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Hubert Dreyfus - Heideggers Later Works (Part 1)
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00:00 - Session 10: Idea for a Universal History
01:13:51 - Session 11: Conjectural Beginning of Human History
02:36:23 - Session 12: Theory and Practice
03:56:43 - Session 13: The End of All Things
05:11:49 - Session 14: Perpetual Peace
06:25:25 - Session 15: Perpetual Peace
07:38:06 - Session 16: Perpetual Peace
08:59:13 - Session 17: Discussion
01:14:46 - Session 2: Critique of Pure Reason
02:30:43 - Session 3: Critique of Pure Reason
03:48:23 - Session 4: Critique of Pure Reason
05:01:37 - Session 5: Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
06:18:51 - Session 6: Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
07:34:35 - Session 7: Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
09:01:40 - Session 8: Critique of Practical Reason
10:03:19 - Session 9: What is Enlightenment?
Part 2: youtu.be/SCI7nOJtt5A
The historical analysis will serve as a means to address fundamental issues in international relations theory. Can war occur even if no one truly desires it? Is war always the result of aggression, or can nations inadvertently slip into armed conflict? What impact do nuclear weapons have on international politics? Are they a source of stability, or did the stable peace during the Cold War period have little to do with nuclear weapons?
Additionally, what does the history we explore reveal about the effects of different political systems? For instance, do democracies pursue a particular kind of policy, and if so, does that policy promote peace or instability? We will tackle these questions by examining specific historical contexts rather than addressing them directly.
Part 1: youtu.be/O4_QGZKnT-4
00:00 - 1946-47
00:44:54 - 1948-49 (I)
01:34:10 - 1948-49 (II)
02:25:09 - 1949-54
03:55:13 - 1954
04:39:55 - 1953-58
05:30:39 - Nuclear sharing
06:20:55 - 1961-62
07:10:27 - 1962-63
07:51:59 - 1963-75
08:38:39 - 1963-91
The Origins of the Second World War by A.J.P. Taylor: amzn.to/3Yn68Hj
Going to War with Japan by Jonathan Utley: amzn.to/3WFBFD9
A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement by Marc Trachtenberg: amzn.to/3WFjMo9
The historical analysis will serve as a means to address fundamental issues in international relations theory. Can war occur even if no one truly desires it? Is war always the result of aggression, or can nations inadvertently slip into armed conflict? What impact do nuclear weapons have on international politics? Are they a source of stability, or did the stable peace during the Cold War period have little to do with nuclear weapons?
Additionally, what does the history we explore reveal about the effects of different political systems? For instance, do democracies pursue a particular kind of policy, and if so, does that policy promote peace or instability? We will tackle these questions by examining specific historical contexts rather than addressing them directly.
00:00 - Origins of the First World War
01:34:25 - First World War
02:23:08 - Paris Peace Conference (I)
03:11:45 - Paris Peace Conference (II)
04:01:55 - 1919-23
04:50:58 - 1923-32
05:08:53 - 1933-36
05:59:28 - 1936-39
06:48:21 - Taylor
07:31:51 - 1939-41
08:22:33 - 1941
09:13:47 - 1945
Part 2: youtu.be/lthQXqjAy8M?feature=shared
The Origins of the Second World War by A.J.P. Taylor: amzn.to/3Yn68Hj
Going to War with Japan by Jonathan Utley: amzn.to/3WFBFD9
A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement by Marc Trachtenberg: amzn.to/3WFjMo9
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John J. Mearsheimer: amzn.to/3A9jvRm
00:28:32 - Das Problem des Menschen (1952)
On Cosmogonic Eros by Ludwig Klages: amzn.to/472cDBy
On the Nature of Consciousness by Ludwig Klages: amzn.to/3tN2y6x
00:15:00 - Erinnerung an Kubin (1958)
00:43:20 - Interview zum 70. Geburtstag (1965)
01:09:10 - Forscher und Liebhaber (1965)
01:46:20 - Bunter Staub (1967)
01:57:18 - Festakt zu Ehren von Friedrich Georg Jünger (1968)
02:13:52 - Rede bei der Verleihung des Goethepreises (1982)
02:22:22 - Interview anlässlich des Besuches von J. L. Borges (1982)
02:31:19 - Nachtrag zu Autor und Autorschaft (1994)
02:59:04 - Tiger Meskalin mit Albert Hofmann (1995)
Lecture 2 - Lord Acton on Revolution: 00:43:47
In Rights Under Two Revolutions, Kirk compares the French Revolution and the American struggle for rights under English law that led to the formation of the United States.
