Dr. Darren Staloff, Augustine's City of God
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
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I can't wait for the lectures on the prince, leviathan and crime and punishment! These enriching lectures must be archived at all costs!
I would kill thousands to get those lectures. I am certain that we must have them at any cost!
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@@Shubham-jb9sp All of these lectures are part of different series on "Great Courses". some are from "Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition (Vol 1)" which can be bought as a DVD set on the Great Courses website for about $800.
This lecture pounds on me how blessed I have been, and humbles me because I do not deserve it. It's time to ramp up gratitude!
it's really a humble thing to post online that you're humble. Matter of fact, you're the humblest of all, right?
Another great lecture by Dr Staloff. This one is almost a sermon.
Outstanding! I can't believe I have access to lectures like this. Thank you so much.
As someone who's only watched the youtube videos, it's a pleasure to finally meet Dr Stallof
Thank you so much Michael. I have a B.A psych with double major in philosophy, and my country (Canada) has alienated me successfully from my family which has not yet passed on. My mom killed herself and so I can’t hold a job to pay for university anymore.
Knowledge is power and I cannot thank you enough for sharing this content with all. It is the most virtuous thing I’ve seen in my higher education career and I am grateful forever for that. 🙏
Im so sorry to hear about your mother.
For what its worth, from a stranger thousands of miles away, I see what you wrote and my heart goes out to yours.
Stay strong, stay stalwart in your path.
@@Itachi52496 thank you so much. I wish I could get a hug from you because I have a big heart but nobody to share it with :(
Psychology is a pseudo science with amazing capability to come up with stupid correlations such as "women with large titties tend to be more motherly than womens with smaller ones.
Your country has alienated you from your family? Do you allude to vehement political disagreements?
I had no idea Anakin Sywalker could lecture like that! Wow!
When I started watching this channel, I was at first skeptical of the videos I saw of this professor, given how good Dr. Sugrue's lectures were. But now that I've watched several of Dr. Staloff's talks, I must say it's impressive how good both lecturers are. I'm deeply grateful for being able to access such a high-quality education thanks to this channel.
Yes, I agree. Staloff is a very engaging lecturer.
Michael and Darren are the Starsky and Hutch of philosophy.
Bo and Luke Duke. Just two good ol' boys, never meaning no harm...
0:24 Theology, Inspiration of Reflection
3:41 Why does Christianity emerge?
5:18 Best of Mind and Spirit
Neo-Platonism
6:37 Form of The Good, Divine Mind, Logos
8:04 Form, Matter, from Nothing
9:10 Eudaemonia - Happiness
10:16 This world is short, Soul is Eternal. Bliss is Basking In God 11:21 Ultimate Good
12:04 Problem of Good and Evil
Evil - Absence of Good, Turning Away from Good
13:33 How did Evil begin?
Adam-Eve-Serpent 🐍
16:04 Man-Center is Hubris
18:00 What are people really like when the lights go out?
19:05 Introspective
I love the justaposition of the video in all it’s form being so extremely dated, but the delivery and content so timeless.
Dr. Staloff's comments about American government are spot on.
Keep them coming!
Love your mind Dr. Staloff! Great Lecture!
The good stuff keeps coming
I think you are amazing and thank you very much for your lectures. Happy Christmas.
This was great! Also I'm convinced this has to be from exactly 1990.
That collar screams pre-1995, if it was later that shirt would be faux denim
Thanks. Very interesting.
This is gold!!
The thing that struck me was that he admitted to Augustine's use of dialect alchemy. As someone who disagrees with Augustine, I say, "No, Augustine. I'm not asking God to justify Himself. I'm asking you, Augustine, to justify your use of platonistic philosophy to twist scripture.
Listening to this lecture was like a tour through Alice’s looking glass world where Christians are against dogma and believe in prudence where you should let others speak even if you disagree with them because maybe they are right, while humanists shut down free speech. As Voltaire famously said “I disapprove of what you say, but if you say that again I will take your life.”
When need professors like this in 2022!!
Amazin
Thanks
A thoroughly enjoyable and euridte talk by one who is a naturally gited public speaker.
It would have been very helpful for me if the doctor would explain the Greek terms he uses.
left speechless, but my mind is whirring
thanks doc
I am not a believer, but this lecture certainly makes one wonder. Fascinating, insightful and thought-provoking. Thank you!
As you rightly said " we take, we owe".
I’m not convinced that tolerance of others’ views can be traced back through Hume and Calvinists to Augustus. But the last 5 minutes of this lecture makes you consider how Medieval thinking informs our thought today.
