Ahhh Mr Sadler Another Phenomenal Professorial Study and Studious Teacher with the easy style nearly anyone can gather at minimum a bit more intellect then they accounted prior to. 7 years ago...despite the planned crashing as part of bankrupting the citizens I would gladly return were things comparative to this day. (sigh)
I'm not a philosopher, but I've revisited this guys lectures more than any other subject or area of interest in all my experience of youtube. Rick's an utterly engaging speaker.
Professor Roderick has the abilty to take a complex abstract topic and break it down to practical applications. His West Texas accent makes his presentation more real world. It is sad that he passed away at such a young age.
Yes, I am in NZ but I love his Texan accent and way of presenting...and ideas, his examples....pity he isn't still here, very sad.... a kind of genius...
@@mnoorist8223I’m falling asleep now… as soon as I post this and put my gd phone down.. But I’ve been falling asleep to his lectures almost every night for a long time, two years probably..
The Ancient Greeks certainly generated a magnificent and sustained enlightenment period. And to spit out someone like Socrates at that time was incredible.
thanks from Texas. He certainly was great at making philosophy easy to comprehend & easy to apply to today's world as well, made me think quite a lot, especially about the 1980s political environ, & now it's 2017... I wondered if the definitions of those "words" (what is justice, truth, courage, patriotism, the good life), have not been defined FOR us & "set in stone", so to speak, for us (now more than ever): by the Media, by the politicians, by the politically correct, by the extreme right, by the elite bankers, by the consumer industry, by the marketers, et al ? it would be great if we could all begin asking those questions again, & teaching inquiry & history in the schools, but I am afraid the relativists & the truth knowers make it too difficult (& there's quite a jury out there.... BOTH sides of the fence!).
I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated
What convinced the Oracle to declare Socrates as the most knowledgeable person alive is his electric and unfathomable truth that Meno's slave is not an uneducated slave but shares god's divine knowledge, and can prove complicated mathematical proposition.
15:06 *sophomoric relativism* “We’re all, I think, immersed in a culture of what I might call sophomoric relativism. By that I mean we go, _’Well that’s my opinion damn it!”_ [...] And in a democracy we’re supposed to be democratic about knowledge you know, right? Well everybody’s got a right to be a damn fool and I’m not opposed to that necessarily, I just want to point out that that doesn’t end debate right-you can still argue with old Henry or old Harry or old Sam. [...] Socrates’ position was that the relativist had to be wrong but it didn’t follow from that that Socrates himself had to know the Absolute Truth.”
10:36 *know thyself, then vs. now* “We’re just saturated with information-we’re told so frequently _who we are,_ given a certain set of roles that are prearranged, preestablished and within which in a free society one is able to _very slightly..._ In other words to give you an example, we all know what a yuppie is but we know within that category there’s some variation possible. You could be sandy haired or red haired, you could wear black Reebok’s or white ones.. I mean you know there’s a little... I’m trying to give you a sense for the strange distance between... historical distance between the Socratic search for wisdom and this kind of way of finding out who you are. It’s very different, it’s a very different thing.”
why don't you post some lectures on youtube? we could all use more of the examined life. as for myself, I'm more of an artist and only an armchair philosopher
Pretty sure he's adapting Aristotle's sentence. When Aristotle faced impiety trials of his own he chose to flee to exile rather than accept death the way Socrates did. He said, "I won't let Athens sin twice against philosophy."
8:20 *Fateful distinction: two cultures* “The culture of science and the culture of the humanities.” In Michael Sugrue’s parlance: _hard sciences_ and _soft sciences._
"That the job of philosophy is to catch society when it is at a point of danger", as he says in this lecture. An incredibly resonant sentence for today, when we need philosophy as a fact of desperation. We have maps for the world of a scale outside our practical vision, hurriedly scribbled in a frantic desire to sell objective answers for sub-objective questions. Our compass has been laid aside, disgusted by its religious and mythological ornamentation, ignorant of its function. Philosophy has become Pratchett's Unseen University, populated by academics and intellectuals focused only on decorating and tweaking their conjured palaces of technical language, studying empirical formats for their architecture. No conversation, no dialect, no drawing out and considering of the complexities in simple exchanges, only laboratory dissection of each others' rose-smelling turds. They are silent and complicit in the struggles of the ordinary to understand them-self, as they are ordinated by the utilitarian exchanges they are allowed to make, 'value' has been saturated without space for virtue. The project of Socrates needs resurrecting and invigorating more today than ever in our recent history... We've been hit with critical winding blows to our cultural axioms, gasping for air viscous with information. That's the incredibly tangential/metaphorical answer, lol. But yeah, the essence is he probably hoped the Socratic tradition might re-emerge, as a function of the new environment, just as it happened after the Greek War.