In Lord Acton on Revolution, Kirk gives a series of reflections on Lord Acton’s enduring contributions to our understanding of freedom, expressing great appreciation for Acton’s view that “liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience,” and that, “It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together.”
In his early writings, Acton would refer to revolutions as “a malady, a frenzy, an interruption of the nation’s growth, sometimes fatal to its existence, often to its independence,” agreeing with Edmund Burke that the French Revolution was “the enemy of liberty.”
Lecture 2 - Yeats’ Holy City of Byzantium: 00:48:17
Lecture 3 - William Blake – Prophetic Voice of England: 01:56:29
W. B. Yeats & the Learning of the Imagination by Kathleen Raine: amzn.to/3nDsHo6
Golgonooza, City of Imagination by Kathleen Raine: amzn.to/33Q4FPP
Blake and Tradition by Kathleen Raine: amzn.to/3GII0mP
Blake and Antiquity by Kathleen Raine: amzn.to/3GHKqlS
Socialism was more ambiguous. Fascism did not become a wicked right-wing kind of ideology until the Nazis and Mussolini allied. The Bolshevists merely fumbled around. The Communist Party was a joke until the 30s when they were viewed as a force against fascists and were seen as a workers’ party. They were big winners after WWII.
Totalitarian movements are all pretty much the same. They are dead ends and generally have to be forcibly removed. But, the Soviet Union did not fall apart because of any invasion, it simply imploded from within. The Chinese government has evolved into something less brutal. Controlled thought is the main characteristic of totalitarian states. It is the way the left operates.
Fascism: The Career of a Concept by Paul Gottfried: amzn.to/3KqV1Un
Antifascism: The Course of a Crusade by Paul Gottfried: amzn.to/3KzjeIv
War and Democracy by Paul Gottfried: amzn.to/3FDkW7S
After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State by Paul Gottfried: amzn.to/3GIKcL5
Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Toward a Secular Theocracy by Paul Gottfried: amzn.to/3FDGst5
A coalition against fascists arose. Social democrats made common cause with the communists. There is reason to suspect that Stalin knew what he was doing bringing Hitler to power. Since the 1930s the enemy of the left has been fascism. The social democrats successfully split from the communists. The end of the cold war looks like the end of WWII. The left won the cold war. The right disappeared.
Fascism: The Career of a Concept by Paul Gottfried: amzn.to/3KqV1Un
Antifascism: The Course of a Crusade by Paul Gottfried: amzn.to/3KzjeIv
War and Democracy by Paul Gottfried: amzn.to/3FDkW7S
After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State by Paul Gottfried: amzn.to/3GIKcL5
Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Toward a Secular Theocracy by Paul Gottfried: amzn.to/3FDGst5
Lecture 8: 00:00
Lecture 9: 01:38:49
Lecture 10: 03:24:29
Lecture 11: 05:00:16
Lecture 12: 06:42:36
Lecture 13: 08:31:00
Required readings:
Plato's Apology and Crito: amzn.to/2OHXbXr
Aristophanes' Clouds, Birds, and Wasps: amzn.to/3rLnhHy
Lecture 2: 01:29:15
Lecture 3: 02:59:21
Lecture 4: 04:37:32
Lecture 5: 05:45:31
Lecture 6: 07:38:57
Lecture 7: 09:07:05
Lecture 8-13: youtu.be/3ON9IMMAfPk
Required readings:
Plato's Apology and Crito: amzn.to/2OHXbXr
Aristophanes' Clouds, Birds, and Wasps: amzn.to/3rLnhHy
Part 2 - A Talk with Students at the Institute (German): 01:40:32
Part 3 - At the Basel Psychology Club (German): 05:07:23
Part 4 - Kaarle Nordenstreng Interview (English): 06:28:48
English transcripts for parts 2 and 3 can be found here: amzn.to/3qIf5YO
Lecture 7 - Worldhood II: 00:00
