History of Philosophy Audio Archive

Continuation of 135a

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“The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites—day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.”

-C. G. Jung, Man and His Symbols, 1964

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Lionel Corbett

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(00:00:00): Intro

(00:00:52): Milton and Power

(00:45:31): The Infant Cry of God

(01:33:38): Credible Employment

(02:24:03): Poetry and Virginity

(03:15:35): Poetry and Marriage

(04:02:57): Lycidas

(04:55:10): Lycidas Part II

(05:48:09): Areopagitica

(06:35:08): Paradise Lost Book I

(07:26:50): God and Mammon

(08:17:49): Miltonic Smile

(09:03:49): The Blind Prophet

(09:51:35): Paradise Lost Book III

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A study of Milton's poetry, with some attention to his literary sources, his contemporaries, his controversial prose, and his decisive influence on the course of English poetry.

Description courtesy of Yale University, presented Fall 2007, uploaded November 2008. I opted to split this otherwise 19 hour episode into two parts so Spotify can handle it. See 135b.

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Original YouTube Playlist (Milton with John Rogers):

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John Rogers, Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, retired.

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Talk Originally Titled “Deconstructing Racism and Sexism in the Envisagement of Western Civilization”

The use of the phrase “all men are created equal” was probably not a deliberate attempt to make a statement about women. It was just that women were beyond consideration as worthy of inclusion. They were politically invisible. Though practical needs gave women a certain authority in the home, on the farm, or in occupations like midwifery, they were simply overlooked in any consideration of political rights, any notions of civic equality.-Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States, 1980⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_United_State-//-

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“On the other hand, if an experience arouses curiosity, strengthens initiative, and sets up desires and purposes that are sufficiently intense to carry a person over dead places in the future, continuity works in a very different way. Every experience is a moving force.”

-John Dewey, Experience and Education, 1938

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“All conservative ideologies justify existing inequities as the natural order of things, inevitable outcomes of human nature. If the very rich are naturally so much more capable than the rest of us, why must they be provided with so many artificial privileges under the law, so many bailouts, subsidies and other special considerations - at our expense? Their "naturally superior talents" include unprincipled and illegal subterfuge such as price-fixing, stock manipulation, insider training, fraud, tax evasion, the legal enforcement of unfair competition, ecological spoliation, harmful products and unsafe work conditions. One might expect naturally superior people not to act in such rapacious and venal ways. Differences in talent and capacity as might exist between individuals do not excuse the crimes and injustices that are endemic to the corporate business system.”

― Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds, 1997

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Original YouTube (1988)

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“The Great Way is not difficult, for those who have no preferences"

-Xinxin Ming, Tang Dynasty Chan Buddhist Poem

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“The [music of the] Blues is relevant today because when we look down through the corridors of time, the black American interpretation of tragicomic hope in the face of dehumanizing hate and oppression will be seen as the only kind of hope that has any kind of maturity in a world of overwhelming barbarity and bestiality. That barbarity is found not just in the form of terrorism but in the form of the emptiness of our lives - in terms of the wasted human potential that we see around the world. In this sense, the blues is a great democratic contribution of black people to world history.” 
-Cornel West, Democracy Matters, 2004

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Published March 2022 by The New School:

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“Destroying hope is a critically important project. And when it is achieved, formal democracy is allowed—even preferred, if only for public relation purposes. In more honest circles, much of this is conceded. Of course, it is understood much more profoundly by beasts in men's shapes who endure the consequences of challenging the imperatives of stability and order.”

-Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival, 2003