(français / in French) Séminaire Spinoza à Paris 8, 2016-2017

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Spinoza à Paris 8 - Michel JUFFÉ 15 décembre 2016 2:01:51
Spinoza à Paris 8 - Julie Henry 16 février 2017 1:52:40
Spinoza à Paris - Henri Laux 16 mars 2017 1:51:07
Spinoza à Paris 8 - Kim Sang Ong Van Cung 27 avril 2017 2:03:12
Spinoza à Paris 8 - Alain Badiou 18 mai 2017 1:43:56

(français / in French) Colloque International Spinoza France États-Unis, Paris, 3-4 juin 2016

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source: Spinoza à Paris 8     2016年6月17日
Si la philosophie ignore les nationalités, elle n’ignore pas les langues. Ainsi se créent des traditions d’interprétation qui partagent des références communes, et dont les différences rendent nécessaires les confrontations. Le développement des études spinozistes aux États-Unis, dans les dernières décennies, selon des perspectives historiques, ontologiques, logiques, morales et politiques souvent profondément renouvelées, justifiait l’organisation d’une discussion avec les interprètes français contemporains, héritiers de la tradition spinoziste française. Le Colloque International Spinoza France États-Unis sera le lieu d’une telle rencontre, à la fois amicale et scientifique.

Though philosophy may not know nationalities, it does know languages. It is in this manner that traditions of interpretation are created, traditions that share common references but whose differences make their confrontations necessary. The development of Spinoza research in the United States over the last decades, from often profoundly renovated historical, ontological, logical, moral, and political perspectives, justifies the organization of a discussion with contemporary French interpreters of Spinoza, heirs to the French Spinozist tradition. The International Conference Spinoza France États-Unis will be the site for such a discussion, both friendly and scientific.

Spinoza France États-Unis: Ouverture - Danielle TARTAKOWSKY et Fabienne BRUGÈRE 14:23
Ouverture - Accueil des participants 6:39
Edwin CURLEY et Pierre-François MOREAU 58:58
Yitzhak MELAMED et Mogens LAERKE 1:00:22
Steven BARBONE et Laurent BOVE 58:53
Michael ROSENTHAL et Jacqueline LAGRÉE 1:01:21
Knox PEDEN et Pascale GILLOT 54:27
Daniel GARBER et Chantal JAQUET 1:04:05
Michael DELLA ROCCA et Pascal SÉVÉRAC 1:10:28
Alison PETERMAN et Jack STETTER 1:04:26
Simon DUFFY et Céline HERVET 56:30
Steven NADLER et Lorenzo VINCIGUERRA 59:11
Hasana SHARP et Ariel SUHAMY 59:45
Jonathan ISRAEL et Charles RAMOND 54:04

(Español / in Spanish) Séminaire Spinoza à Paris 8, 2015-2016

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Spinoza à Paris 8 - Frédéric LORDON 12 novembre 2015 2:02:04
Spinoza à Paris 8 - Chantal JAQUET 10 décembre 2015 1:56:26
Spinoza à Paris 8 - Catherine MALABOU 29 janvier 2016 1:35:38
Spinoza à Paris 8 - Dritan KARADAKU 7 avril 2016 1:54:29
Spinoza à Paris 8 - Bruno LATOUR 19 mai 2016 2:07:24

(Español / in Spanish) Spinoza (Séminaire 2014-2015)

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Spinoza à Paris 8 - Pina TOTARO 23 avril 2015 2:07:50
Spinoza à Paris 8 - Blandine KRIEGEL 25 juin 2015 2:09:16
Spinoza à Paris 8 - Warren MONTAG 21 mai 2015 2:19:31
Spinoza à Paris 8 - Pascale GILLOT 9 avril 2015 2:02:42
Spinoza à Paris 8 - André TOSEL 19 mars 2015 1:50:59
Spinoza à Paris 8 - Pierre-François MOREAU 26 février 2015 2:01:53
Spinoza à Paris 8 - Laurent BOVE 11 décembre 2014 1:58:24
Spinoza à Paris 8 - Ivan SEGRÉ 13 novembre 2014 1:53:21

The Life & Thought of Spinoza

source: Philosophical Overdose     2017年1月10日
In this short BBC episode of In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dutch Jewish Philosopher Baruch Spinoza. For the radical thinkers of the Enlightenment, he was the first man to have lived and died as a true atheist. For others, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he provides perhaps the most profound conception of God to be found in Western philosophy. He was bold enough to defy the thinking of his time, yet too modest to accept the fame of public office and he died, along with Socrates and Seneca, one of the three great deaths in philosophy. Baruch Spinoza can claim influence on both the Enlightenment thinkers of the 18th century and great minds of the 19th, notably Hegel, and his ideas were so radical that they could only be fully published after his death. But what were the ideas that caused such controversy in Spinoza’s lifetime, how did they influence the generations after, and can Spinoza really be seen as the first philosopher of the rational Enlightenment? With Jonathan Rée, historian and philosopher and Visiting Professor at Roehampton University; Sarah Hutton, Professor of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth; John Cottingham, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0079ps2
"God or Nature"

