Stoïcisme (3) Ethique stoïcienne de la bonne ...

Lecture et commentaire libre d'un extrait du texte de Simone Weil paru en 1942 et intitulé De l'attention (1942). Je vous partage, non pas un plan intégralement rédigé, mais un effort de problématisation tous azimuts, des débuts de définitions, des rappels méthodologiques utiles. ...  Show more

Lecture commentée d'un texte de Simone Weil sur l'Etat et la guerre, extrait des Réflexions sur les causes de la liberté et de l'oppression sociale (1934). Sont aussi cités : Marshall Sahlins, Age de Pierre, âge d'abondance, 1972. James C. Scott, Homo domesticus, une histoire pro ...  Show more

On The Basis of Morality (1840), Part III: "The Founding of Ethics," Ch. 5: "Statement and Proof of the Only True Moral Incentive." Everything up to this point in the book has been negative: Morality can't be founded on pure reason as Kant thinks, or on the idea of the good life ...  Show more

Join Dr. Junius Johnson and Fr. Wesley Walker as they discuss Artistotle's famous treatise on virtue: The Nicomachean Ethics. How can we be happy? What is virtue and how do we acquire it? Why do friends matter? Listen to find out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discus ...  Show more

Today we talk about the philosophical themes that Dostoevsky had in mind when writing Crime and Punishment. We talk about Russian Nihilism and its consequences. Rational Utilitarianism and Egoism. A common misunderstanding of Raskolnikov as an embodiment of Nietzsche's work. Conf ...  Show more

This week, we approach one of the most infamous ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche: the dual-prehistory of the morality we follow today. Throughout his career, Nietzsche had an inkling that the origins of our moral ideas did not follow a clean, neat pattern -- a single course of develo ...  Show more