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source: Gregory B. Sadler 2012年4月1日/上次更新日期：2015年11月21日
Videos focused on Plato's philosophy.
Many of these videos are from my Ethics or Intro class sessions. They are supplemented by a number of Core Concept videos. I've also started adding some of my invited talks or conference presentations on Plato as well.
source: TED-Ed 2016年3月8日
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In ancient Greece, violent internal conflict between border neighbors and war with foreign invaders was a way of life, and Greeks were considered premier warriors. Sparta, specifically, had an army of the most feared warriors in the ancient world. What were they doing to produce such fierce soldiers? Craig Zimmer shares some of the lessons that might have been taught at Spartan school.
Lesson by Craig Zimmer, animation by TED-Ed.
source: The RSA 2016年2月11日
Individuals, communities and councils are playing an increasingly important role in shaping their local public services. Our panel will discuss how a dispersal of power and new forms of local engagement are essential in promoting democratic renewal and community resilience.
The UK is in the midst of a 'devolution revolution' - we are witnessing the increasing decentralisation of governance as Westminster grants ever more powers to regional and local bodies. In political debate, the great promise of devolution is said to be economic growth, as exemplified by the birth of the Northern Powerhouse.
However, in the rush for growth, there is a danger of overlooking other measures of success, and thereby squandering the greater social and political opportunities offered by decentralised power.
Economic connectivity without social connectivity is hollow. How can we ensure devolved governance strengthens democracy by delivering a fairer dispersal of power and promoting greater civic engagement? And how can devolution create a localism that is truly 'people shaped', in which decision-making is determined by the character, identity, assets and needs of specific communities?
As the RSA launches its report on the opportunities and challenges of bringing citizens more fully into local service design and governance, we bring together a panel of experts to explore ambitions for locally driven change.
source: Talks at Google 2016年2月2日
Author and organizational culture expert Ed Schein joined Google VP of People Development Karen May in a fireside chat at Google's Mountain View office. Schein talked about his latest project on Humble Leadership.
Edgar Schein investigates organizational culture, process consultation, research process, career dynamics, and organization learning and change. He analyzes how consultants work on problems in human systems and the dynamics of the helping process, and defines Humble Inquiry as “the fine art of drawing someone out, of asking questions to which you do not know the answer, of building a relationship based on curiosity and interest in the other person.” In this seminal work, Schein contrasts Humble Inquiry with other kinds of inquiry, shows the benefits Humble Inquiry provides in many different settings, and offers advice on overcoming the cultural, organizational, and psychological barriers that keep us from practicing it.
Schein has written two cultural case studies —“Strategic Pragmatism: The Culture of Singapore’s Economic Development Board” and “DEC is Dead; Long Live DEC." and his Corporate Culture Survival Guide tells managers how to deal with culture issues in their organizations. He shows how individuals can diagnose their own career needs and how managers can diagnose the future of jobs. His research on culture shows how national, organizational, and occupational cultures influence organizational performance.
Schein holds a BPhil from the University of Chicago, a BA and an MA in social psychology from Stanford University, and a PhD in social psychology from Harvard University.
source: Talks at Google 2016年2月2日
Norman Winarsky stops by the Googleplex in Mountain View to discuss his book, "If You Really Want to Change the World: A Guide to Creating, Building, and Sustaining Breakthrough Ventures."
Silicon Valley’s latest trend for creating new ventures is based on trial and error: test market needs with new product concepts and a minimum amount of capital, expect that the product may not meet the market need, so fail fast and try another product with the hope that a product-market fit will eventually emerge. But this fail fast, step-and-pivot philosophy is like taking a random walk in the forest without a compass.
Henry Kressel and Norman Winarsky—technologists, inventors, and investors with stellar track records—provide a guide for those who wish to create a market-leading company that will have a real impact: a disciplined and staged approach they have used to launch, invest in, and develop scores of highly successful companies.
"If You Really Want to Change the World" leads entrepreneurs through the critical stages of venture development, from concept to acquisition or public offering to maintaining a rich culture of innovation in the company. It is a guide by innovators for innovators, with approaches that are practical and timeless.
Drawing on the authors’ experiences as well as those of their partners from around the world, Kressel and Winarsky share the stories of their triumphs and misses, demonstrate their method in action, and inspire their readers in the process. There are more opportunities now than ever before to build breakthrough companies that touch millions of lives. If this is your goal, let this book be your guide to creating world-changing ventures.
source: European Graduate School 2013年2月6日 http://www.egs.edu/ Alenka Zupancic, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst, discusses Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener, I would prefer not to, Immanuel Kant and infinite judgment, Gilles Deleuze, Stéphane Mallarmé, place, and nihilism. This is the ninth lecture of Zupančič's 2011 summer course at the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2011 Alenka Zupancic.
Alenka Zupančič, Ph.D., is a Lacanian philosopher and social theorist, based as a full-time researcher in the philosophy department of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She was born in 1966 in Slovenia. Alenka received her Ph.D. from the University of Ljubljana in 1990 and currently is a member of the Ljubljana School for Psychoanalysis. At the European Graduate School, she holds a position as a lecturer where she teaches an intensive summer seminar on Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.
source: LA Review of Books 2015年3月23日
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LARB's Philosophy & Critical Theory editor Arne De Boever interviews Judith Butler about her 2015 CalArts lecture series, Demonstrating Precarity: Demonstrating Precarity: Vulnerability, Embodiment, and Resistance.
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source: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies 2013年9月30日
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies Presents:
What Good are the Humanities for Development Studies
Speaker: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Chair: Rajeev Bhargava
Date: Monday, 5 August, 2013
Venue: CSDS Seminar Hall, 29 Rajpur Road 110054
Abstract: The proper training of the Humanities is our best weapon for producing problem-solvers rather than solving problems. If they are acknowledged as imaginative activism, rearranging desires, building the possibility of constructing self and world differently as objects of knowing, producing the intuitions of democracy outside of the demands of electoral politics; the power and difficulties of the task emerge. To implement this is an uphill road, since the priorities for developing societies seem to be located elsewhere. My paper will consider this problem as practically as possible, considering, along the way, such typical criticisms as individualism, mere liberalism, etc. I will be attentive to the fact that this Center has successfully studied "Development" for half a century.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor at Columbia University. Her latest books are Other Asias and An Aesthetic Education in An Era of Globalization. She has 5 honorary doctorates. She is the 2012 laureate of the Kyoto Prize in Art and Philosophy. She trains teachers and guides ecological agriculture in western Birbhum district in West Bengal, India.
Rajeev Bhargava is Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.
