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Great to see you posting again, dr. Russon!

Very excited for this series

Great to see you back on RUclips John. Your content is always first class and I’m always grateful to learn from it. Thanks Scott

Thank you so very much for these lectures! Whats so helpful is a.) that you have great vivid examples and b.) that you discuss quotes from the book. Especially the last aspect helped me have quite a few "AHA!!!" moments, since I genuinely had trouble understanding what Sartre meant before you explained it. No thanks to his writing style at this place. Best regards and many thanks!!!

Excellent crystallization of Socrates' thought. Love the channel. Happy New Year!

Great to have you back, professor! I've basically spent the entirety of 2024 working through both of your lecture series on The Republic (26 lectures in total 3x views each). You do excellent excellent work and your lectures are arguably the highest quality philosophy lectures on this platform. It's of great value to the world that this channel exists and that (maybe) you might be back. Don't worry about the limited view count. “The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band” -- Brian Eno

I am glad that you introduced me to this philosophy. You made great efforts to simplify it. Muna from Saudi Arabia

Amazing work Sir! I hail from India and was looking for a video just like this. I'm glad I found your content. It is going to help me a lot.🙏🙏

helpful but even more verbose and long winded than sartre where i am constantly in my head thinking 'get to the point;.

First video that explains the latency period. Thank you.

Thank you for uploading these videos about the „memoirs of the blind“. I’ve been trying to figure out the theory on my own, but soon was pretty lost because of the difficult expressions and wordings. Your explanations have helped me so much with understanding the text!

Excellent. Thank you.

The oligarchic father’s attitudes to wealth also resembles the self-made man Socrates brought up with Cephalus.

Gratitude

John, I just this evening found your channel. I was taking a break from election news and reading a book, Travels In Asia And Africa 1325-1354 by Ibn Battuta. I had ordered The Muqaddimah, abridged of course. I love the study of The Great Books of the Western World and Philosophy in general. Thank you.

I’ve been able to combine your lectures with Prof. Sugrue’s lectures as well as some free archived Yale lectures to get a good understanding on The Republic as I read through it. Very much appreciated.

Thank you very much for contributing so much time and energy to share this information for free. Truly in the spirit of a lover of knowledge.

You are awesome! Thanks for this detailed account

This makes the "theological turn" of Derrida lucid, even if that wasn't the central focus of your astute reading of the text. I recommend these talks to any Caputo follower. Kudos!

A preeminent trade culture whose assets was the knowledge of safe routes to deliver goods, as though one could imagine they had freedom of the seas Law equivalent of the free trade narrative. We get on with the folks whom the trade routes are peopled with.

Thank you Watching it from India Looking forward to watching the whole series

Whyte men re learning what they eliminated 😆

The longer you talk, the bedoin drop out of listening to you, then realize only sedentaries are listening to you. Long attention span are for tasks and short attention spans are for leizures. Paradoxical cross reference.

Thank you, really nice video.

Excellent. Spent the whole time working through what happens between the speeches - and did a lot with it. I learned about that from Krell and Sallis. I’m assuming you are a continental philosopher?

This helped me a lot to understand what my prof. was trying to say. Thank you this is very elaborate!

Simply marvellous, Great work.

I love this. Thank you for sharing your knowledge from the minds of the past. What I love the most is your style of sharing insight into the deep points made. Thank you again

This is a much superior video to the others that came up in the list. People FAIL to discuss what he said, and his theories. No point talking how great he was (Let us talk religion) and how progressive he was without a concrete discussion of his actual work.

Two other important symbols: Cephalus means 'head.' The festival of Bendis was a nighttime relay race with torches passed between horsemen. I suspect Plato was satirizing the idea that money can buy off moral debts. lol

Miliray veterans sound pretty Bedoin-like. The virtue of the guardian class is courage. They learn to do things on their own. When they ttansition to civilian life they often don't know how to ask for help. I wonder if anyone has ever studied the difference between US and Canadian veterans on the basis of homelessness and suicide for which the incidence in the US higher between veterans and civilians, probably also.for men vs women.

Doesn't want to read that nonsense on continental ontology - the ontological of the ready-at-hand, destruction Istanbul through reality videos and wordplay in process speed in league of legend's; a social psychology of sort. The authenticity of your existence is defined through these people. Throw that junk out.

These lectures are single-handedly getting me through the first few weeks of my rhetoric class. I was struggling really hard to see the depth in Phaedrus, but you have really illuminated how much there is to chew on.

Very much enjoying this. We welcomed you for a talk at University of Colorado Denver a long while back, and I'm teaching aesthetics, surfing around a bit. I love the detail in the talk and the way you frame things helps me me see the reading in new ways, though I've taught it for decade(s). Best, David H.

Very interesting , how the society and community evolve.

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I recently (and serendipitously) picked up your "Infinite Phenomenology" book. It's the best analysis of Hegel I've come across! These lectures are on par and equally excellent. It's rare to find someone charitable to so many disparate philosophers from Kant to Sartre to Hegel to Merleau-Ponty. Please keep sharing your wisdom. Much appreciated.

The modern scienced relate to particular gestalt contexts of reality. That is why they're so many and that they aren't reducible to one another.

He was racist

this helped so much thank you!!

I cannot resist mentioning that when you were discussing the mind-body problem I constantly of J.J. Thomson's struggle with the particle and wave characteristics of the newly discovered electron. It's a particle, no it's a wave. Spinoza would have loved that problem -- I suppose. Thanks yet again, johnny powell

Are there transcripts to these lectures? This lecture on Spinoza was brilliant, but I would not be able to understand any of it with Russon's explanation. Ethics is essentially written in a very different language. Many thanks, johnny powell, Physics, Reed College

Your enthusiasm while explaining these fundamental experiments is absolutely fantastic. Reed College, Physics

Given the ambivalent nature of civilization, some people still occasionally want to go back, and some do. Some want to return to nature in a simpler, more innocent, familiar way by living in the country, on a farm, or off the grid, being self-reliant and calling it home. They have found a new kind of luxury, which in some important ways is a more human, though possibly tougher, kind of life. Progress allows us choices.

Someone asked you about presenting Marx. Along with that, when you have time, can you say more about the study of History?

Like also the idea of considering thousands of years of human labor concretized in things: the cellphone, donut shop, or particular academic fields. We take much for granted. Things could have been otherwise. We simply accept our inheritance of things and don't see the ambiguous nature and artificiality of them.

Like the idea of getting a deeper understanding of history, including the how and why of events. I think we would understand better also if we know what events contribute to history. One might think nothing significant happened before one self came about. It's interesting that Ibn Khaldun, with much insight, came about centuries before Modernity, in a world much harder, with less luxuries.

Thank you for explaining this book Its a real wake up call

thanks for sharing this, your videos are my new favorite content to binge watch 😊 I think I'll be replacing my therapist with them 🤭 jk

loved loved loved this talk so much, and also the way you deliver it makes it more interesting, thanks for sharing! I'm looking forward to explore your channel and listen to the other topics!