher Astika Royal Mason on Meditative Practice, Inner Silence, and Telling Stories about Spiritual Growth

2024-11-0201:54:19

“The Great Way is not difficult, for those who have no preferences" -Xinxin Ming, Tang Dynasty Chan Buddhist Poem Check out Astika's Website: https://www.consciousness-light.com/ Check out Astika's Book: https://a.co/d/7jXvINK -//- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinxin_Ming https://zenmoments.org/hsin-hsin-ming-the-great-way --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support

#131 - Philosophy in Our Age of Imperial Decline: Cornel West on Blues and Jazz, Radical Democracy, and the Consequences of Imperial Hubris

2024-11-0201:02:20

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “The [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.” -Cornel West, Democracy Matters, 2004 -//- Original YouTube: https://youtu.be/k5ydesBadno Published March 2022 by The New School: https://www.youtube.com/@thenewschool --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support

#130 - The New War on Terror: Noam Chomsky on Subverting International Law, the Manufacture of Consent, and the True Meaning of the HW Bush's New WorldOrder [REUPLOAD]

2024-11-0102:02:20

“Destroying hope is a critically important project. And when it is achieved, formal democracy is allowed—even preferred, if only for public relation purposes. In more honest circles, much of this is conceded. Of course, it is understood much more profoundly by beasts in men's shapes who endure the consequences of challenging the imperatives of stability and order.” -Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival, 2003 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support

#129 - What Good are the Humanities? Talbot Brewer

2024-11-0158:24

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Philosophy could be characterized with only a bit of irony as what is left if you begin with the sum total of human thought and subtract those areas in which clear progress has been made.-Talbot Brewer, The Retrieval of Ethics, 2009 -//- Original YouTube: https://youtu.be/geBkIGDEU-k Published February 2017 by the University of Chicago https://www.youtube.com/@UChicago --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support

#128 - Shockwave of the Future: Terence McKenna on Psychedelic Liberation, the Alchemical Method, Matrilenial Society, The Ingression of Novelty, and Why History Ends in Green

2024-10-2807:33:48

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon "Human civilization is the result of ten million years of striving after the unspeakable" -Terence McKenna --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support

#127 - Obscene Totalitarians: Slavoj Zizek on the Bhagavad Gita, Ideological Guilt, the Third Reich, and Stalin's Perverse Legacy

2024-10-2701:24:39

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.” ― Slavoj Žižek, Interview with the Guardian, October 2014 -//- Original YouTube: https://youtu.be/lorX77nu3Jk Published April 2024 by Seton Hall University https://www.youtube.com/@setonhall --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support

#126 - Gaia: James Lovelock on Planetary Systems, the Challenge of Climate Change, and the Role of Human Beings in Ecological Stewardship

2024-10-2741:12

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct, she has little chance of evolving another.” -James Lovelock, The Vanishing Face of Gaia, 2009 Original YouTube: https://youtu.be/JtBuJbCwdyo Recorded 2011, Published October 2016 by CSUMB.https://www.youtube.com/@digitalcommonscsumb2306 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support

#125 - War in the Nazi Imagination: Richard J. Evans on Hitler's Goals in Poland, British Diplomacy, Winston Churchill, and the Final Solution

2024-10-2749:43

“If the experience of the Third Reich teaches us anything, it is that a love of great music, great art and great literature does not provide people with any kind of moral or political immunization against violence, atrocity, or subservience to dictatorship.” -Richard J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich, 2003 Original YouTube: https://youtu.be/FAHUyHDTphQ Provided by the Departments of History and Art History at the University of Otago, October 2017: https://www.youtube.com/@OtagoHumanities How did the Nazis conceive of war? In this lecture, Professor Evans—a world authority on Nazi Germany—argues that Hitler's belief that war was necessary for the fitness and survival of the German race led him to promote the indoctrination of German society at every level with a will to wage war and the preparedness to do so. Perpetual conflict was the aim, and the idea that World War II would have ended had the Nazis won is an illusion; it would have been followed by other conflicts, principally with America. In this way, defeat was built in to the Nazi war effort from the beginning. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support

#124 - The Wages of Rebellion: Chris Hedges on the Death of Liberalism, the Decline of Moral Institutions, and the Moral Imperative of Revolt

2024-10-2601:03:24

“Totalitarian states use propaganda to orchestrate historical amnesia, a state-induced stupidity. The object is to make sure the populace does not remember what it means to be free. And once a population does not remember what it means to be free, it does not react when freedom is stripped from it.” -Chris Hedges, The Wages of Revolt, 2015 Original YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXE6T1ySNRM The Sanctuary for Independent Media: https://www.youtube.com/@mediasanctuary Description, per @mediasanctuary: Chris Hedges, whose most recent book "Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt" (Nation Books) was published on May 15, 2015 is also the best-selling author of "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" (2003), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A quote from the book was used as the opening title quotation in the critically-acclaimed and Academy Award-winning 2009 film, The Hurt Locker. The quote reads: "The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug." Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In "Wages of Rebellion," Chris Hedges--who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books "Empire of Illusion" and "Death of the Liberal Class"--investigates what social and psychological factors cause revolution, rebellion, and resistance. Drawing on an ambitious overview of prominent philosophers, historians, and literary figures he shows not only the harbingers of a coming crisis but also the nascent seeds of rebellion. Hedges' message is clear: popular uprisings in the United States and around the world are inevitable in the face of environmental destruction and wealth polarization. Focusing on the stories of rebels from around the world and throughout history, Hedges investigates what it takes to be a rebel in modern times. Utilizing the work of Reinhold Niebuhr, Hedges describes the motivation that guides the actions of rebels as "sublime madness"--the state of passion that causes the rebel to engage in an unavailing fight against overwhelmingly powerful and oppressive forces. For Hedges, resistance is carried out not for its success, but as a moral imperative that affirms life. Those who rise up against the odds will be those endowed with this "sublime madness." --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support

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