I commute about 50 minutes to work everyday and i listen to one of these videos on the way there and the way back i re listen. Its honestly the best part of my day
I read Staloff’s book _The Making of an American Thinking Class_ some years ago and assumed that he was a specialist in colonial-era American intellectual history. I did not know that he had all of this additional knowledge about intellectual history in general. These lectures are all wonderful and delivered with marvelous clarity. They’re a joy to watch, even those whose content I was already familiar with before watching (as I was not in the case with this particular lecture on Kant).
@@dr.michaelsugrue I would love to hear a conversation between you two. On nothing in particular, perhaps on what you both find interesting or most worth conversing about. Nevertheless, thank you for the lectures!
President Woodrow Wilson read Kant, the League of Nations, that is where it began. Interesting analogy. Immanuel Kant was born at Knonigsberg, Prussia, in 1724. Except for a short per of tutoring in a nearby village, this quiet little professor, who loved to lecture on the geography and ethnologhy of distant lands, never left his native city. He came from a poor family that had left Scotland some hundred years before his birth. His mother was a Pietist, --i. e., a member of a religious sect which , like the Methodists of England, insisted on the full strictness and rigor of religious practice and belief. Kant had been so immersed in religion which led him to stay away from church all through his adult life;and on the other hand he kept to the end the Sombrero stamp of the German Purtian, and as he grew old, a great longing to preserve for himself and the world the essentials, at least of the faith so deeply inculated him by his mother. I love to understand his history of a boy to a man. But as a young man growing up in the age of Fredrick and Voltaire, he could not insulate himself from the skeptical current at the time. Kant was profoundly influenced even by men he would later refute and perhaps most of all by his favorite enemy, Hume.; as Dr. Staloff has given exemplary critical analysis in this lecture, a philosopher, the conservatism of his maturity, his last work, and returning at the age of almost seventy to a virule liberalism that would have brought him martyrdom had not his age and fame protected him. Kant in 1775 began his work as a private lecturer at the University of Knonigsberg. For 15 years, he was left in this lowly post; twice his applications for a professorship was denied. At last, in 1770, he was made professor of logic and metaphysics. At the age of 42, he wrote: " I have found the fortune of metaphysics;but my mistress has shown me few favors yet." During his quiet years, he wrote on planets, earthquakes, ethnaolgy, and a hundred other things of that sort, not usually confounded with metaphysics. (Actually, I think he was a better teacher than a writer) His Theory on the Heavens(1755) proposed something similar to the nebulae hypothesis of Laplace and attempted a mechanical of all sidewalk motion and development His" Anthropology"(put together in 1798 from his lectures of his lifetime suggested the possibility of animal origin of man. Kant would argue that if the human infant, in early ages when man were left to the early ages when man was still largely at the mercy of wild animals, had cried as loudly upon entering the world as it does now, it would be found out and eaten by birds of prey. And that in all probability, therefore man was very different at first from which he had become under civilization. And then Kant went on subtly: " How nature brought about such a development and by which causes aided, we know not. This remark carries us a long way. It suggests the thought of whether it was present period of history, on the occasion of some great physical revolution, mat not be followed by a third, when an orang-outang or a chimpanzee would develop the organs for walking, touching, speaking, into the articulated structure of a human being, with a central organ for understanding and gradually advance the training of social institutions. " Was this use of the future tense, Kant's cautiously indirect way of how man really developed from the beast? By the way , he never married. He came close twice, but his slowness to both women allowed them to move on. He resolved himself to be a loner and write as a philosopher. That he most certainly did and shook the world with "The Critique of Pure Reason." And on down the line with his writings. Each philosophy one could write a huge book on. Thanks again for your lectures.
