Karl Marx - From Socrates to Sartre (1979) 

She's so good....I've never heard it explained that way.

I am impressed. Wish I had had a teacher like you in my student life.

What a thrilling teacher!

I wish I had a teacher like this Lady. Exceptionally very good

Such a great presentation.

Detailed yet classic

These old televised gems are much more interesting (albeit dated) than just a picture with a voice. I watched the series on Existentialism - hooked. If you can dig up more of these old talks that would be FAB - I know Alan Watts did a series from LA back in the 60s on Taoism

I am a Ph.D. In philosophy and an academic. I love this, and it is so true to my roots!

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was really looking forward to more from this series, tyvm!

Great lecturer. I wish my college professors had been 1/4 as good.

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Yess, best episode!

I accidently once tuned into a tv channel in 1995 and watched your lectures, was very impressed, even more today.

Brilliant delivery!

This lecture was awesome! Thank you! We are the last of the intellectuals who can appreciate this knowledge!

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This is one intellectually gifted teacher!

Thelma Lavine was the head of the Philosophy Department at G.W.U. when I was an undergraduate there between 1970 and 1974. Her charisma was undeniable. I graduated with Special Honors in Philosophy.

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This woman is incredible.

good work

Can you make a playlist with this series please?

She is the best. 😮

Where can I find more of her talking about philosophy?

Thank you.

Original and spell bound professor actually she is major in American pragmatism and with great erudition and scholarship

her voice is magnetic . smart lady

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"You can return to France, but you are forbidden to live in Paris." And so they moved to London.

It is a good time to reevaluate our economic structures in history.Alienation , massive population growth, resources, climate change and major inequality are all big issues which need to be addressed for human survival

Great, great, great.

All that from a man who lived off the good graces of others.

47:50 Engels did marry once, I guess this wasn't known when this lecture was made.

These long takes are incredible. I wish there were a blooper reel 😂

I like how she pronounces the “h” in what and who.😂 A great clear voice though.

when was this presentation done? did I miss a date somewhere?

I feel like this has been reuploaded like each month

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What would Henry Ford say?

Please keep the full sample of the sublime ‘Nintendo’ music at the beginning! Marx was a great journalist.

I think Marx maybe failed to consider individuals EGO which comes into play where self interest leads to corruption and self interest which makes communal structures for fairness fall apart. Eg Russia,s oligarchs is all about individual Ego destroying interest of communal systems working

"the real is rational, and the rational is real.

It is fascinating to me that so many say they are proud followers of Karl Marx - he was as racist as they come. He was hardcore racist yet that is never mentioned. I wonder why?

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There is no conflict between the young Marx and the mature Marx but those who want to bury Marx want to tell us that Marx was confused. But even if there was a conflct, those of us who have done maths often follow a wrong thread which leads to wrong solution only later for you to realise that somewhere , your assumption was wrong. You correct it and get the right solution. Does the earler make you less a mathematician? If fact, it makes you better that you can go back and spot an error. But because Marx must be burried by capitalists, they look for bright philosophers to do the burying.

The whole rebellion leading to an ideal world part is certainly dubious. The awareness of the issues of runaway greed can find support in the framing of owner interests vs. worker best interests. Capitalists are quick to point to the gains and ideals of capitalism, but the observable practices which create unintended consequences remain un addressed in their propagandistic pronouncements.

According to Hegel, the driving force of this universe is Idea. While Marxism teaches us to see the driving force in the universe as matter or money. According to Marx, even the most sacred of the religious doctrines or ideologies are driven by or motivated towards 💰💰💰💰💶💷💸💸💸.

Unfortunately there are no more TV programs like this. It is all vulgariry like Love Island, BGT, ect....

A fem Sugrue!

So… not to dampen this incredible presentation which I am absolutely loving but this week Elon Musk announced that Tesla will make more money, not from its cars, but from robots which will have the dexterity of most any human along with AI intelligence and hence will do our work for “us”. Crazy as it seems but I can’t help but wonder what will happen when the proletariat are no longer the one who do the work - where does that leave the class structure revolution. Food for thought.

oh, you silly woman! there was no shift from humanism to science - there was merely a progression and broadening of ideas, an extension of the young Marx's focus on the inner man to, in his later writings, the mechanisms that drive society (which you rightly infer was influenced by Engels) - but these two foci are perfectly compatible; one is an extension of the other, not a shift from one paradigm to another. At the start of her second lecture, the reason for her confusion becomes clear: she is too literal-minded - unable to read the poetic meaning of his prose, she misrepresents him as a bloodthirsty tyrant desirous of beheading capitalists, even when his own income comes from a capitalist - Engels' father, via his son. It is said that Americans don't understand irony; this one doesn't understand allegory either!

She is good. But what about this; Hegel gave us a slave philosophy (the end of history is the Prussian state). Marx half-understood Hegel’s slave philosophy (between drunken bouts), and abandoned the idealists (rightly so) without realizing that matter and spirit are reconcilable (as a bad philosophy student he only saw idealism versus materialism, without understanding what Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza…. Might have to say). He accepted materialism as the only only alternative to Hegel’s idealism. Engels boasted that Marx turned Hegel on his head. In fact he had never really grasped Hegel. He made a narrow unjustifiable version of it that was meant to be simpler and more true but was in fact just narrower and less true. Everything could be explained, Marx said, by purely physical causes (leaving out Marx’s own reasoning which escaped miraculously and illogically from the material dialectic). There is no mind, no spirit, so according to my own mind there is only the material thesis and antithesis (something I picked up from Hegel without any union of minds). And then he said that it was time to stop thinking and time to start doing (according to the plan he had spent so long elaborating). Then the Marxists started getting to work. The rest is bloody history. And the last chapter hasn’t been written yet.

4:39 - French Revolution didn’t bring about freedom, but jealousy & blind lust for power that the others had and they didn’t. It was America’s Revolution, that kept God center, that Freedoms & Rights come from the Christian understanding, a freewill which comes w/ responsibility & accountability.. Spot on about Marx/ Hegelians that reasoned their way into believing they are each gods

They should have ended it at 1:44:17 the shit that came out of her mouth after that point was right out of the McCarthyism playbook.

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Marx is the truth

Philosophy is, and always was, mental masturbation. The rational is real and the real is rational. Is green really green?

aww yes the genius who put forth the worlds most murderous ideology

This lecture just exposes to me how terrible Marx's philosophy is. He spent the first half of his life denouncing capitalism, "exposing" and explaining the supposed exploitation of workers, calling for revolution, then spent the second half of his life witnessing the advance of living standards for workers through the system he dedicated his entire life trying to overthrow. An intellectually honest person would have reexamine his theory but Marx instead doubled down and wrote Das Capital.

I don’t think Karl Marx ever worked a day in his life lol.

I read this as a Highschooler and was simultaneously working for Greenpeace. The text is a joke. A woman posing as a philosopher is a more preoblematic joke. Show me one woman philospher who hasn't done something great like invent the Chocolate Chip Cookie. That is on your list of woman inventions. A fucking cookie. My main feminist go to Philosopher has met and debated Jordan peterson and agreed on everything. Camille Paglia.

What a thrilling teacher!