The joke in philosophy about whether Socrates were to leave his confinement if he were a 25 year old... I'm sure I'll use that joke on two people I know today. Ha ha.
Mind you Plato gets mixed with Socrates who wrote nothing....Xenophon and Plato report on and add to or recapitulate what Socrates said in his debates, his trial etc....
Zizek is smart, but not as smart as R. Roderick. Also, Zizek is clearly biased towards liking certain philosophers, I would argue Hegel is the big one for Zizek, while Roderick seems to value the continuum of thought in the Western sense.
I also hope that Zizek is more easily digestible in his native language than in English. This is the first time I’ve seen Roderick’s lectures, and I already understand him better than all the hours of listening to Zizek. Don’t get me wrong, Zizek says important things. But clarity is not Zizek’s strength (at least in English and assuming that clarity is Zizek’s intent). I do see similarities in both men in their humor and general self-deprecating irreverent demeanor.
interesting but I thought positivism was more like having all the data, all your ducks in a row, knowing all the stuff needed, all the stats... then you would be knowing like God what the Truth was, you could figure it all out, no questions asked.... only it is impossible, unsatisfying, and there always seems to be some unknown stuff leftover kinda ghostly or depends on the observer observing sort of schroedinggers' cat kind of thing... so, I don't think Socrates was one, he just believed that there were absolutes, try to at least be talking about the same things, but he (via Plato) never really gave answers exactly,, just perhaps the methods to get there, possibly, or at least go back into the cave & try to relate it to us...
What does it mean to be human? It means to be 'of the humus', 'of the soil'; it means to be aboriginal. That was easy wasn't it. What you have these days is not Human but post-human and thus posthumous (exiled from Nature and the soil), and thus dead. The Human is dead in other words.
Susan McDonald What Roderick is showing by at least the truth that the truth is relative is not relative is the contradiction/inconsistency of the statement. He says he is a fallibilist. He holds to some absolutes but he may be wrong. He is not infallible as he shows by his death. The term Sophist, Roderick shows, has changed it's meaning from one who gets paid for knowledge, in that sense all philosophers today are Sophists, to today's ideas of Sophists as sophistry, cleaver meaningless statements, I think. Doesn't the word sophist come from the word Sophia, wisdom? Hence, philosophia, Love of Wisdom. Melville calls philosophers those whose digesters has stopped. (Think about it and you will see the humor.) But then in this remark Melville seems to be philosophizing.
“In psychoanalysis, truth can not be based on the accumulation of knowledge because truth is that which makes a hole in knowledge, and it is on the basis of this hole in knowledge (and the marking of it as absence) as we will see, that a different mode of certainty may exist.” -Theresa Giron, _Umbr(a)_
Rick Roderick was a communist sympathizer His areas of specialization were Marx and Marxism, Social and Political philosophy, Critical Theory (Habermas and the Frankfurt School), 19th Century Philosophy, and Contemporary Continental Philosophy. He also taught Ethics, Logic, History of Modern Philosophy, Aesthetics and Existentialism. Good riddance.
That’s part of what made him so good, imo. There weren’t a lot of academics publicly teaching Continental Philosophy in lectures like these back then (Although there seems to have been a renewed interest in the past several years or so). I’m personally not sure how the Analytic tradition has survived post-Wittgenstein. Chomsky breathed some life into it, I suppose. But the Continental tradition (particularly post May ‘68 France) seems to be becoming far more relevant, at least to me, especially for interrogating the “Information Age” and Social Media phenomenon, as well as post-industrial Capitalism.
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I agree. He is an excellent presenter, and he definitely knows his stuff -- I'm a philosophy professor myself, and I'm envious of this guy!
