i'm as taken by the elegant simplicity of the structure of this introduction as i am by your personal anecdotes and way of being. thank you, dr. wolff! i hope you keep putting more lectures out there, this series is very useful
Dear Professor Wolff, you and people like you such as Chomsky live forever. I’m watching your videos (Kant, game theory, Marx, and now Freud, here in Hong Kong in the summer of 2021. Trump is gone, and I, not exactly a leftist, am telling everybody I can get hold of to watch your videos. I do not see eye to eye with everything you say, but there’s not the slightest doubt in my mind that you are a great lecturer, an excellent speaker, a wonderful human being, and a superb story teller. The world is a better place because of you.
How wrong you were about Trump. As it turns out, the threat of authoritarianism has been coming from the left, where they just put candidates to run for high offices without using the system of democracy at all. In this recent election, the people didn’t buy the ‘Trump is fascist’ for a moment
I have had in no way, any interest in this sort of knowledge or any history in it for that matter, but this was insanely fascinating to watch and I enjoy the way you provide lectures. I will be in your next one regarding this topic when you post it. Thanks!
Thank you for all these lectures. The ones about Kant's Critique were great! I'm listening to them for the second time. And I'm excited for these lectures about Freud and looking forward to your lectures about Marx. I really appreciate it :)
@@MacSmithVideo I’d imagine they probably would hate him too. Both writers were anti reason(ism),anti system, saw the groundlessness of being. Dr wolfs most know for his Kant.
I finish lecture 1. Like him , I interest Freud because the Frankfurt school. But I dont see a solid justificaton of psychoanalisis as a method of studying the mind and its disorders. I rather believe the actual skepticim of S. F. and psychoanalysis as Popper and M. Bunge had warned.
He has presence, is 83. But it's hard to pull off the statement 'I'm a philosopher', even when the full statement is 'I'm not a medical doctor, I'm not a psychiatrist, I'm a philosopher..'
"My name is Robert Paul Wolff and this is the first of fourth lectures on a fraud of Zigmund Freud". Please excuse me of my remark. I found lectures of Mr. Wolff very interesting and inspiring. Can't wait for his lectures on Marx.
Hello Mr Wolff, I would love to see you in a debate with Dr. Jordan B Peterson, who I think has quite opposing views than yours. I feel like in the current times there aren't too many authentic left-wing thinkers who could hold their ground in a debate, but if you feel like your views are true and authentic, and you could explain them in a reasonable manner, I would love to see two great minds fight it out for truth.
Oh shut the fk up. Jordan Peterson is a hack intellectual funded by the Koch brothers to spread neoconservative propaganda. He isn't even remotely close to being on the Wolff's level.
Prof. Wolff is an actual philosopher. I doubt he has even heard of Peterson, or cares. He studies Plato, Kant, and Marx, although is familiar with the whole history-his textbook is standard in many intro philosophy courses.
I came here to learn how to better teach Freud to my students. I learned a lot, but I wish that he didn't start out with his political beliefs and that he didn't discount civilization and its discontents. I think this guy is a very slow lecturer and spends too much time talking about random crap without making a point.
meh I liked your lectures more when you didn't try to push your political agenda down everyone's throat. At the time of the Kant lectures, when the election was still ongoing, you expressed your political views too but imo in a less forceful and more neutral way. Everyone is entitled to a political opinion but presenting it as some kind of truth without any facts to back it up make you come of as another sociology professor who is trying to push a political agenda. also since you don't seem to know what an ad hominem is here is a link that explains it so you don't have to make the mistake next time when talking about people you personally don't like: yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem
wait are you trying to teach the definition of ad hominem to a political philosopher?Not every conversation has to have an academic structure. And since political philosophy is Dr. Wolff's main contribution to the canon of western philosophy, politics lies at the very center of his work. Professor has been gracious enough to provide these free lectures, so technically no one is shoving anything down your throat. If you don't like the material you can just click away
Richard, looks you have mistaken the political anecdote as truth. Pay attention to the contrasts he makes in the first and last parts of the lecture for the correct answer.
Thanks to Prof Wolff, and everyone involved in putting up this video. It's wonderful to have the opportunity to see these.
Wolff is the best!
i'm as taken by the elegant simplicity of the structure of this introduction as i am by your personal anecdotes and way of being. thank you, dr. wolff! i hope you keep putting more lectures out there, this series is very useful
yes exactly! I loved that
I was delighted to see this pop up when searching for Freud lectures. The series on Kant was brilliant.
Brilliant lecture. Thank you. Looking forward to the remaining three.
Dear Professor Wolff, you and people like you such as Chomsky live forever. I’m watching your videos (Kant, game theory, Marx, and now Freud, here in Hong Kong in the summer of 2021. Trump is gone, and I, not exactly a leftist, am telling everybody I can get hold of to watch your videos. I do not see eye to eye with everything you say, but there’s not the slightest doubt in my mind that you are a great lecturer, an excellent speaker, a wonderful human being, and a superb story teller. The world is a better place because of you.