Potentially blocked off/hiding due to woke ideology. Sugrue has spoken on ‘wokeism’ being menace in academia if I’m not mistaken After all, Jordan Peterson came to fame because of his unwillingness to submit to someone’s pronoun claims
is an analytic a posteriori statement possible? i know traditionally not, but isn’t adding to a definition an analytic judgement? for example. at first, magnets were things that point to the north. then later, through science, the definition of magnet was improved. magnets were now things that pointed north and responded with a force to magnetic currents. so isnt that an analytic a posteriori statement? a statement about the definition of magnets that couldnt have been made before sensory experience?
Oh yeah ... and post-1989? Those coming from the East to the West were dumbfounded at the life their free cousins lived--while the West was pretty clueless as to what 40 years of mindf*ing can do to a human soul.) Individual must trump all.
You know, as progressive as this sounds, I'm hearing a lot of "all of this is good because it makes you militarily stronger. Cultural and scientific developments are good because they make you militarily stronger" I guess all other trades are contained the the art of war.
I commute about 50 minutes to work everyday and i listen to one of these videos on the way there and the way back i re listen. Its honestly the best part of my day
You're good people!
I read Staloff’s book _The Making of an American Thinking Class_ some years ago and assumed that he was a specialist in colonial-era American intellectual history. I did not know that he had all of this additional knowledge about intellectual history in general. These lectures are all wonderful and delivered with marvelous clarity. They’re a joy to watch, even those whose content I was already familiar with before watching (as I was not in the case with this particular lecture on Kant).
It is a valuable book. Dr. Staloff has what jazz musicians used to call "chops".
@@dr.michaelsugrue -- I see that. Thank you for uploading these lectures, Dr. Sugrue. I hope there will be more of them.
Attempting to digest these videos are the best part of my day
I’m glad to know I’m not alone in this.
Hahah yeah same
Sean O Malley got his stuff together 🙏🏽 good for him
Lol
LMAO
Staloff is a natural philosopher. In fact I'd be interested to know his own personal synthesis of knowledge.
Hell no 💀
@@coolhandphilip We should push the podcast getting him as a guest. It would be amazing listen him talk to Sugrue.
Holy Mackerel, two videos in one day! Dr. Sugrue, you are on a roll here!
His daughter is the one uploading these
Dr. Staloff is my hero!
Mine too.
@@dr.michaelsugrue I would love to hear a conversation between you two. On nothing in particular, perhaps on what you both find interesting or most worth conversing about. Nevertheless, thank you for the lectures!
@@wanderingdude. they should talk about Heidegger, Nietzsche, Rousseau, Leo Strauss. Figures not uploaded enough on this channel, if at all
@@lukajung9051 or maybe Carl Jung.. he hasn't made an appearance yet
President Woodrow Wilson read Kant, the League of Nations, that is where it began. Interesting analogy.
Immanuel Kant was born at Knonigsberg, Prussia, in 1724. Except for a short per of tutoring in a nearby village, this quiet little professor, who loved to lecture on the geography and ethnologhy of distant lands, never left his native city. He came from a poor family that had left Scotland some hundred years before his birth. His mother was a Pietist, --i. e., a member of a religious sect which , like the Methodists of England, insisted on the full strictness and rigor of religious practice and belief. Kant had been so immersed in religion which led him to stay away from church all through his adult life;and on the other hand he kept to the end the Sombrero stamp of the German Purtian, and as he grew old, a great longing to preserve for himself and the world the essentials, at least of the faith so deeply inculated him by his mother. I love to understand his history of a boy to a man.
But as a young man growing up in the age of Fredrick and Voltaire, he could not insulate himself from the skeptical current at the time. Kant was profoundly influenced even by men he would later refute and perhaps most of all by his favorite enemy, Hume.; as Dr. Staloff has given exemplary critical analysis in this lecture, a philosopher, the conservatism of his maturity, his last work, and returning at the age of almost seventy to a virule liberalism that would have brought him martyrdom had not his age and fame protected him.
Kant in 1775 began his work as a private lecturer at the University of Knonigsberg. For 15 years, he was left in this lowly post; twice his applications for a professorship was denied. At last, in 1770, he was made professor of logic and metaphysics. At the age of 42, he wrote: " I have found the fortune of metaphysics;but my mistress has shown me few favors yet."