Free Will & Determinism

source: Philosophical Overdose     2015年10月2日
Do we have free will and what does this even mean? Is free will possible within a deterministic universe? What about an indeterministic universe? Does the concept of free will even make sense to begin with? And what are the implications for morality and the value of life? Could we actually live our lives on the assumption that free will is an illusion? These are some of the questions which are discussed in this program.
Free will is one of the most absorbing philosophical problems, debated by almost every great thinker of the last two thousand years. In a universe apparently governed by physical laws, is it possible for individuals to be responsible for their actions? Or are our lives simply proceeding along preordained paths? Determinism - the doctrine that every event is the inevitable consequence of what goes before - seems to suggest so. Many intellectuals have concluded that free will is logically impossible. The philosopher Baruch Spinoza regarded it as a delusion. Albert Einstein wrote: "Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion." But in the Enlightenment, philosophers including David Hume found ways in which free will and determinism might be reconciled. Recent scientific developments mean that this debate remains as lively today as it was in the ancient world.
This is from the BBC radio program "In Our Time". Melvyn Bragg discusses the problem of free will with Simon Blackburn (University of Cambridge), Helen Beebee (University of Birmingham), and Galen Strawson (University of Reading).

The Philosophy of Spinoza & Leibniz (Subtitles Available)

source: Philosophical Overdose    2016年8月30日
Bryan Magee and Anthony Quinton discuss the 17th-18th century philosophers Spinoza and Leibniz. Both were rationalists who developed elaborate philosophical systems out of only a few basic principles of logic/reason, but ended up with quite different views. Spinoza was a monist and pantheist. He identified everything with one substance, what he called "God or Nature", and understood everything as a mere aspect or mode of this great unity of existence. Thus, there is ultimately only one true entity or being for Spinoza. He also rejected free will, any personal conception of God, as well as purpose within the world, leading many to think of him as an atheist. Leibniz, on the other hand, embraced plurality in his metaphysical system. He posited an infinite array of indivisible substances he called "monads" which were immaterial, incorporeal, mind-like points. Since these were taken to be fundamental, Leibniz was something of an idealist or panpsychist. The existence of matter was taken to be derivative, a mere appearance of something ultimately mental or quasi-mental in nature. And like Spinoza, he was also a determinist who thought that everything had to have a cause and complete explanation, leaving no genuine room for objective randomness or chance. Both thinkers were extremely influential, not only on other philosophers, but on scientists as well.

This interview is from a 1978 BBC program. Subtitles/transcript is available. This is a re-upload which has much better quality. I just fixed it so that the audio and video don't go out of sync. In any case, this is a very good introduction to Spinoza and Leibniz, and is definitely worth checking out.

Anne Dufourmantelle. The History of Sexuality in Philosophy: The Seventeenth Century. 2011

source: European Graduate School    2011年12月13日
http://www.egs.edu Anne Dufourmantelle, philosopher, psychoanalyst and author, talking about the non-relationship between sexuality and philosophy in the Baroque era and seventeenth century. In this lecture, Anne Dufourmantell discusses neurosis, literature, the illusion of truth, the symptomatology of consciousness, sadism, masochism, sexual freedom and the psychoanalytic conception of a cure in relationship to Peter Sloterdijk, Miguel de Cervantes, Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, Baruch Spinoza, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Marquis de Sade and René Descartes focusing on Don Quixote, desire, trauma, sublimation, the animal, the infinite body, the political subject and the Other. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Anne Dufourmantelle.

