Great Minds - Montesquieu and the Beginnings of Political Science 

Love him to speak on women issues.

Is he still alive ?

@@713screwstontx6 yes, he is.

@@713screwstontx6 No longer sadly

Professor Sugrue remains alive in our hearts and minds due to these videos. RIP 🙏 ❤ Professor Sugrue.

indeed.

Hear hear!

It is, but it's not easy to find something of this quality. Saw a video by chance on Marcus Aurelius, became really interested in hearing him on other topics, and then found a goldmine I never could have expected.

Complaining about a lack of education invariably comes from haughty, politically-minded people. None of them are Plato to be sure.

I think content like this showing up in this public forum demonstrate that we’re in the midst of another massive social conversation. “Normal” people are able to engage with philosophy and intellectual reflections like never before-you can now discuss life/meaning with the world while sitting on the toilet. The virtual public square is here like the printing press in the reformation.

@@nightoftheworld I think your very naive, 95% of people are watching influencers doing deranged things, literally corrupting the youth...:-)

@@JC-gb2en the youth are fine, they can see the absurdity of social media easily. Its the adults that are busy being brainwashed by disinformation that are the ones lacking critical thinking skills since most of them havent had to do any educated study for 20 years or so

@@vvohvaelez9277 The youth are not fine: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RYSLyvbR_1w.html We might even say _the kids aren't alright._

seems from what ive heard in this lecture democracy was never viable for america on montesquieu's terms

I like that New York Strip, especially cut thick and done medium rare.

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The definitions of almost everything in the US have become so loose that virtue is nowhere to be found. You say this is right, but someone can say the total opposite... What a challenge we are experiencing...

@@cch312 What's more/worse is that most people don't believe such a thing as virtue even exists.

@@candidlens the idea of Social Construct has destroyed more than we can ever imagine.

@@cch312 Round up all crusaders of truth, we'll mount our arguments and take back the holy land.

Pakistan right now probably going thru that

As a sociological thought experiment, Star Trek is too full of holes both in its worldbuilding and understanding of human nature to be a serious template for reality. It's time we left this kind of Mickey Mouse sociology behind. Hollywood and the small number of people who control it are not the architects of the future, no matter how effectively the've brainwashed people to the contrary. But since you ask the question, two things are worth pointing out: 1) Human nature has patently improved over the period of recorded history, if your standard of improvement involves reduction in violence and increase in individuality, etc. 2) The timeline of the Star Trek universe, in case you have forgotten, begins with a global war in which 600,000,000 people die. The only story Hollywood knows how to tell is the one in the Scripture they left behind: a great and terrible destruction, a war to end all wars where all of humanity's sins will be revealed, followed by a better world than any human has ever known. The entire secular world has still failed to come up with a better story. And we are further away from Star Trek than we were 50 years ago.

Knowledge is power. France is bacon.

You're not an idiot. The tragic thing is that you're average.

Brooks Brothers corduroy.

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John Vervaeke's "Waking Up from the Meaning Crisis" is a life-changing lecture series

who wasn’t! mostly every leader is... even if not open about

If you ever read a book that didn't influence you, then objectively you wasted your time.

My guess is the early 90s

Ha, this is relatable. Next step might be reading at least one or some of the original works. I can also recommend the Royal Institute for lectures on scientific topics.

I mean hey, doesn't matter who or what sparked your intrigue! Commit to the capability of cultivating the comprehensive creative capacity of your consciousness :)

Hack , hack, cough!

Hey guys welcome to the world of the free ivy league....

Hahaha so accurate

yes

I disagree, I would respond that genocide, not slavery, is "the basest vice", the summum malum. From a book I am working on: In the wild, there was no reason to spare strangers who competed for resources (unless there was some problem with endogamous reproduction) until trade with agricultural civilizations emerged. The “… main commodity traded [by nomads] to early states [in Mesopotamia] was the slave”. Trade with early sedentary civilizations may have provided many nomadic peoples with their first and only reason to take captives rather than simply slaughter competing populations, as has been found in so many archaeological sites in every portion of the planet. Sooner or later, the Cain and Abel conflict gets reprised at every place and time. We are all descended from Cain. If you doubt this, ask your Denisovian and Neanderthal friends for confirmation. The quote in the first sentence above is from Smith, Against the Grain, p35 Slavery or some coercive arrangement for extracting labor, like serfdom, were historically ubiquitous, Judaism, Christianity and Islam legitimized slavery; very few of the laborers constructing the Great Wall of China were volunteers; Dalits were born into a degraded Indian caste that justified their exploitation, the Roman law of slavery was highly developed for a reason, the Mongols enslaved an immense swath of Eurasia. When complex societies begin to produce a predictable surplus beyond subsistence, most of this new surplus goes to the elites, military or religious, who organize this labor. All complex premodern societies were dependent upon slave labor supplemented by coercive work arounds like a corvee. Slaves and other ill treated people longed for redemption and freedom, often with tragic results, but after a massacre there were no aspirations left.