History of Philosophy Audio Archive

Mar 06 2025 170 ep. 119 mins 135
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Curated lectures, interviews, and talks with philosophers, social scientists, and historians together in one place. New Patreon-exclusive podcast Hemlock available at https://patreon.com/hemlockpatreon.

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#159 - Roy Casagranda's Dreams and Genocide: Yemen, the United Arab Republic, Yemen's Civil War, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Henry Kissinger, Houthi Revolutionaries, Climate Change, and the Arab Spring

Mar 06 2025 74 mins  
Come join my Patreon!https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreonCheck out Roy's YouTube Page:https://www.youtube.com/@DrRoyCasagranda00:00-Introduction 02:30-The 1919 Revolution: A Catalyst for Change10:38-Emergence of Dominant Ideologies in the Arab World20:59-The United Arab Republic: A Pan-Arab Dream23:48-Yemen's Civil War: Echoes of History28:24-The 1973 Arab-Israeli War and Its

Consolatio #2 - To Oppose Evil Men is the Chief Aim We Set Before Ourselves: Book I, Entrance of Philosophy to the Dungeon, Condemnation of Stoics and Epicurus, Pi & Theta, Fear Nothing, Hope Nothing

Mar 01 2025 66 mins  
It's finally here, and we're just getting started: Book I of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy with a new intro by me.(00:00:00) - Historical Introduction(00:22:54) - Note on Translation & Performance(00:26:16) - Book 1(01:03:23) - OutroPlease consider purchasing the book that inspired this project, the Ignatius Critical Edition translated by Scott Goins and Barba

#158 - Mircea Eliade and the Cycles of Time: Darren Staloff on Comparative Mythology, Symbolic Archetypes, the History of Religion, Eliade's Religious Scholarship, and the Theophany of Profane Events

Feb 28 2025 46 mins  
Suggestions for the show:[email protected]:https://www.patreon.com/HemlockPatreon-//-(00:00:00) - Intro(00:01:55) - Staloff on Eliade-//-Bluesky:https://bsky.app/profile/william-engels.bsky.socialDarren Staloff:https://hamilton.center.ufl.edu/people/darren-staloff/Mircea Eliade:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mircea_Eliade

#157 - Learn to Die So You Can Learn to Live: Cornel West on Socratic Legacy, Blues, Chekhov's Christ, American Democracy, Deep Education, Jazz, Augustine, and the Blue Note in the American Song

Feb 24 2025 102 mins  
Patreon: https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreonHang in there.Original Video, Published Feb 2014https://youtu.be/EwPCJ9WpH7EThank you to Wheaton College for recording and uploading this talk.https://www.youtube.com/@wheatoncollege

Consolation #1: 100 Reviewers Special! The Consolation of Philosophy - An Experiment in Reading Boethius, Part 1: Introduction

Feb 24 2025 23 mins  
We did it! 100 reviews on Spotify!To celebrate, we are kicking off an open-source audiobook project celebrating Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, a deathbed prose poem written at the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the birth of what is (somewhat unfortunately, but not for no reason called) the Dark Ages.00:00:00 Announcement00:08:36 Scholarly Introduction to the Consol

Hemlock #11 - Call Your Friends (or, Unhinged Volume II)

Feb 22 2025 41 mins  
We must needs densify the social fabric, compadres...https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon

#156 - Sartre: Robert C. Solomon on Existential Philosophy, Responsibility, Sartre's Experience as a POW, Being and Nothingness, No Exit, Phenomenology, Bad Faith, and Why We Are Doomed to Be Free

Feb 20 2025 181 mins  
“This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But you have to choose: live or tell.” -Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea, 1938.-//-0

Hemlock #10 - Capital (Kapital) Volume 1: Interview with Yale's Paul North & OSU's Paul Reitter on Karl Marx's Theory of Commodification, Communism, Property Rights, Value Theory, Worker Alienation

Feb 17 2025 96 mins  
Come join my Patreon!https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreonBuy Paul Reitter and Paul North's Scholarly Edition of Marx's Capital Volume 1:https://a.co/d/3dMYjCw(Untracked Link)"In the realm of religion, people are ruled by a product of their own heads, and it is just so in capitalist production, except that here people are ruled by the products of their own hands." Ka

#155 - Speaking Peace: Marshall Rosenberg on Conflict Resolution, Giraffe and Jackal Language, Nonviolent Communication, Expressing Needs and Desires, and Articulating a More Peaceful World

Feb 09 2025 186 mins  
Come join my Patreon!https://Patreon.com/HemlockPatreonLeave a review! Once we get to 100 I'll record and release (completely gratis) an outstanding philosophy audiobook from the public domain.Original Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7TONauJGfc&t=22s

#154 - The Philosopher's Stone: Terence McKenna on Hermeticism, Renaissance Magic, the Hidden History of Alchemy, the Catharites, Giordano Bruno, Rosicrucians, and the Rise of the Invisible College

Feb 06 2025 245 mins  
One of my favorite things ever recorded - if you haven't already, prepare for a wild, wild, ride. Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul is to be expunged; this I shall do by printing in the infernal method by corrosives, which in Hell are salutary and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, an