Anne Dufourmantelle, Ph.D., is a French psychoanalyst, philosopher and author. Anne studied medicine and philosophy for two years in Paris and completed her doctorate (Ph.D) at Paris-IV university (Sorbonne). Her thesis was entitled : La vocation prophétique de la philosophie (The Prophetic Vocation of Philosophy) with studies on Soeren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emmanuel Levinas and Patocka. It was published some years later by les éditions du Cerf and received the Academie Française for philosophy. During Anne's studies at la Sorbonne, she had the opportunity to take one year off to study "humanities" at Brown university, with Georges Morgan. She translated Nelson Goodman's _Language of Art_, and and wrote an essay on "The Structure of Appearance," which would lead her, upon returning to France, to teach at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris La Villette (School of Architecture (UP6) of La Villette, for five years a seminar on Aesthetics and "thinking architecture". This experience also drove Anne to publish some dialogues between architects and philosophers, such as, for example, between Christian de Portzamparc and Philippe Sollers (2004) or between Jean Baudrillard and Jean Nouvel (2000). Then Anne went on to direct a non-fiction collection as a publisher for Calmann-Levy on the field of philosophy. Anne studied with Jacques Derrida whom she had just met ("On Hospitality", Calmann-Levy, 1998 -- 17 translations), and also Vaclav Havel, Alain Didier-Weill, Alessandro Baricco, Julia Kristeva, Antonio Negri, George Steiner, Peter Sloterdijk, Frédéric Boyer, Belinda Cannone, etc... (more than 50 books published since). Then Anne left Calmann-Levy and continued with Stock (also in the Hachette group) the same type of collection, untitled "L'autre pensée", again in the field of philosophy, publishing thinkers like Slavoj Zizek, Noam Chomsky, Jacques Derrida again, Avital Ronell (2 books translated) -- Theodor Adorno, Rabaté, as well as some texts in psychoanalysis, literature studies, anthropology, sociology.

A History of Philosophy--Arthur Holmes at Wheaton College

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01 The Beginning of Greek Philosophy 49:18
02 The Moral Universe in the Pre-Socractics 1:03:18
03 The Greek Sophists 49:56
04 Plato's Epistemology 59:39
05 Plato's Theory of Forms 56:40
06 Plato on God 54:42
07 God and Plato on the Human Soul 1:05:27
08 Plato's Ethics 43:47
09 Plato (conclusions) and Aristotle's Metaphysics 1:01:17
10 Aristotle's Metaphysics 1 56:57
11 Aristotle's Metaphysics 2 51:42
12 Aristotle's God 1:00:02
13 Aristotle's Epistemology and the Human Soul 1:03:13
14 Aristotle's Ethics 49:28
15 Epicurean Philosophy 1:02:50
16 Stoicism 1:03:32
17 Greek and Roman Skepticism 57:11
18 Middle and Neo-Platonism 56:07
19 Neo-Platonism and the Church Fathers 1:01:44
20 Augustine and Neo-Platonism 47:35
21 Augustine's Christian Philosophy 1:02:25
22 Early Medieval Philosophy 1:04:57
23 Problem of Universals 1:02:37
24 Thomas Aquinas' Christian Aristotelianism 41:17
25 Aquinas on God 1:03:17
26 Aquinas' Moral Psychology and Ethics 58:53
27 Duns Scotus and William of Ockham 1:00:17
28 Summing Up Ockham's Revolution 59:36
29 Francis Bacon 1:01:26
30 Thomas Hobbes 1:02:28
31 Descartes 1:00:23
32 Descartes' Meditations 1 57:53
33 Descartes' Meditations 2 35:48
34 Descartes on God and Nature 1:01:00
35 Descarte's Moral & Psychological Ethics 56:20
36 Spinoza 1:03:08
37 Reason and Emotions in Spinoza 1:01:23
38 Spinoza (continued), Leibniz 1:07:32
39 Leibinz's "Monads" 1:01:27
40 Leibniz on Evil 58:40
41 John Locke 44:32
42 John Locke's Theory of Ideas 1:06:05
43 Locke on Religion, Ethics, and Politics 1:06:25
44 George Berkeley's Idealism 1:00:00
45 Berkeley Replies to Objections 1:04:16
46 David Hume 1:02:15
47 Hume: Do We Know What's Real? 1:04:35
48 Hume on Religion and Ethics 1:01:12
49 Reactions to David Hume 1:01:27
50 Scottish Realism 1:01:43
51 Introducing Immanuel Kant 1:04:22
52 Kant's Epistemology 1:02:37
53 Kant on Understanding 1:04:04
54 Kant on Metaphysics 1:00:58
55 Kant's Ethics 1:06:34
56 German Idealism 1:01:40
57 Hegel 1:02:03
58 Hegel's Phenomenology of the Mind 1:00:56
59 Hegel on Absolute Spirit 1:05:56
60 Post-Hegelian Idealism 39:59
61 Whitehead's Process Philosophy 1:03:56
62 Whitehead and Process Theology 1:04:03
63 Whitehead's "Science and Modern World" 1:05:04
64 American Pragmatism 1:06:09
65 John Dewey 59:59
66 Dewey's "Reconstructive Philosophy" 1:02:42
67 Introduction to Existentialism 1:03:23
68 Historical Roots of Existentialism: Kierkegaard 1:02:59
69 Nietzsche and Introduction to Phenomenology 1:02:10
70 Husserl and Heidegger 1:01:42
71 Jean-Paul Satre 1:05:09
72 Other Phenomenologists 1:01:29
73 19th Century Empiricism 1:00:52
74 Bertrand Russell -- Logical Atomism 45:32
75 Ludwig Wittgenstein 51:31
76 Logical Positivism 57:28
77 A.J. Ayer — Language, Truth and Logic 1:05:01
78 Ordinary Language Philosophy 1:00:48
79 Ethics Since Logical Positivism 1:04:39
80 Philosophy of Language 1:00:31
81 Philosophy Today and Tomorrow 52:40

