Why wildfires are necessary - Jim Schulz

source: TED-Ed     2016年2月2日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-wildfir...
Our early ancestors relied on lightning to cause forest fires, from which they could collect coals and burning sticks to help them cook food and clear land. Yet, it wasn’t just humans who benefited from these natural phenomena. Even as they destroyed trees, fires also helped the forests themselves. Jim Schulz outlines the benefits of wildfire.
Lesson by Jim Schulz, animation by Provincia Studio.

Jean François Lyotard (2015) by Daniel Bonevac at the U of Texas at Austin

source: Daniel Bonevac   2015年11月30日
Lecture 34 of Ideas of the Twentieth Century, Fall 2015.

Ideas of the Twentieth Century (Fall 2015) by Daniel Bonevac at the U of Texas at Austin

# automatic playing for the 49 videos (click the up-left corner for the list)

source: Daniel Bonevac    2015年8月28日

L1 The Problem of Normativity--Hume, Underpants Gnomes, and the Is Ought Gap 43:18
L1 The Problem of Normativity--Hume, Underpants Gnomes, and the Is Ought Gap 43:18
L2 Manifest and Scientific Images 13:59
L2 Matthew Arnold's poem, "Dover Beach" 19:00
L2 Friedrich Nietzsche 9:56
L3 Dostoevsky's "Grand Inquisitor" chapter of The Brothers Karamazov 49:52
L4 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, "A Scandal in Bohemia" 41:22
L5 The Industrial Revolutions 25:21
L5 George Bernard Shaw, "Maxims for Revolutionists," from Man and Superman 30:07
L6 Art and Photography by Roy Flukinger, Senior Research Curator, Harry Ransom Center. 45:37
L7 Woodrow Wilson and Progressivism 49:20
L8 World War I 47:00
L9 Marx and Lenin 50:42
L10 Painting and Photography 1900-1920 49:04
L11 The 1920s and Calvin Coolidge 15:40
L11 William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming" and "Sailing to Byzantium" 32:49
L12 Rudyard Kipling 43:57
L13 T S Eliot, The Waste Land 49:08
L14 F Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise 45:30
L15 Bloomsbury 37:33
L16 Sigmund Freud on the Interpretation of Dreams 43:56
L17 Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author 44:22
L18 Art and Photography Between the Wars by Roy Flukinger, Senior Research Curator, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin 49:08
L19 Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 39:21
L20 Mussolini's Fascism 45:47
L21 The Depression 45:13
L22 Stalin 47:23
L23 W H Auden 26:51
L24 Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön 29:38
L25 Toward Munich and War 24:33
Lectures 23-25 The Rise of Hitler 59:44
L26 World War II Begins 25:47
L27 Existentialism 21:14
L28 C S Lewis, Men Without Chests 30:26
L27/L28 World War II 1939 1941 19:28
L29 World War II 1942 1945 38:34
L29 Iris Murdoch, Under the Net 44:29
L30 Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of the Forking Paths 46:32
L31 The Cold War 48:57
L31 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind 16:17
L32 American Foreign Policy, 1950 1970 51:31
L33 John Rawls 13:57
L34 W V Quine on the Indeterminacy of Translation 7:15
L34 Jean François Lyotard 35:48
L35 Postwar U S Political and Cultural Changes 38:38
L36 Joan Didion on Morality and Self Respect 19:06
L37 Iris Murdoch, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, "Axioms, Duties, Eros" 4:05
L37 J K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 23:20
L37 The 1980s Counterrevolution 14:34

Consumer Culture/Materialism--Lecture by Professor Hollie Martin (HD)

source: Glendale Community College    2014年1月9日
You enter the dizzying space called the shopping center. You gather as many goods as your budget (if you keep one) will allow (making a list, checking it twice). You (considering yourself nice rather than naughty) celebrate your excursion and delight in your new, shiny stuff. What is wrong with this picture? Professor Hollie Martin (Glendale College English Department) takes a look at how our stuff may be impacting us more than we realize.

World Views and Values by Gregory B. Sadler

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source: Gregory B. Sadler     上次更新日期：2015年4月27日
Lecture videos created for my online World Views and Values class, currently taught in a 10-week (9 thinker/text) version for Marist College, and coming this summer in a 12-week (12 thinker/text) version for Oplerno.
In the current class, we cover the following 9 philosophers: Plato, Epictetus, Boethius, Descartes, Hobbes, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Marx, King. We'll be adding 3 additional thinkers in the expanded class: Aristotle, Freud, and Arendt.