Lecture 8 - Involvement and Significance: 01:18:47
Lecture 9 - Significance: 02:39:23
Lecture 10 - Das Man: 03:57:09
Lecture 11 - Intro I: 05:18:21
Lecture 12 - Intro II: 06:34:37
Lecture 13 - Death: 07:55:26
Lecture 2 - Dasein: 01:17:17
Lecture 3 - Being: 02:21:05
Lecture 4 - Being in the World I: 03:29:23
Lecture 5 - Being in the World II: 04:57:03
Lecture 6 - Worldhood I: 06:10:43
Lecture 7-13: youtu.be/ngPsLq_tTEM
Lecture 2 - The Humane Economists: Ludwig von Mises, Wilhelm Roepke, & F.A. Hayek: 01:03:46
Lecture 2 - Democracy Fails in Europe: 00:22:28
Lecture 3 - Neo-Liberalism and Neo-Conservatism: 01:05:58
Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Times by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn: amzn.to/2SMopuD
Democracy's Road to Tyranny by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn: fee.org/articles/democracys-road-to-tyranny
Menace of the Herd or Procrustes at Large by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn: archive.org/details/MenaceOfTheHerd
Leftism Revisited: From De Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn: amzn.to/3mqUyoB
Democracy – The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order by Hans-Hermann Hoppe: amzn.to/2T6L0Cw
Lecture 6 - The Production of Law and Order: Natural Order, Feudalism, and Federalism: 00:00
Lecture 7 - Parasitism and the Origin of the State: 01:24:45
Lecture 8 - From Monarchy to Democracy: 02:56:46
Lecture 9 - State, War, and Imperialism: 04:16:34
Lecture 10 - Strategy: Secession, Privatization, and the Prospects of Liberty: 05:36:38
Lecture 2 - The Spread of Humans Around the World: The Extension and Intensification of the Division of Labor: 01:16:32
Lecture 3 - Money and Monetary Integration: The Growth of Cities and the Globalization of Trade: 02:20:01
Lecture 4 - Time Preference, Capital, Technology, and Economic Growth: 03:32:01
Lecture 5 - The Wealth of Nations: Ideology, Religion, Biology, and Environment: 04:43:50
Lecture 6-10: youtu.be/5kFkBAkc7cs
Cederberg had interviewed Jünger eight years earlier but only in text. Jünger had declined to participate in the film project, but the film team still decided to travel to the village Wilflingen, where Jünger lived, and make an attempt. As a gift, they gave Jünger, known for his interest in botany and zoology, an 18th-century print of Carl Linnaeus' Systema Naturae, and were granted an interview.
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Title: 102 år i hjärtat av Europa: ett porträtt av Ernst Jünger
Director: Jesper Wachtmeister
Co-director: Björn Cederberg
Production: Fredrik Martin for Martin & Co Filmproduktion, Cecilia Cederström
Cinematography: Pelle Källberg, Jesper Wachtmeister
Editing: Jesper Wachtmeister
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Books by Ernst Jünger:
War as an Inner Experience: amzn.to/3sFKyM3
Copse 125: amzn.to/3aMWYed
Fire and Blood: amzn.to/3wXuFCW
A German Officer in Occupied Paris: amzn.to/38ouWmU
Eumeswil: amzn.to/3rfa0Y3
The Forest Passage: amzn.to/2WyX7tW
Approaches: Drugs and Ecstatic Intoxication: archive.org/details/ApproachesDrugsAndEcstaticIntoxicationErnstJunger1/page/n3/mode/2up
The Worker: amzn.to/2LVGNBi
The Glass Bees: amzn.to/3pafWj9
The Adventurous Heart: Figures and Capriccios: amzn.to/34sMcGb
On Pain: amzn.to/3mAKkBB
Aladdin's Problem: amzn.to/2XVXjnA
A Dangerous Encounter: amzn.to/39Q9NT5
Sturm: amzn.to/35YB2tH
On the Marble Cliffs (out of print): archive.org/details/ErnstJungerOnTheMarbleCliffsbOk.xyz
Hic lapis exilis extat, pretio quoque vilis, spernitur a stultis, amatur plus ab edoctis. (Here stands the mean, uncomely stone, 'Tis very cheap in price! The more it is despised by fools, The more loved by the wise.)
