Professor Kozlowski discusses Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, the famous Elizabethan treatment of the Faust legend by the contemporary of Shakespeare.

For anyone following along online, this reading is all of Doctor Faustus, as you can find on (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/779) .

The next session, a discussion of the 17th and 18th centuries,  will be presented as a video (link forthcoming).

Professor Kozlowski presents a crash course in the medieval worldview, in which he discusses the basic tenets of the Christian gospel, and discusses Dante's Inferno in terms of its alignment with medieval thinking as well as its anticipation of Renaissance values.

For anyone following along online, this reading is Cantos I-IV and XXXIV of  Dante's Inferno, which you can access for free at:  https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41537

The next session, a discussion of the Renaissance and Reformation, will be presented as a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfMV9cQUzhk).

Professor Kozlowski introduces this semester's accelerated section of General Humanities 2 by going over the syllabus and explaining the expectations for the class.

For anyone following along online, the first reading for the class (which corresponds to the next lecture) is Cantos I-IV and XXXIV of Dante's Inferno, which you can access for free at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41537

If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at [email protected]

Professor Kozlowski tackles listener Kit's question: What ideas did German immigrants bring to America in the 19th Century.  Predictably, the answer is neither straightforward nor simple - but Professor Kozlowski tackles the question anyhow.

If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at [email protected]

At long last, Professor Kozlowski answers the question posed by Pavel Pavlovic of Belgrade: Is the Phenomenological Reduction of Jean-Paul Sartre transgressive?  On the way, we'll talk about Bad Faith, reflective and unreflective consciousness, and positive nothingness.  Get your waders on, because we're knee-deep in Phenomenology this time around!

If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at [email protected]

Professor Kozlowski updates his Intro to Logic episode with some video game recommendations, an explicit discussion of the four historical periods and five classical branches of philosophy, and some (moderately) updated ranting about informal fallacies in contemporary politics.

Another new semester means another syllabus lecture from Professor Kozlowski.  This lecture features post-nervous-breakdown content like additional precautions against plagiarism and a desperate attempt to prevent overly-politicized discussions.  We'll have to see if it's effective!

Professor Kozlowski provides a very rough-strokes overview of the history of 19th Century Phenomenology - specifically Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Husserl - as preparation to discuss his listeners' questions in the weeks to come.

If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at [email protected]

Professor Kozlowski throws caution to the wind, transgresses the boundaries of good taste, and proceeds to argue that the problems typical to 21st Century American culture have more to do with Post-Modernism than Modernism.  Feel free to call him a hack in the comments.  You're not wrong, but it's not like it will stop him or anything.

He promises, no more Philosophy of America stuff in the weeks to come.  On to Sartre!

Professor  Kozlowski continues to take requests for future lectures -  e-mail him  at [email protected] with suggestions for future  topics or  questions you'd like to hear him confront.

Professor Kozlowski bloviates his way to understanding the change between the American philosophy of the nation's founders and American philosophy today - the good, the bad, and the ugly.  Along the way we'll discuss pluralism, property, meritocracy and capitalism, the development of the modern Republican party, the disintegration of the small town in America, and a little bit of Aristotelian political philosophy.

Professor  Kozlowski continues to take requests for future lectures - e-mail him  at [email protected] with suggestions for future topics or  questions you'd like to hear him confront.