1990 Philosophy and Human Values - Rick Roderick https://rickroderick.org Tue, 16 Jan 2024 11:41:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.6 https://rickroderick.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/220px-RickRoderick-144x144.jpg 1990 Philosophy and Human Values - Rick Roderick https://rickroderick.org 32 32 on grading, knowledge and power https://rickroderick.org/nietzsches-happy-face/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nietzsches-happy-face https://rickroderick.org/nietzsches-happy-face/#respond Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:25:48 +0000 http://rickroderick.org/?p=22 From: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 6: Nietzsche – Knowledge and Belief Transcript: First, what’s supposed to be so scandalous about Nietzsche. Nietzsche is supposed to hold the scandalous view that knowledge is a form of power. Now that is scandalous because knowledge is knowledge. It’s objective. You know, like journalism. And it would […]

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]]> https://rickroderick.org/nietzsches-happy-face/feed/ 0 kafka’s commodified sunday stroll https://rickroderick.org/kafkas-sunday-stroll/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kafkas-sunday-stroll https://rickroderick.org/kafkas-sunday-stroll/#respond Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:24:47 +0000 http://rickroderick.org/?p=21 From: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 6: Nietzsche – Knowledge and Belief Transcript: …so that the process of a world becoming bureaucratically more complex and more intrusive at the level of the state is a world phenomenon. It’s not localisable. The process of an economy becoming ever more diverse – commodifying ever more sections […]

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]]> https://rickroderick.org/kafkas-sunday-stroll/feed/ 0 freud: civilisation and its discontents https://rickroderick.org/consciousness-is-sparta/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=consciousness-is-sparta https://rickroderick.org/consciousness-is-sparta/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:23:47 +0000 http://rickroderick.org/?p=20 From: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 8: Philosophy and Postmodern Culture Transcript: Freud compares the conscious mind, in the book I have – I am talking about now, he compares the conscious mind to a garrison. A captured, tiny garrison in an immense city. The city of Rome. With all its layers of history. […]

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]]> https://rickroderick.org/consciousness-is-sparta/feed/ 1 mass culture is enlightenment in reverse gear https://rickroderick.org/consciousness-and-despair/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=consciousness-and-despair https://rickroderick.org/consciousness-and-despair/#respond Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:22:20 +0000 http://rickroderick.org/?p=19 From: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 8: Philosophy and Postmodern Culture Transcript: The goal of a mass telecommunication culture is psychoanalysis in reverse. It’s that the little, last remaining parts of that garrison become unconscious. It’s precisely to reverse that process of enlightenment. Mass culture is enlightenment in reverse gear. Precisely to wipe out […]

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]]> https://rickroderick.org/consciousness-and-despair/feed/ 0 react, follow, or replicate https://rickroderick.org/psychoanalysis-in-reverse/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=psychoanalysis-in-reverse https://rickroderick.org/psychoanalysis-in-reverse/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:19:56 +0000 http://rickroderick.org/?p=18 From: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 8: Philosophy and Postmodern Culture Transcript: …but in a culture so overloaded, where we already suspect – if we don’t know – that it’s goal is psychoanalysis in reverse: to make the parts of us that think into ones that don’t; just react, follow, or replicate. One thing […]

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]]> https://rickroderick.org/psychoanalysis-in-reverse/feed/ 1 superman’s knowledge crystals https://rickroderick.org/supermans-knowledge-crystals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=supermans-knowledge-crystals https://rickroderick.org/supermans-knowledge-crystals/#respond Mon, 09 Feb 2015 11:16:01 +0000 http://rickroderick.org/?p=6 From: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 1: Socrates and the Life of Inquiry Transcript: …and then that makes knowing yourself a crucially important part of knowledge. Now I’ll make this as simple as I can. I love to use references to movies, I mean not many of us read any more, but a lot […]

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]]> https://rickroderick.org/supermans-knowledge-crystals/feed/ 0 100 Guide: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) https://rickroderick.org/100-guide-philosophy-and-human-values-1990/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=100-guide-philosophy-and-human-values-1990 https://rickroderick.org/100-guide-philosophy-and-human-values-1990/#comments Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:06:54 +0000 http://rickroderick.org/?p=85 Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Rick Roderick, Ph. D. Lecture One: Socrates and the Life of Inquiry The trial and death of Socrates inaugurated the Western philosophical tradition. Investigation turned from movement of stars and composition of the earth toward human matters by separating scientific from philosophic discourse. Dialogic form posits dialogue as essential to […]

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]]> https://rickroderick.org/100-guide-philosophy-and-human-values-1990/feed/ 7 108 Philosophy and Post-Modern Culture (1990) https://rickroderick.org/108-philosophy-and-post-modern-culture-1990/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=108-philosophy-and-post-modern-culture-1990 https://rickroderick.org/108-philosophy-and-post-modern-culture-1990/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:29:22 +0000 http://rickroderick.org/?p=49 Last updated: 3 October 2023 Download: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 8: Philosophy and Postmodern Culture.mov Transcript: A brief recap of the whole journey we have taken here. We tried to as it were retrace, sort of, the history of the accounts of human values given in the Western philosophical tradition. That account seemed […]