Plato, Republic (lecture 1) 18:52
Plato, Republic (lecture 2) 26:07
Plato, Republic (lecture 3) 26:48
Plato, Republic (lecture 4) 26:34
Plato, Republic (lecture 5) 22:24
Plato, Republic (lecture 6) 34:48
Epictetus, Discourses (lecture 1) 26:42
Epictetus, Discourses (lecture 2) 28:26
Epictetus, Discourses (lecture 3) 29:33
Epictetus, Discourses (lecture 4) 33:31
Epictetus, Discourses (lecture 5) 31:11
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (lecture 1) 25:39
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (lecture 2) 26:05
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (lecture 3) 32:13
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (lecture 4) 27:25
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (lecture 5) 22:45
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (lecture 6) 39:53
Descartes, Discourse on Method (lecture 1) 33:01
Descartes, Discourse on Method (lecture 2) 30:20
Descartes, Discourse on Method (lecture 3) 30:43
Descartes, Discourse on Method (lecture 4) 24:41
Descartes, Discourse on Method (lecture 5) 27:54
Descartes, Discourse on Method (lecture 6) 31:31
Hobbes, Leviathan (lecture 1) 30:29
Hobbes Leviathan (lecture 2) 35:34
Hobbes Leviathan (lecture 3) 28:12
Hobbes Leviathan (lecture 4) 23:36
Hobbes Leviathan (lecture 5) 20:47
Hobbes Leviathan (lecture 6) 24:19
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (lecture 1) 30:30
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (lecture 2) 33:08
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (lecture 3) 26:25
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (lecture 4) 24:36
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (lecture 5) 46:03
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (lecture 6) 37:44
Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women (lecture 1) 26:29
Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women (lecture 2) 25:07
Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women (lecture 3) 25:36
Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women (lecture 4) 34:16
Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women (lecture 5) 35:40
Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women (lecture 6) 23:45
Karl Marx (and Engels), The Communist Manifesto (lecture 1) 34:49
Karl Marx (and Engels), The Communist Manifesto (lecture 2) 39:22
Karl Marx (and Engels), The Communist Manifesto (lecture 3) 22:51
Karl Marx (and Engels), The Communist Manifesto (lecture 4) 24:05
Karl Marx (and Engels), The Communist Manifesto (lecture 5) 31:16
Karl Marx (and Engels), The Communist Manifesto (lecture 6) 25:21
Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail (lecture 1) 32:24
Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail (lecture 2) 22:11
Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail (lecture 3) 32:16
Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail (lecture 4) 30:31
Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail (lecture 5) 22:22

Karl Marx (and Engels), The Communist Manifesto [1-6] by Gregory B. Sadler

source: Gregory B. Sadler    2015年5月4日
This is a lecture video developed for my online World Views and Values class currently in session at Marist College. In this portion of the class, we are reading, examining, and discussing portions of Karl Marx's works, Estranged Labor and The Communist Manifesto.
This video introduces students to that work and thinker, focusing particularly on the genre of the work, the cultural and historical context, and some of the key themes.
The course itself is intended to introduce students without a background in philosophy to some of the key texts, authors, perspectives, and concepts of the History of Ideas, with a particular focus upon human nature, culture and society, and the reality underlying and encompassing human beings and their experiences.
Intro music is Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, performance placed in the public domain by MusOpen

Explaining Postmodernism: Full Audiobook by Stephen Hicks

source: CEE Video Channel    2013年6月10日
To listen to a specific chapter of the audiobook on YouTube, visit: http://www.youtube.com/user/EPAudiobook
To download MP3s of the audiobook or for more information, visit Dr. Stephen Hicks's Explaining Postmodernism page: http://www.stephenhicks.org/publicati...

Postmodernism by Stephen Hicks at Rockford University (1-2)

source: Atlas Society    2015年3月1日
Are truth, knowledge, and objective reality dead?
Postmodernism became the leading intellectual movement in the late twentieth century. It has replaced modernism, the philosophy of the Enlightenment. For modernism’s principles of objective reality, reason, and individualism, it has substituted its own precepts of relative feeling, social construction, and groupism. This substitution has now spread to major cultural institutions such as education, journalism, and the law, where it manifests itself as race and gender politics, advocacy journalism, political correctness, multiculturalism, and the rejection of science and technology.
At the 1998 Summer Seminar of the Institute for Objectivist Studies (now called The Atlas Society), Dr. Hicks offered a systematic analysis and dissection of the Postmodernist movement and outlined the core Objectivist tenets needed to rejuvenate the Enlightenment spirit.
Part 2 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bChKo...

ABOUT STEPHEN HICKS:
Stephen Hicks is a Canadian-American philosopher who teaches at Rockford University, where he also directs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Hicks earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Guelph, Canada, and his Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington. His doctoral thesis was a defense of foundationalism.
Hicks is the author of two books and a documentary. "Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault." He argues that postmodernism is best understood as a rhetorical strategy of intellectuals and academics on the far-Left of the political spectrum to the failure of socialism and communism.
His documentary and book "Nietzsche and the Nazis" is an examination of the ideological and philosophical roots of National Socialism, particularly how Friedrich Nietzsche's ideas were used, and in some cases misused, by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis to justify their beliefs and practices. This was released in 2006 as a video documentary and then in 2010 as a book.
Additionally, Hicks has published articles and essays on a range of subjects, including free speech in academia, the history and development of modern art, Ayn Rand's Objectivism, business ethics, and the philosophy of education, including a series of YouTube lectures.
Hicks is also the co-editor, with David Kelley, of a critical thinking textbook, "The Art of Reasoning: Readings for Logical Analysis."

Ravi Zacharias: Postmodernism and Philosophy

source: Ligonier Ministries   2015年5月29日
This message will define postmodernism, summarize its basic views of knowledge, language, meaning, truth, etc., and explain why Christians should be familiar with it.
This message is from our 2007 National Conference, Contending for the Truth http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...
Purchase this conference on DVD: http://www.ligonier.org/store/contend...

(2015上-學院) 智慧財產權法--劉瀚宇/空中進修學院 (1-18)

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source: 華視教學頻道   2015年9月11日
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