History of Philosophy Audio Archive
Curated lectures, interviews, and talks with philosophers, social scientists, and historians together in one place. Each week, we explore brand new research in history, economics, psychology, political science, philosophy, indigenous studies, and human rights while presenting the work of canonical scholars in a way that is accessible to newcomers while retaining interest for students and specialists. If you are an author in nonfiction or a scholar in the humanities/social sciences and are interested in being interviewed for the show please email me at williamengels@substack.com or @Bluesky.
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This episode is Lecture #3 of 6 in Susan Neiman's "Heroism for a Time of Victims" lecture series, part of the Gifford Lectures delivered in May 2022. The other 5 can be found in HoPAA #171.
Read about Susan Neiman's May 2022 Gifford Lecture Series "Heroism for a Time of Victims" at the Gifford Lecture blog.
View the original YouTube playlist with all six lectures (and a Q&A which I did not include)...
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Read about Susan Neiman's May 2022 Gifford Lecture Series "Heroism for a Time of Victims" at the Gifford Lecture blog.
View the original YouTube playlist with all six lectures (and a Q&A which I did not include) here.
Music Credits:
-Schubert, Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat Major by Max John
-Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat Major, Movement 2
Lecture Table of Contents:
(00:00:00) Host Intro
(00:01...
This is Part 2 of Shelly Kagan's course on YouTube/Yale Open Courseware. Part 1 is linked in the description, or you can just click here. You can support Professor Kagan by purchasing his book on Death. The original YouTube series can be found here.
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Music is Fauré Requiem, Op. 48, performed by Seiji Ozawa at the Hiroshima P...
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Music Credit (Cover of 99 Luftballons by NENA, performed by /millibeep)
https://youtu.be/gTss-rBgUl8
What the song means (Genius):
[Verse 1]If you have some time for me
Then I will sing a song for you
Of ninety-nine balloons
On their way to the horizon
...
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Podcast Sources (AI Generated, May Contain Errors):
Ada Lovelace
Source: Wikipedia: Ada Lovelace
Summary: Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She is often regarded as the first to recognize the full potential of a "computing machine"...
It's not easy being a gay brain-sex icon and a straight brain-sex icon at the same time but ya boi Byron did it. Part 1 of 2. Poll in the thing for the next topic. I will abide by the results.
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Alasdair MacIntyre's book After Virtue:
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Books and Sources Mentioned:
- Black Skins, White Masks, and The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Algerian Revolutionary Psychoanalyst)
- The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Life of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz (About Fanon)
- Congo, Inc b...
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Boethius Critical Edition I Used (Although not the Translation)
Music Credit: Schubert, Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat Major, performed by Max John
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Table of Contents Below >>>
Original Course Listing on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEA18FAF1AD9047B0
Buy Prof. Kagan's Book on Death:
About the Course (Yale)
There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact? This course will examine a number of issues that arise once we begin to reflec...
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People Mentioned:
Mahmoud Khalil
Maria Lugones
Byung-Chul Han
Lars von Trier (dir. Melancholia, 2011)
Hannah Arendt
Tyson Yunkaporta
Concepts:
Kenosis (self-emptying)
Books:
Putnam, Bowling Alone
News/References:
Zinc Mine in Georgia/https://thecurrentga.org/2025/06/20/okefenokee-mine-sale-conservation-fund/
Minister of Loneliness UK
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Photo Credit:
Morning Tai Chi by Shuolong Ma
Music Credit:
Music Copyright Kevin MacLeod
Coconut Tree Meme Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_5nHIbsjo
Books/Sources
Hans-Georg Moeller Daoism Explained
https://www.amazon.com/Daoism-Explained-Butterfly-Fishnet-Allegory/dp/0812695631
Oliver Sacks, the Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Iain McGilchrist, the Master an...
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REFERENCES:
Trump Golden Dome Cost Projection
SDI / Star Wars in the 1980s with Reagan
Costs associated with SENTINEL and ICBM Upgrades
Fallout and Downwinders, Thyroid Cancer, Nevada Test Site
At long last, Book 4 of the 5-book masterpiece, De Consolatione de Philosophiae by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius. Translated by W. V. Cooper, critical edition by Goins and Wyman.
I would describe this one as "a comfy doozy slightly too close to home."
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Breaking News.....
America has bombed 3 Iranian nuclear reactors.
Happy summer solstice.
References
Iraq 1981 Nuclear Reactor Bombing by Israel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera?wprov=sfla1
Kissinger's Flip-Flop on the Iran Deal
"Today, the standard claim is that Iran has no need for nuclear power, so it must be pursuing a secret weapons program: "For an oil producer such as Iran, n...
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Nuclear weapons in Iran, Middle East environmental crisis, Israeli grand strategy, US covert action skullduggery, and a healthy reminder that it's all just oil at the end of the day.
References
FDR and Saudi King Abdul Aziz
https://www.history.com/articles/fdr-saudi-arabia-king-oil
Nuclear Blackmail at ...
Sabrina is back for the second installment of the Documentary Doctors!
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This time we are watching (and curling up in a ball after viewing) The Act of Killing, a 2012 documentary about the massacre of the Indonesian PKI (communist party) in 1965 by Western-backed fascist paramili...
Art Credit: "Piece Offering" by Mr. Fish
https://clowncrack.com/2025/06/10/piece-offering/
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References:
Greta Thunbeg's interview on Al Jazeera youtu.be/OY38HjfrNGQ
Democracy Now youtu.be/jkKRxD8D2kU
Book about Ukraine War:
Our Enemies Will Vanish- Yaroslav Trofimov
Book about Israel Lobby: The Israel Lobby - John Mearsheimer
Osho, AKA Bhagwan, AKA Raj Rajneesh, AKA....we get it - mystic, con artist, cult leader, philosopher, terrorist, dupe? Your guess is as good as mine. Join Bhagwan Richard and myself as we explore the world of a man with 93 Rolls Royces and enough devoted worshipers to keep his toes permanently sucked and prescriptions filled.
References and Citations:
Building Utopia by Russell King
The Golden Road - William Dalrymple
The Eknath Easwa...
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