I'll be damned. After months of listening to different lectures (largely philosophy), I can't find more direct and honest lecturer than you. You seem to have a largely open conversation with the class and guide them through the materials. I don't know where else to find teaching like this for free online. I learned some of the classmates' names: that's how open a conversation you have going on here. It's kind of like a talk radio station.
I'll add this... Daniel Bonevac from University of Texas is a little bit like you in teaching method. He works with PowerPoint a lot but he tries to talk with the class in an ongoing conversation. I really appreciate this form of teaching. Edit: I switched "material" with "teaching method".
@@Paraselene_Tao Full disclosure, I did my undergraduate studies at the University of Texas and took my intro class with Dr. Bonevac. I wasn't thinking that much about philosophy *pedagogy* back then, but I'm sure it had an impact. Thanks for the kind words, by the way. I make an effort and it's nice to have that effort recognized.
@@adamrosenfeld9384 Isn't that nice? I had no idea you attended UT, and you were even taught by Dr. Bonevac. I was simply spotting the similarities in both of your teaching methods. I found both of you on Open Culture's list of free philosophy courses. Thanks for everything, and have a great day!
fantastic series, watched it the whole way through after stumbling across your channel studying Plato and getting into your ancient philosophy course. Would love to see that course you mentioned on existentialism if you ever recorded it. Thanks!
Maybe he refers to it as "private reason" because it's used within the sphere of your private life things that directly apply to you. When he describes "public reason" he is referring to your use of reason in reference to the general public things that would apply broadly. Ideas for everyone.
Your theses are wonderful, compelling, and motivating. If you were to study both Indian (Jotish) and Western astrology, and the concept of numbers and cycles (Numerology and The Divine Triangle/Faith Javane and Dusty Bunker), as I have for the past 20+ years, all of your ideas about the various philosophers would be drastically challenged. Number do not lie, they bring us into experiences that each of us could not even imagine. Each of us has a 9-year cycle which begins with the first letter of our name, going through 9-year cycles with the numbers of the letters of our name (and the numbers of our residential address), individually and cumulatively. Yes, philosophies give us something to think about, the numbers and the astrology behind those numbers give us our individual empirical experiences. The laws of astrology and numerology and the cycles of 9 are apriori, you cannot understand them until you study them and experience them in your own life. Therein, one comes to understand the greatest of all understandings of self, thought, thought, action and outcome. Philosophy talks of all of the theories of thought on an intellectual level. Not until one examines one's spiritual level, the most inward experience of doing and being, can one truly understand each individual and their place in the collective of the world. Thank you for your presentations, certainly they make us think, which is one experience. But to truly experience a different level of experience at one's core is truly phenomenal.
lol. Your post is interesting to read but philosophy excludes revelation. Numerology, astrology, et cetera are generally not valid in philosophy but you do You so long as it doesn't harm me or anyone.
@@Paraselene_Tao There is revelation in philosophy. When a young professor begins the journey of his/her philosophical paradigm (approach), he/she is not aware of the occult science that the universe occupies upon that path, wherein, the first book published, followed by the others, the individual is awakened hopefully, or not, along the way, through the years. The end of that philosophical journey questions the validity of seeking the world against the most inner realms of integrity and the yoga of the universe. There are many realms, philosophy but one.
@@MasterMetaphysician Human beings have a capacity for altered states of Mind (Mind lazily defined as awareness, cognition, and consciousness) including the holy state of mind. I have good reason to believe all of the holy state of mind lies within the domain of science. There is a material explanation and conceptual theory waiting to be born that explains the holy state of mind. This theory will birth a new branch of neuroscience... possibly called Neurotheology. This Neurotheology will explain, predict, model and produce technical applications for the holy state of mind. These feelings of Rapture, Divine Providence, and Spirituality will be tracked through the human central nervous system (and the rest of the body too) and will be understood at a deep enough level that we will learn how to control HSoM with technology. Scientitists are working on it now. Theories of numerology, astrology et cetera will fall out of use with enough time and deeper understanding. For now they are pseudoscience, pseudophilosophy, or both.
Certainly if you're surrounded by others who aren't thinking for themselves (but maybe not if you can find a community of genuine inquiry). Another possibility is that thinking for yourself may lead you to conclusions that you should act contrary what others think is normal and right, and that can be pretty scary too.
