It's finally here, and we're just getting started: Book I of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy with a new intro by me.

(00:00:00) - Historical Introduction

(00:22:54) - Note on Translation & Performance

(00:26:16) - Book 1

(01:03:23) - Outro

Please consider purchasing the book that inspired this project, the Ignatius Critical Edition translated by Scott Goins and Barbara H. Wyman:

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Full Text of the Cooper Translation:

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(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:01:55) - Staloff on Eliade

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Bluesky:

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Darren Staloff:

https://hamilton.center.ufl.edu/people/darren-staloff/

Mircea Eliade:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mircea_Eliade

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Hang in there.

Original Video, Published Feb 2014

https://youtu.be/EwPCJ9WpH7E

Thank you to Wheaton College for recording and uploading this talk.

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We did it! 100 reviews on Spotify!

To celebrate, we are kicking off an open-source audiobook project celebrating Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, a deathbed prose poem written at the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the birth of what is (somewhat unfortunately, but not for no reason called) the Dark Ages.

00:00:00 Announcement

00:08:36 Scholarly Introduction to the Consolation

This introduction is found in the Ignatius Critical Edition of Boethius, and the public domain text we will be using for the reading is the WV Cooper translation which can be found here:https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924073630026&seq=11

We must needs densify the social fabric, compadres...

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“This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But you have to choose: live or tell.”

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea, 1938.

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00:00:00 Intro

00:00:33 Sartre: Life and WW2

00:30:33 The Emotions and Responsibility

01:00:28 Phenomenology & Consciousness

01:30:54 Bad Faith and Inauthenticity

02:01:14 Being-for-Others & "No Exit"

02:31:14 Love & the Romantic Life

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"In the realm of religion, people are ruled by a product of their own heads, and it is just so in capitalist production, except that here people are ruled by the products of their own hands." 

Karl Marx, "Capital Volume One", translated by Paul Reitter, edited by Paul North.

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Leave a review! Once we get to 100 I'll record and release (completely gratis) an outstanding philosophy audiobook from the public domain.

Original Video

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One of my favorite things ever recorded - if you haven't already, prepare for a wild, wild, ride.

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But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul is to be expunged; this I shall do by printing in the infernal method by corrosives, which in Hell are salutary and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the infinite which was hid. If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern.

-William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790.

Original Video:

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“Change’ is the description of the adventures of eternal objects in the evolving universe of actual things.” 
― Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality 

Table of Contents:

(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:06:05) - Why All Life is Process

(00:57:00) - Evolution

(01:50:03) - Humans and their Fellow Travelers

(02:40:55) - Personal Identity

(03:29:03) - Human Nature and Human Kinds

(04:22:27) - Free Will

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