A dedication is also inscribed on this side of the stone:
IN MEMORIAM NAT[ivitatis] S[uae] DIEI LXXV C G JUNG EX GRAT[itudine] FEC[it] ET POS[uit] A[nn]O MCML (In memory of his 75th birthday, C.G. Jung out of gratitude made and set it up in the year 1950.)
The second side of the cube depicts Jung's Telesphoros figure, bearing a lantern and wearing a hooded cape. It is surrounded by a Greek inscription:
«Ὁ Αἰὼν παῖς ἐστι παίζων, πεττεύων· παιδὸς ἡ βασιληίη» · Τελεσφόρος διελαύνων τοὺς σκοτεινοὺς τοῦ κόσμου τόπους, καὶ ὡς ἀστὴρ ἀναλάμπων ἐκ τοῦ βάθους, ὁδηγεῖ «παρ' Ἠελίοιο πύλας καὶ δῆμον ὀνείρων».
"Time is a child — playing like a child — playing a board game — the kingdom of the child. This is Telesphoros, who roams through the dark regions of this cosmos and glows like a star out of the depths. He points the way to the gates of the sun and to the land of dreams."
"Time is a child at play, gambling; a child's is the kingship" is a fragment attributed to Heraclitus.
"He points the way to the gates of the sun and to the land of dreams" is a quote from the Odyssey (Book 24, Verse 12). It refers to Hermes the psychopomp, who leads away the spirits of the slain suitors.
The second side also contains a four-part mandala of alchemical significance. The top quarter of the mandala is dedicated to Saturn, the bottom quarter to Mars, the left quarter to Sol-Jupiter [male], and the right quarter to Luna-Venus [female].
The third side of the cube is the side that faces the lake. It bears a Latin inscription of sayings which, Jung says, "are more or less quotations from alchemy."
The inscription reads:
I am an orphan, alone; nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known neither father nor mother, because I have had to be fetched out of the deep like a fish, or fell like a white stone from heaven. In woods and mountains I roam, but I am hidden in the innermost soul of man. I am mortal for everyone, yet I am not touched by the cycle of time.
Lecture 2 - Thomas Taylor the Platonist: 00:50:10
Lecture 3 - The Imagination According to William Blake: 01:46:50
Lecture 4 - Shelley as a Mythological Poet: 02:45:59
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W.B. Yeats and the Learning of Imagination by Kathleen Raine: amzn.to/3gzzJVI
Thomas Taylor the Platonist ed. by Kathleen Raine: amzn.to/3eH0NAv
Blake and Tradition by Kathleen Raine: amzn.to/2TXGmYc
Shelley, The Poems of Percy Bysshe ed. by Kathleen Raine: amzn.to/36Lqqh5
"The difficulty of philosophy is the expression of what is self-evident." ― A. N. Whitehead
The Archetypal Process: Self and Divine in Whitehead, Jung, and Hillman, ed. by David Ray Griffin: amzn.to/3gEa1PR
Lecture 6 - Authentic Temporality, the Phenomenon: 00:00
Lecture 7 - Temporality of Being-in-the-World: 01:01:53
Lecture 8 - The Ordinary Conception of Time: 02:31:18
Lecture 9 - Temporalität, Basic Problems: 04:42:04
Lecture 10 - Ontological Difference, Basic Problems: 06:52:19
Required text:
Being and Time by Martin Heidegger: amzn.to/2tTkoYT
Recommended texts:
Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division I by Hubert Dreyfus: amzn.to/2Tlp496
Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge by Charles Guignon: amzn.to/2XFNgSe
The Basic Problems of Phenomenology by Martin Heidegger: amzn.to/2XHFqYa
Heidegger's 'Being and Time': A Reader's Guide by William Blattner: amzn.to/2SnLAdT
Heidegger: An Introduction by Richard Polt: amzn.to/2UriElA
Lecture 2 - Guilt and Resoluteness: 01:43:51
Lecture 3 - Being-towards-Death: 03:50:57
Lecture 4 - Anticipatory Resoluteness: 06:03:24
Lecture 5 - Temporality and Historicity: 08:15:53