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]]> https://rickroderick.org/108-philosophy-and-post-modern-culture-1990/feed/ 4 107 Kierkegaard and the Contemporary Spirit (1990) https://rickroderick.org/107-kierkegaard-and-the-contemporary-spirit-1990/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=107-kierkegaard-and-the-contemporary-spirit-1990 https://rickroderick.org/107-kierkegaard-and-the-contemporary-spirit-1990/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:22:24 +0000 http://rickroderick.org/?p=47 Last updated: 27 March 2023 Download: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 7: Kierkegaard and the Contemporary Spirit.mov Transcript: Okay, last time I may have dropped out of my West Texas mode for a moment and become a little too philosophical, so I am going to try to restate a few things from Nietzsche in […]

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]]> https://rickroderick.org/107-kierkegaard-and-the-contemporary-spirit-1990/feed/ 6 106 Nietzsche: Knowledge and Belief (1990) https://rickroderick.org/106-nietzsche-knowledge-and-belief-1990/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=106-nietzsche-knowledge-and-belief-1990 https://rickroderick.org/106-nietzsche-knowledge-and-belief-1990/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:54:20 +0000 http://rickroderick.org/?p=45 Last updated: 04 November 2020 Download: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 6: Nietzsche – Knowledge and Belief.mov Transcript: Last time, in our last lecture, we were screaming about the United States government and its many failings. I want to make clear something, and it’s… unfortunately in the current context… I must tell you that […]

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]]> https://rickroderick.org/106-nietzsche-knowledge-and-belief-1990/feed/ 3 105 Hegel and Modern Life (1990) https://rickroderick.org/105-hegel-and-modern-life-1990/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=105-hegel-and-modern-life-1990 https://rickroderick.org/105-hegel-and-modern-life-1990/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:03:41 +0000 http://rickroderick.org/?p=43 Last updated: 04 November 2020 Download: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 5: Hegel and Modern Life.mov Transcript: Okay. In our last lecture, I ended the history of ethics in a way – what would be a usual introduction to an ethics course – by discussing Hegel’s view of ethics with its… what one might […]

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]]> https://rickroderick.org/105-hegel-and-modern-life-1990/feed/ 6 104 Mill on Liberty (1990) https://rickroderick.org/104-mill-on-liberty-1990/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=104-mill-on-liberty-1990 https://rickroderick.org/104-mill-on-liberty-1990/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:38:48 +0000 http://rickroderick.org/104-mill-on-liberty-1990/ Last updated: 27 March 2023 Download: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 4: Mill on Liberty.mov Transcript: Okay, we ended the last lecture by discussing the Utilitarian ethical theory which is that we should always act so as to bring about the greatest happiness for the greatest number, and Kant’s ethical theory that we should […]

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]]> https://rickroderick.org/104-mill-on-liberty-1990/feed/ 9 103 Kant and the Path to Enlightenment (1990) https://rickroderick.org/103-kant-and-the-path-to-enlightenment-1990/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=103-kant-and-the-path-to-enlightenment-1990 https://rickroderick.org/103-kant-and-the-path-to-enlightenment-1990/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:26:30 +0000 http://rickroderick.org/?p=37 Last updated: 04 November 2020 Download: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 3: Kant and the Path to Enlightenment.mov Transcript: I have the daunting task of summarising 2000 years in two sentences, so I’ll avoid it, and hope that you saw the last tape. Which was basically… the movement so far is to present something […]

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]]> https://rickroderick.org/103-kant-and-the-path-to-enlightenment-1990/feed/ 8 102 Epicureans, Stoics, Skeptics (1990) https://rickroderick.org/102-epicureans-stoics-skeptics-1990/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=102-epicureans-stoics-skeptics-1990 https://rickroderick.org/102-epicureans-stoics-skeptics-1990/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:33:35 +0000 http://rickroderick.org/?p=35 Last updated: 27 March 2023 Download: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 2: Epicureans, Stoics, Skeptics.mov Transcript: Well, in the last lecture I tried to just make a few suggestive remarks in order to get us off the ground about what might be called “the Greek way of life”, and different forms of human conduct […]

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]]> https://rickroderick.org/102-epicureans-stoics-skeptics-1990/feed/ 1 101 Socrates and the Life of Inquiry (1990) https://rickroderick.org/101-socrates-and-the-life-of-inquiry-1990/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=101-socrates-and-the-life-of-inquiry-1990 https://rickroderick.org/101-socrates-and-the-life-of-inquiry-1990/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:42:05 +0000 http://rickroderick.org/?p=33 Last updated: 26 March 2023 Download: Philosophy and Human Values (1990) Lecture 1: Socrates and the Life of Inquiry.mov Transcript: A course in philosophy and human values may seem paradoxical because philosophy was that discipline, in our traditions – that’s western traditions, western civilisation – that began with a search for unconditioned knowledge. Unconditioned by […]

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