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01:36:34
Why You Need to Give Sex Up, To Find True Love | Plato’s Symposium Explained
16:51
This is the Terrible Cost of Doing Philosophy
02:23:15
True Christians Embrace the Erotic | David O’Connor
01:56:50
Why You Must Acquire Power at All Costs | Harvard’s Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli
11:15
Knowledge is More Seductive Than Sex
44:11
AI & The End of Education
05:39
You Can Be Happy, Even If You Are Rich
08:04
My Name is Aristotle
08:14
Philosophy is the Last Subject Worth Studying
07:05
Oxford’s AI Chair: The Singularity is Bullshit
04:53
Oxford's AI Chair: LLMs are a HACK
01:37:35
How to Live a Virtuous Life | Cornell’s Rachana Kamtekar on Plato
01:21:25
This Drove Me Away from Stoicism
10:26
Why Socrates Hated Books (and why it matters for AI)
01:06:37
Why You Do Things You Know You Shouldn’t | Rachana Kamtekar on Plato’s Moral Psychology
01:40:43
One Argument to Destroy All Philosophical Positions | Tad Brennan on Ancient Skepticism
56:55
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Stoicism | Tad Brennan on Stoic Determinism
01:28:34
Human vs. Machine Consciousness | Imperial’s Murray Shanahan
01:22:21
The AI Use-Case No One is Talking About | Reid Hoffman
19:27
How to NOT be Scapegoated | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
13:30
How Mimetic Desire Actually Works
52:09
Why Stoicism Doesn’t Work Without God | Tad Brennan on Stoic Ethics
16:37
Girard's Major Blindspot | Limitations of Mimetic Theory
01:05:08
The Slave Who Was Free | Berkeley's AA Long on Epictetus
19:17
Girard Predicted US-China Trade War, What Comes Next is Terrifying
45:55
Lessons from the Two World Wars | Martha Nussbaum on Britten’s War Requiem
01:26:27
Stoics vs. Skeptics vs. Epicureans | AA Long on Hellenistic Philosophy
16:38
US vs. China's Education Systems
01:26:20
Democracy is Anarchy | Berkeley’s GRF Ferrari on Plato's Republic
01:26:57
Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge | AI History
01:09:13
Focus on These AGI-Proof Areas | Nick Bostrom
01:05:26
AI’s New World Order: US-China, War, Job Loss | Tyler Cowen
01:09:13
Plato’s Warning Against Friends-with-Benefits | GRF Ferrari on the Phaedrus
01:00:24
Making Sense of Christianity's Violent Past | Yale’s Carlos Eire
11:43
How to Handle Criticism: A Philosopher's Guide
09:54
Great Thinkers are NOT Great Scholars
13:23
The Renaissance Method for Language Learning
01:21:47
Think Like a Philosopher King | Stoic Wisdom from Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
11:09
"Don't Care What Others Think" is Terrible Advice, Do This Instead
17:33
I No Longer Fear AI Replacing Me, I Welcome It
02:11:13
The Surprising Evidence for Christian Miracles | Yale Historian Carlos Eire
38:53
The Surprising Source of Shakespeare’s Inspiration | Harvard’s Stephen Greenblatt
43:59
How Shakespeare Became Upper Class | Harvard's Stephen Greenblatt
01:39:11
Shakespeare's Urgent Warning to America | The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Explained
01:06:32
Rational Inquiry Harms Society | Christopher Kelly on Rousseau
01:24:27
Nietzsche: There is No Objective Right or Wrong | Brian Leiter
01:45:30
Why The Poor Support Inequality | Rousseau's Second Discourse Explained
47:33
The Surprising Politics of Roman Epicureans | Columbia's Katharina Volk
01:13:51
How to Combine Contemplation & Action | Katharina Volk on Cicero & Caesar
33:18
Shakespeare's Advice to People in Love | Harvard's Stephen Greenblatt
48:57
Stoicism is a Coping Mechanism | Katharina Volk on Cato
01:11:47
The Surprising Reason Why Plato Hated Innovation
01:20:22
Nietzsche's Warnings for Modern Man | UChicago's Robert Pippin
01:24:20
Columbia Professor Teaches the Art of Self-Esteem | Fred Neuhouser on Rousseau
01:13:16
Rousseau's Urgent Warning for Modern Society | Chris Kelly
01:41:33
How Intellectuals Poison Society | Rousseau's First Discourse Explained
54:38
Reject Free Will, Become Who You Are | Brian Leiter on Nietzsche
01:36:24
Masters vs. Slaves | Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality Explained
02:05
The Great Books | Trailer
01:36:48
Girard Predicts Apocalypse | Mimetic Theory