I'm gonna be one someday
Gregory B. Sadler Don’t go getting sentimental professor. We watch your lectures as well.
Roderick might’ve had the cool accent, but you taught the whole internet how to read hegel
Ahhh Mr Sadler Another Phenomenal Professorial Study and Studious Teacher with the easy style nearly anyone can gather at minimum a bit more intellect then they accounted prior to.
7 years ago...despite the planned crashing as part of bankrupting the citizens I would gladly return were things comparative to this day. (sigh)
and i am envious of you now! haha
I'm not a philosopher, but I've revisited this guys lectures more than any other subject or area of interest in all my experience of youtube. Rick's an utterly engaging speaker.
RIP Rick, you were truly a philosopher and genuine thinker.
A yt comment from Number Six brought me here. Very happy to have discovered these lectures. Thank you
Yep, I keep on shooting them. RUclips really opens up a lot of possibilties
Mine two of the favorite philosophers :)
I have been following you for years and you helped me a lot with philosophy
I remember watching these...they are excellent...hope they are not taken down
No one's complained yet!
Professor Roderick has the abilty to take a complex abstract topic and break it down to practical applications. His West Texas accent makes his presentation more real world. It is sad that he passed away at such a young age.
Yes, I am in NZ but I love his Texan accent and way of presenting...and ideas, his examples....pity he isn't still here, very sad....
a kind of genius...
What a wonderful lecture!
A timely lecture, even for today.
i listen to him to fall asleep, but it is 1 am and i am "woke"
Even more and more and more timely in 2022
@@mnoorist8223I’m falling asleep now… as soon as I post this and put my gd phone down.. But I’ve been falling asleep to his lectures almost every night for a long time, two years probably..
Great Lectures - true philosopher!
I'm genuinely curious about Rick's thoughts about the lesbian phallus in romantic novels.
That's exactly what I was thinking.
Thanks for uploading from Sydney, Australia.
Haven’t heard Roderick in a long time. (RIP) One of the great teachers of the world.
this dude is a good dude
Rick was a total badass.
The Ancient Greeks certainly generated a magnificent and sustained enlightenment period. And to spit out someone like Socrates at that time was incredible.
Socrates was a pain in the backside but a fascinating pain....
Thank you very much for your kind presentation
Before Netflix, there was Rick Roderick.
After Netflix too
What Faulkner interviews does he refer to at 25:58
thanks from Texas. He certainly was great at making philosophy easy to comprehend & easy to apply to today's world as well, made me think quite a lot, especially about the 1980s political environ, & now it's 2017... I wondered if the definitions of those "words" (what is justice, truth, courage, patriotism, the good life), have not been defined FOR us & "set in stone", so to speak, for us (now more than ever): by the Media, by the politicians, by the politically correct, by the extreme right, by the elite bankers, by the consumer industry, by the marketers, et al ? it would be great if we could all begin asking those questions again, & teaching inquiry & history in the schools, but I am afraid the relativists & the truth knowers make it too difficult (& there's quite a jury out there.... BOTH sides of the fence!).
Good god if the early 90's were dark time for the US 38:10 , then where are we now on the eve of 2025?
I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated
see @michaelsugrue
Roderick gray blazer is almost as good as his final form white shirt, dark voice, 90s tie, formal braces.
Thanks for sharing
18:23 "we're a little busy these days for that kind of thing"
wew
wo fkn real
Well, actually, I have posted a few
Heh. Anyone catch the Thucydides (civil war) reference?
What convinced the Oracle to declare Socrates as the most knowledgeable person alive is his electric and unfathomable truth that Meno's slave is not an uneducated slave but shares god's divine knowledge, and can prove complicated mathematical proposition.
Woah, woah, woah, who said anything about god in the Meno?
***** Socrates did !
Can I get the order of these lectures as they were delivered?
15:06 *sophomoric relativism* “We’re all, I think, immersed in a culture of what I might call sophomoric relativism. By that I mean we go, _’Well that’s my opinion damn it!”_ [...] And in a democracy we’re supposed to be democratic about knowledge you know, right? Well everybody’s got a right to be a damn fool and I’m not opposed to that necessarily, I just want to point out that that doesn’t end debate right-you can still argue with old Henry or old Harry or old Sam. [...] Socrates’ position was that the relativist had to be wrong but it didn’t follow from that that Socrates himself had to know the Absolute Truth.”