Lecture 6-10: youtu.be/Omf_0-nA-KI
Required text:
Being and Time by Martin Heidegger: amzn.to/2tTkoYT
Recommended texts:
Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division I by Hubert Dreyfus: amzn.to/2Tlp496
Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge by Charles Guignon: amzn.to/2XFNgSe
The Basic Problems of Phenomenology by Martin Heidegger: amzn.to/2XHFqYa
Heidegger's 'Being and Time': A Reader's Guide by William Blattner: amzn.to/2SnLAdT
Heidegger: An Introduction by Richard Polt: amzn.to/2UriElA
"This is our birthright. It is profoundly our birthright in the same way that our sexuality is our birthright. The notion that a person would call themselves intelligent and aware and present in the world and that they would go from the cradle to the grave without ever having a psychedelic experience is nothing short of obscene; it's absurd. It makes my flesh crawl in the same way that celibacy and virginity make my flesh crawl. What a horrible, horrible waste of a human life." - Terence McKenna
Lecture 9: 00:00
Lecture 10: 01:30:55
Lecture 11: 03:01:03
Lecture 12: 04:31:41
Lecture 13: 06:00:23
Lecture 14: 07:31:00
Lecture 15: 08:51:04
Lecture 16: 10:21:06
Transcript: wslamp70.s3.amazonaws.com/leostrauss/s3fs-public/Plato%27s%20Apology%20%26%20Crito%20%281966%29_0.pdf
Lecture 2: 01:29:45
Lecture 3: 02:59:58
Lecture 4: 04:28:55
Lecture 5: 05:59:10
Lecture 6: 07:33:49
Lecture 7: 09:00:15
Lecture 8: 10:27:54
Lecture 9-16: youtu.be/Gb3P_AS4WIo
Transcript: wslamp70.s3.amazonaws.com/leostrauss/s3fs-public/Plato%27s%20Apology%20%26%20Crito%20%281966%29_0.pdf
In classical Greece, divine messages received in sanctuaries either by temple officials or laymen became the most valued channel of communication with the gods. In mystery initiations, alteration of consciousness was a means of attaining revelation leading to the peak experience, defined by the ancients as eudaimonia, blessedness. Alterations of consciousness of several Presocratic thinkers can be assumed quite confidently. Plato’s Socrates alluded to out-of-body experiences, and his prolonged trance-like meditations could only happen in an altered state of consciousness. Plato’s writings suggest that he had undergone mystical experiences himself.
Modern research on altered states of consciousness demonstrates that in many cases these experiences involve the sensation of ineffable revelation of superhuman truth. The cross-cultural propensity to manipulate consciousness is a part of human natural potential. These states are multifarious, can involve various subjective and objective manifestations, and may be induced by many methods. The natural tendency to enjoy alteration of consciousness and trust the accompanying visions is usually limited or suppressed with the transition from traditional to complex societies, but Greece was a rare exception. The reason for this uniqueness is the absence of rigid priestly authority and lack of ability or desire to interfere on the part of political powers. As a consequence, the Greeks made the most of the alterations of consciousness that many of them experienced, and developed social mechanisms that allowed successful exploitation of these phenomena. In the unique historical situation of archaic and classical Greece, notions and practices which in later periods would be defined as esoteric, largely belonged to the mainstream culture.
Divine Mania: Alteration of Consciousness in Ancient Greece by Yulia Ustinova: amzn.to/2UKDIVk
Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind: Descending Underground in the Search for Ultimate Truth by Yulia Ustinova: amzn.to/2ULZAzN