Alain Badiou. The Philosophical Question of Change Within Greek Antiquit... (2012)

source: European Graduate School      2013年1月23日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the philosophical concept of change within Greek antiquity. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the relationship between change and negation, the empirical and universal experience of change, the identity of being and thinking, the relationship between being and becoming and Aristotle's question concerning a prime mover and causality in relationship to Parmenides, Baruch Spinoza, Gilles Deleuze, Friedrich Nietzsche, Heraclitus, Aristotle and Immanuel Kant
focusing on poetry, being qua being, negativity, the One, pure affirmation, the inexistence of negation, dialectics, double negation, the proof of God's existence, perfection, contradiction and subjectivity. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2012. Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou. The Ontology of Multiplicity: The Singleton of The Void. 2011

source: European Graduate School       2012年1月4日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about three possibilities concerning an absolute beginning. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the singleton of the void, the absolute difference between zero and one, returning to classicism, naming and exteriority in relationship to Plato, René Descartes, Georg Cantor, Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze focusing on pure difference, affirmation, repetition, succession, novelty, god, capitalism, corruption, immaterial images, infinite price, minimum difference and love. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou. Toward A Positive Definition of The Infinite. 2011

source: European Graduate School      2011年12月16日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about a positive form of the dialectical relation between the finite and infinite. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the distinction between finite and infinite possibilities, immanent infinity as life potency, different types of infinity, and the complete separation between the infinite and the One in relationship to Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Alexandre Koyré, Auguste Comte, Georg Cantor, Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze focusing on being, existence, the One, immortality, physics, capitalism, humanity, equality, God, Christianity, affirmation and virtuality. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou. Infinity and Set Theory: How To Begin With The Void. 2011

source: European Graduate School       2012年1月2日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the relationship between the finite and infinite in the context of set theory. In this lecture, Alain Badiou recapitulates the struggle between reactive classicism and reactive romanticism, new humanism, grace and immanent life and goes on to discuss set theory and the paradox of beginning with nothing in relationship to Plato, René Descartes, Georg Cantor, Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze focusing on being, existence, the One, affirmation, subjectivity, the trace, the void, absolute beginning, the empty set, indeterminacy and omega. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou. Infinity and Set Theory: Repetition and Succession. 2011

source: European Graduate School     2012年1月2日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the operation of succession and naming in set theory. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses nothingness and infinity as two forms of being, the materiality of names, creative repetition and the matheme of the infinite in relationship to Plato, René Descartes, Georg Cantor, Jacques Lacan, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze focusing on being, existence, negation, affirmation, the indefinite, the encore, creative repetition, subjectivity, weak and strong infinity, omega, Faust, jouissance and woman. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou. Questions Concerning The Infinite. 2011

source: European Graduate School       2012年1月4日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, answers students' questions on infinity. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses three historical sequences of the infinite, the philosophy of life, the dialectical relationship between infinity and finitude, distinctions between infinities and set theory in relationship to Plato, René Descartes, Georg Cantor, Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Karl Marx and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel focusing on hubris, science, Christianity, totality, God, capitalism, the One, void, being, existence, truth, subjectivity, dialectics, Greek tragedy, perfection and affirmation. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Alain Badiou.

Alain Badiou. Different Philosophical Orientations Toward The Infinite. ...(2011)

source: European Graduate School      2011年12月16日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about four different philosophical choices concerning infinity. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the possibility to maintain or suppress the relationship between the One and infinite, pure multiplicity without an immanent or transcendent reference to the One, and the faithful subject in relationship to Plato, Georg Cantor, René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze focusing on nihilism, capitalism, the weak and poor god, nature, paganism, truth, life, affirmation and reactive subjectivity. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Alain Badiou.

Giorgio Agamben. What is a Dispositive? 2005 (1 to 8)

source:  European Graduate School     Last updated on 2012年8月23日
http://www.egs.edu/ Giorgio Agamben, Italian professor and philosopher, presenting the text What is a Dispositive? Che cosè un dispositivo?, analyzing the proliferation of dispositives, desubjectification, discussing the history and origins of the term dispositive, linguistics, terminology, philosophy, theological genealogy of the economy, religion, relevance as well as Michel Foucault, Immanuel Kant, Baruch Spinoza, and Martin Heidegger. Free public open video philosophy and politics lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2005, Giorgio Agamben.