10:36 *know thyself, then vs. now* “We’re just saturated with information-we’re told so frequently _who we are,_ given a certain set of roles that are prearranged, preestablished and within which in a free society one is able to _very slightly..._ In other words to give you an example, we all know what a yuppie is but we know within that category there’s some variation possible. You could be sandy haired or red haired, you could wear black Reebok’s or white ones.. I mean you know there’s a little... I’m trying to give you a sense for the strange distance between... historical distance between the Socratic search for wisdom and this kind of way of finding out who you are. It’s very different, it’s a very different thing.”
why don't you post some lectures on youtube? we could all use more of the examined life. as for myself, I'm more of an artist and only an armchair philosopher
If only Rick could see Weimerica now.
weimerica??
@@PappyMandarine Look up the Weimar republic.
@@mmmhorsesteaks I know what's the Weimar Republic. Just never had the barbaric and absurd coinage of Weimerica.
sorry but to those below; try to listen to what he's saying, not how he's saying it. the guy has a really interesting perspective
came here after listening to the lectures of professors sugrue and staloff:)
Does anybody know who he’s referring to as the first “west Texas philosopher” Duke “sinned against?”
He's referring to himself, I believe.
Ben Goodman but his allusion is that he doesn’t want to be the second person who they would sin against, right?
Pretty sure he's adapting Aristotle's sentence. When Aristotle faced impiety trials of his own he chose to flee to exile rather than accept death the way Socrates did. He said, "I won't let Athens sin twice against philosophy."
Were a republic if you can keep it
Rather than a candle at the end of a cave, the light at the end of the tunnel is a freight train coming at ya.
8:20 *Fateful distinction: two cultures* “The culture of science and the culture of the humanities.”
In Michael Sugrue’s parlance: _hard sciences_ and _soft sciences._
44:25 Not only are these bodies prisons., so too are "our" Souls! - Meta D
Greeks! What were they thinking
Socrates turned THE GOOD into a Noun.
His last big thing to remember was 9/11. Hmmm wonder what he thought right before he went.
"That the job of philosophy is to catch society when it is at a point of danger", as he says in this lecture. An incredibly resonant sentence for today, when we need philosophy as a fact of desperation. We have maps for the world of a scale outside our practical vision, hurriedly scribbled in a frantic desire to sell objective answers for sub-objective questions. Our compass has been laid aside, disgusted by its religious and mythological ornamentation, ignorant of its function.
Philosophy has become Pratchett's Unseen University, populated by academics and intellectuals focused only on decorating and tweaking their conjured palaces of technical language, studying empirical formats for their architecture. No conversation, no dialect, no drawing out and considering of the complexities in simple exchanges, only laboratory dissection of each others' rose-smelling turds. They are silent and complicit in the struggles of the ordinary to understand them-self, as they are ordinated by the utilitarian exchanges they are allowed to make, 'value' has been saturated without space for virtue. The project of Socrates needs resurrecting and invigorating more today than ever in our recent history... We've been hit with critical winding blows to our cultural axioms, gasping for air viscous with information.
That's the incredibly tangential/metaphorical answer, lol. But yeah, the essence is he probably hoped the Socratic tradition might re-emerge, as a function of the new environment, just as it happened after the Greek War.
Can you be certain about your uncertainty?
LoverOfTruth2010 yes, you are certain that you are uncertain.
picture a dark box. Are you uncertain about its contents? would you not be certain about this uncertainty?
Never
What a gay
The joke in philosophy about whether Socrates were to leave his confinement if he were a 25 year old... I'm sure I'll use that joke on two people I know today. Ha ha.
weird. i just read about the lesbian phallus in the romantic novel earlier today
Rick talking about how scared people are of indefinite meaning resonates now in relation to gender & patriotism just as it did then.
Bad idea to ask a 7yr old the Socratic question of what they wanna be when they grow up during Christmas dinner for many reasons.
Mind you Plato gets mixed with Socrates who wrote nothing....Xenophon and Plato report on and add to or recapitulate what Socrates said in his debates, his trial etc....