During his quiet years, he wrote on planets, earthquakes, ethnaolgy, and a hundred other things of that sort, not usually confounded with metaphysics. (Actually, I think he was a better teacher than a writer)
His Theory on the Heavens(1755) proposed something similar to the nebulae hypothesis of Laplace and attempted a mechanical of all sidewalk motion and development
His" Anthropology"(put together in 1798 from his lectures of his lifetime suggested the possibility of animal origin of man. Kant would argue that if the human infant, in early ages when man were left to the early ages when man was still largely at the mercy of wild animals, had cried as loudly upon entering the world as it does now, it would be found out and eaten by birds of prey. And that in all probability, therefore man was very different at first from which he had become under civilization. And then Kant went on subtly: " How nature brought about such a development and by which causes aided, we know not. This remark carries us a long way. It suggests the thought of whether it was present period of history, on the occasion of some great physical revolution, mat not be followed by a third, when an orang-outang or a chimpanzee would develop the organs for walking, touching, speaking, into the articulated structure of a human being, with a central organ for understanding and gradually advance the training of social institutions. " Was this use of the future tense, Kant's cautiously indirect way of how man really developed from the beast? By the way , he never married. He came close twice, but his slowness to both women allowed them to move on. He resolved himself to be a loner and write as a philosopher. That he most certainly did and shook the world with "The Critique of Pure Reason." And on down the line with his writings. Each philosophy one could write a huge book on.
Thanks again for your lectures.
There should be a study with how this channel will influence the world 🌎
it's definitely influencing my world!
It's like, "The Velvet Underground and Nico" of philosophy channels. I wish Mike was still here to appreciate that comment! Cheers everyone.
Fantastic presentation.
I can eat this up all day. I love me some Kant.
This is gold
Will there be an episode about Butterfield's "Whig interpretation of history"?
As far as I know, Kant's metaphysics is ahistorical. How can we reconcile that with his view of teleology?
where are the teachers who lecture like this today?!?
Potentially blocked off/hiding due to woke ideology. Sugrue has spoken on ‘wokeism’ being menace in academia if I’m not mistaken
After all, Jordan Peterson came to fame because of his unwillingness to submit to someone’s pronoun claims
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is an analytic a posteriori statement possible? i know traditionally not, but isn’t adding to a definition an analytic judgement? for example. at first, magnets were things that point to the north. then later, through science, the definition of magnet was improved. magnets were now things that pointed north and responded with a force to magnetic currents. so isnt that an analytic a posteriori statement? a statement about the definition of magnets that couldnt have been made before sensory experience?
Given that it isn't the same statement, I would say no. The "magnet-in-itself" remained the same, the definition didn't
How optimistic.
I think progress could be made by decentralisation of our institutions with technology
Yeah.. I've recently in the last few years begun saying that "decentralization and centralization" is the new "good and evil" in the new world order.
What would Heidegger say
You can't decentralize mass production. All human social and economic momentum is subject to world industry.
Institutions wield power and power is centeralized by its very nature
Oh yeah ... and post-1989? Those coming from the East to the West were dumbfounded at the life their free cousins lived--while the West was pretty clueless as to what 40 years of mindf*ing can do to a human soul.) Individual must trump all.
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You know, as progressive as this sounds, I'm hearing a lot of "all of this is good because it makes you militarily stronger. Cultural and scientific developments are good because they make you militarily stronger"
I guess all other trades are contained the the art of war.
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Only if y’all knew Jonathan pageau
Medieval, Dark Ages, really..?
Consider releasing these less frequently. More time to think about each. More special too.
Yes but what if there was one of Rousseau we have yet to see?
You could just not watch them until you've digested the one prior
@@andrewbowen2837 lol true
Has anyone ever told you that you killed the vibe before? These videos can't come fast enough! 😩
what a peculiar non sequitur
Ah, the Academy before it fell to The Great Pestilence. We really had a nice thing going there for a while. 🥹