How wrong you were about Trump. As it turns out, the threat of authoritarianism has been coming from the left, where they just put candidates to run for high offices without using the system of democracy at all. In this recent election, the people didn’t buy the ‘Trump is fascist’ for a moment
I have had in no way, any interest in this sort of knowledge or any history in it for that matter, but this was insanely fascinating to watch and I enjoy the way you provide lectures. I will be in your next one regarding this topic when you post it.
Thanks!
Thank you for all these lectures. The ones about Kant's Critique were great! I'm listening to them for the second time. And I'm excited for these lectures about Freud and looking forward to your lectures about Marx.
I really appreciate it :)
This is the first time I listen to Lecture on Freud! Very fascinating! Many thanks, Professor!
same, watching for the second time, can't think of how a better introduction could look like. :)
very personable speaker --- which is a good thing considering how knowledgable he is
I also teach Freud in my Literary Theory classes. This lecture is stimulating.
Love this, what a salt of the earth!
Thanks, professor from Brazil !!
Thank you Mr Wolff for these highly engaging lectures on Freud Kan]t and Marx So enlightening.
Please lecture on Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
Her probably hates both of them
@@MacSmithVideo I’d imagine they probably would hate him too. Both writers were anti reason(ism),anti system, saw the groundlessness of being. Dr wolfs most know for his Kant.
Wolff likes to quote Kierkegaard, but that is not his field.
wonderful lecture. thank you so much
this is so good.
I finish lecture 1. Like him , I interest Freud because the Frankfurt school. But I dont see a solid justificaton of psychoanalisis as a method of studying the mind and its disorders. I rather believe the actual skepticim of S. F. and psychoanalysis as Popper and M. Bunge had warned.
"Incipient fascist" - great description.
He has presence, is 83. But it's hard to pull off the statement 'I'm a philosopher', even when the full statement is 'I'm not a medical doctor, I'm not a psychiatrist, I'm a philosopher..'
Daniel Langlois
Why? He works as a philosopher. People pay him to do philosophy.
there is so much more to him than just being called a philosopher, as everyone else ofcourse.
Why because he's not wearing a toga?
"My name is Robert Paul Wolff and this is the first of fourth lectures on a fraud of Zigmund Freud". Please excuse me of my remark. I found lectures of Mr. Wolff very interesting and inspiring. Can't wait for his lectures on Marx.
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Hello Mr Wolff, I would love to see you in a debate with Dr. Jordan B Peterson, who I think has quite opposing views than yours. I feel like in the current times there aren't too many authentic left-wing thinkers who could hold their ground in a debate, but if you feel like your views are true and authentic, and you could explain them in a reasonable manner, I would love to see two great minds fight it out for truth.
Oh shut the fk up. Jordan Peterson is a hack intellectual funded by the Koch brothers to spread neoconservative propaganda. He isn't even remotely close to being on the Wolff's level.
Prof. Wolff is an actual philosopher. I doubt he has even heard of Peterson, or cares. He studies Plato, Kant, and Marx, although is familiar with the whole history-his textbook is standard in many intro philosophy courses.
so many useless anecdotes, you’ll get a better experience in the Wikipedia article
I came here to learn how to better teach Freud to my students. I learned a lot, but I wish that he didn't start out with his political beliefs and that he didn't discount civilization and its discontents. I think this guy is a very slow lecturer and spends too much time talking about random crap without making a point.
It's especially disappointing given that Civilization and its Discontents was one of the best damn things that Freud ever wrote.
Have some respect. I’m surprised that you are a teacher with that kind of attitude
meh I liked your lectures more when you didn't try to push your political agenda down everyone's throat.
At the time of the Kant lectures, when the election was still ongoing, you expressed your political views too but imo in a less forceful and more neutral way.
Everyone is entitled to a political opinion but presenting it as some kind of truth without any facts to back it up make you come of as another sociology professor who is trying to push a political agenda.
also since you don't seem to know what an ad hominem is here is a link that explains it so you don't have to make the mistake next time when talking about people you personally don't like:
yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem
wait are you trying to teach the definition of ad hominem to a political philosopher?Not every conversation has to have an academic structure. And since political philosophy is Dr. Wolff's main contribution to the canon of western philosophy, politics lies at the very center of his work. Professor has been gracious enough to provide these free lectures, so technically no one is shoving anything down your throat. If you don't like the material you can just click away
Richard, looks you have mistaken the political anecdote as truth. Pay attention to the contrasts he makes in the first and last parts of the lecture for the correct answer.
@Richard, idiots like you, boy oh boy.
@@SpaceExplorer lol where is that crooked woman now hahaha
I see no issue with it because his politics is based. But I’m biased of course :)