40:26 to 40:40 Abraham Lincoln
Rick Roderick didn't die, he became Slavoj Zizek
Zizek is smart, but not as smart as R. Roderick. Also, Zizek is clearly biased towards liking certain philosophers, I would argue Hegel is the big one for Zizek, while Roderick seems to value the continuum of thought in the Western sense.
I also hope that Zizek is more easily digestible in his native language than in English. This is the first time I’ve seen Roderick’s lectures, and I already understand him better than all the hours of listening to Zizek. Don’t get me wrong, Zizek says important things. But clarity is not Zizek’s strength (at least in English and assuming that clarity is Zizek’s intent). I do see similarities in both men in their humor and general self-deprecating irreverent demeanor.
If you choose to define Logical Positivism as "All knowledge depends upon Definition, then , Socrates is the first Logical Positivist.
interesting but I thought positivism was more like having all the data, all your ducks in a row, knowing all the stuff needed, all the stats... then you would be knowing like God what the Truth was, you could figure it all out, no questions asked.... only it is impossible, unsatisfying, and there always seems to be some unknown stuff leftover kinda ghostly or depends on the observer observing sort of schroedinggers' cat kind of thing... so, I don't think Socrates was one, he just believed that there were absolutes, try to at least be talking about the same things, but he (via Plato) never really gave answers exactly,, just perhaps the methods to get there, possibly, or at least go back into the cave & try to relate it to us...
Very surprising accent on a philosopher.
Made in Texas
Wc fields
What does it mean to be human? It means to be 'of the humus', 'of the soil'; it means to be aboriginal. That was easy wasn't it. What you have these days is not Human but post-human and thus posthumous (exiled from Nature and the soil), and thus dead. The Human is dead in other words.
At least it is true that the truth is relative.
Truth is relative? I thought that was the Sophist's position?
Susan McDonald What Roderick is showing by at least the truth that the truth is relative is not relative is the contradiction/inconsistency of the statement. He says he is a fallibilist. He holds to some absolutes but he may be wrong. He is not infallible as he shows by his death.
The term Sophist, Roderick shows, has changed it's meaning from one who gets paid for knowledge, in that sense all philosophers today are Sophists, to today's ideas of Sophists as sophistry, cleaver meaningless statements, I think. Doesn't the word sophist come from the word Sophia, wisdom? Hence, philosophia, Love of Wisdom.
Melville calls philosophers those whose digesters has stopped. (Think about it and you will see the humor.) But then in this remark Melville seems to be philosophizing.
bravo! sagacious
“In psychoanalysis, truth can not be based on the accumulation of knowledge because truth is that which makes a hole in knowledge, and it is on the basis of this hole in knowledge (and the marking of it as absence) as we will see, that a different mode of certainty may exist.” -Theresa Giron, _Umbr(a)_
Certainty is for the shallow mind.
I don't know about shallow, but mine's pretty smooth and soft.
You can only be a philosopher if you're an edgy troll
If Rick is Fallibilist, I cant help but be a fallibilist.
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Phew, the notion that humans are distinct from that which is is preposterous. Defense of sophism is revealing, ha, ha.
Go argue with Descartes then
Here we have a "know-it-all". Bla bla bla. All a rationalistic verbiage that overwhelms.
Rick Roderick was a communist sympathizer His areas of specialization were Marx and Marxism, Social and Political philosophy, Critical Theory (Habermas and the Frankfurt School), 19th Century Philosophy, and Contemporary Continental Philosophy. He also taught Ethics, Logic, History of Modern Philosophy, Aesthetics and Existentialism. Good riddance.
That’s part of what made him so good, imo. There weren’t a lot of academics publicly teaching Continental Philosophy in lectures like these back then (Although there seems to have been a renewed interest in the past several years or so).
I’m personally not sure how the Analytic tradition has survived post-Wittgenstein. Chomsky breathed some life into it, I suppose. But the Continental tradition (particularly post May ‘68 France) seems to be becoming far more relevant, at least to me, especially for interrogating the “Information Age” and Social Media phenomenon, as well as post-industrial Capitalism.
@@dethkon Communists are evil, socialist are a cancer on the body politic and should be excised from it.
@@oatnoid Why? Seems a bit rude, if you ask me.
@@dethkon Yes they are.
Sounds great