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Philosophy in different ages has been called the queen of the sciences, thinking about thinking or simply the love of wisdom. Here is a world index of philosophers<\/a> <\/a>Here we’ll mainly treat it as critical thinking about schools and systems of ideas in a rational and inquiring way that widens our horizons. Most of all, we’ll pay attention to Marx’s 11th Thesis on Feuerbach: ‘Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. the point, however, is to change it.<\/strong><\/em>‘<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Philosophy of  Antonio Gramsci<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seven Short Video Lectures by Eric Hobsbawm. For a 90-minute film on Gramsci’s life done in Scotland for television, go HERE<\/a><\/strong>. For a 30-min BBC program, go HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE SUBALTERN IN GRAMSCI<\/a> <\/strong>By Andy Merrifield. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gramsci saw the whole of the Italian \u201cSouth\u201d as a kind of goblin, as a character who got and keeps getting a bad rap, like Rumpelstiltskin. In late 1926, a month or so prior to his arrest, he was at work on a long essay about the Italian South, ‘Some Aspects on the Southern Question’. The piece was never completed; it was rudely interrupted; and while there\u2019s a lot left dangling, there\u2019s plenty for us still to glean. It’s important for uniting workers with peasants andf oppressed nationalities.<\/p>\n\n\n

A DUTY TO ONE’S SELF; African philosophical values of harmony and vitality have much to offer our thinking about what we owe to ourselves<\/strong>. By Thaddeus Metzis, research professor of philosophy at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. …<\/p>\n

“The South African theologian Desmond Tutu has provided a specific interpretation of harmonizing with others within an ubuntu ethical framework. The word \u2018ubuntu\u2019 means humanness, and in his book No Future Without Forgiveness (1999), Tutu says this of its understanding by indigenous Southern Africans:<\/p>\n

“Ubuntu \u2026 speaks of the very essence of being human. When we want to give high praise to someone we say, \u2018Yu, u nobuntu\u2019; \u2018Hey, he or she has ubuntu.\u2019 This means they are generous, hospitable, friendly, caring, and compassionate \u2026 It is not \u2018I think therefore I am.\u2019 It says rather: \u2018I am human because I belong.\u2019 I participate, I share \u2026 Harmony, friendliness, community are great goods. Social harmony is for us the summum bonum \u2013 the greatest good.” ACCESS HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

Socrates Would Be Pleased:<\/strong> With a class of college students and inmates, teaching philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest and hopeful provocation. Access Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Communist Manifesto<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The famous booklet by Marx and Engels in 10 Video Lectures. Access Here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n





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Hegel and Marx<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three video lectures by Peter Singer, Princeton University. Access Here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Hegelian was Marx? A contribution to the history of Marx and Young Hegelianism: An essay by Jason Devine. ACCESS PDF HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n




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Marcuse and the Student Revolts of 1968: An Unpublished Lecture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From May 1968, never previously published in full, Marcuse discusses the student revolts in Paris and Berlin. Access Here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Practice by Mao Zedong<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the Relation Between Knowledge and Practice, Between Knowing and Doing. Full text,  45 min audio. Access Here<\/strong><\/a> Also, ‘The contributions of Mao Zedong to Marxism-Leninism’ summarizes other works HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alain Badiou. What is Philosophy? What Is To Be Done?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

13 Video Lectures by the widely discussed French ‘post-Maoist’ mathematician and philosopher. Each lecture is 60-90 minutes long and can be viewed separately, in batches, or in total. FREE DOWNLOAD of ‘Time of Riots’ HERE<\/a><\/strong> <\/a> For the videos, Access Here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eastern Philosophy: A 3-Part Survey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What motivations underlie human behavior? This series examines the genesis of spiritual thought of nations including China, Japan & India. This philosophical journey examines the doctrines of Confucianism, Shinto, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Islam. Part 2 <\/a>and Part 3 <\/a>are here. Part one to the right. Each is about 45 minutes. Access Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Philosophy in America, American Philosophers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A 75-minute documentary film, in eight parts, surveying various questions of thought, but in the American grain, by several current American philosophers. For a deeper look at Charles Sanders Pierce as the ‘American Aristotle, go HERE<\/a><\/strong>. For the film, Access Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nagarjuna, Sunyata and Quantum Mechanics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A presentation by Georges Dreyfus, professor of religion at Williams College, on Nagarjuna, the ancient Buddhist master of dialectics.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Sartre: ‘Human, All Too Human’<\/strong> Episode 3 of the BBC series: ‘The Road to Freedom<\/em>‘ describes the life of the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre<\/a>. This is when the term existentialism<\/a><\/em> begins to enter the realm of philosophy. The 45-minute documentary shows that Sartre believes it is up to each human being to give his or her life meaning and purpose, as well as his connection with Marxism. ACCESS HERE<\/a><\/strong> One of Sartre’s most widely read early works is ‘Existentialism Is a Humanism’<\/em> Here is a guide for students<\/a> on the work and its times.<\/p>\n

David Schweickart: Collected Articles<\/a><\/strong> on Political Philosophy in the 21st Century.<\/p>\n

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Zizek: Living in the End Times<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In a major new analysis of our global situation, Slavok \u017di\u017eek argues that our collective responses to economic Armageddon correspond to the stages of grief: ideological denial, explosions of anger, and attempts at bargaining, followed by depression and withdrawal. After passing through this zero point, we can begin to perceive the crisis as a chance for a new beginning. Or, as Mao Zedong put it, “There is great disorder under heaven, the situation is excellent.” Access Here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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THE ‘RACIAL CONTRACT’ EMBEDDED IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY<\/a>.<\/strong> Over a long career as a public intellectual, Charles Mills used his gut-punching wit and moral clarity to defend racial justice\u2014an essay in Dissen<\/em>t.<\/p>\n

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