Are you suggesting that Hume's skepticism is developed from Augustine's and Calvin's conception of "prudence", as the professor puts it? I've never thought of it that way before. 🤔
He suggested that Anglo-American thought derived in that way, distinguishing it from French rationalism, as well as the Italians.
Prudence is what we are presently lacking in the United States. Republicans and Democrats are so certain that the other is wrong that neither is willing to listen to the opposing opinion.
Yes we must have prudence and accept that god will give people cancer and send homosexuals to hell bc he is all knowing and all loving ❤. We need more blind faith! Enough of this rational thinking and esoteric science!!
If you're not certain that attempting to subvert a free & FAIR election on behalf of , -possibly arguably- UNDOUBTEDLY the world's most unlikable person ? Then what's to listen to? SERIOUSLY.
Subverting an election is what? I forgot that part! 😂
*IS SHITTY!*
Personal Notes:
Germanic and French people were simple and had a predisposition towards Christianity
Neoplatonism and Platonism
St. Augustine is a self-professed Platonist
Augustine Baptizes Plato
The ultimate being or being being itself is the Judeo Christian God.
From the mind of God, everything comes into being.
In the beginning was the word
If you want ultimate happiness isn’t it short-sighted to act in such a way to increase your pleasure in this life?
The bulk of your actual soul-life is the state of your life after death.
The soul resides in the realm of pure being.
The form of the good is God.
Evil is the absence of good.
If everything God created is good and perfect and evil is turning away from God or just the absence of it then how did evil occur?
Adam and Satan do not want to serve.
Humanism = Man is the center of all things. Its pride, and you put yourself up into the position of God. If you’re a humanist you have been taken advantage of before.
If I do something good, its because I have been graced by God. My natural disposition is for me to do something evil which is the absence of good.
What happens when the lights go out?
You know why I don’t do horrible crimes? Its because praise the Lord I have been infused with divine grace.
We needed a God-Man
Christ is a mediator
I understand that I don’t know. To know what you don’t know.
So I have to justify God to you?
God has to justify Himself to you?
Who does that sound like? Satan again.
God judges you, not the other way around.
In what sense if God just?
Who does that sound like? Satan again.
God judges you, not the other way around.
We can do better if we wanted to.
We sinners belong in hell and if we do ever get into heaven its a miracle of divine mercy.
Hey that’s not fair that’s not my fault. How can I have free will.
Its the fact that you will evil things that gets you damned.
God’s not quite up to snuff for you? Is that the case?
Who does that sound like? Satan.
There is stability in prudence.
I’m pretty sure I’m right, but only God can be positive. If I think A and you think not A. I could say you are a fool but I have no right to tell you shut up.
You have a right to your opinion, but because I can’t be sure and if I cant be sure prudence is that value for life.
If you disagree then you don’t have to accept it. Hear them out, and if you disagree, move on.
Keep on debating and sharpen the sword and plant the seeds, even if it seems like people aren't listening. Discourse is important.
That ponytail is bad ass…. 👍
Maybe Staloff is being ironic at the end about his assessment of US, but the way that part of the lecture has dated is fascinating. US interventions have left corpses all over the world, Tories weren't beheaded because many Founders were sympathetic to them, and Civil War + Reconstruction essentially created a second US after the first one failed.
We could try to fight against the dictators and totalitarian regimes but instead corrupt politicians are filling their pockets... Look what they did to JFK! We live in a world full of corruption, but we need to heal and debate and fight for freedom and truth!
Hopefully they stop messing around before it's too late...
This is another version of Mr Sugru.
Yep, it's hippie Michael Sugrue! 🤣
Would it be possible to listen to Prof. Staloff’s lecture on Alvin Gouldner?
In fairness, that was some lecture!
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EARTH IS FLAT
Never has such a comically-sounding phrase described something so horrible as "stick the Kulaks in gulags".
It would also suit the Romans to adopt a creed that made its followers meek and passive, not in opposition to the powers that be : " render unto Caesar what is Caesar's!"
it is also an 'otherworldly' philosophy that undervalues the material here and now.
I love this lecture but the audio is unbearable
23:57 "lets return to God for a minute" lol
The issue with prudence is that everyone thinks they are.
I do not think I'm Prudence
@@AnthonyL0401 I can’t really dispute you there.
If you’re jumping to conclusions with too much certainty about you being imprudent, then you’re imprudent. If you aren’t jumping to conclusions with too much certainty, then you’re still imprudent.
It’s a reverse catch 22. XD
If a catch-22 cuts both ways regardless, then why does it have to be reversed?
30:52 and 36:48 are pretty funny
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What decade are these lectures from?
Early 90s
I'd like to have a crack at some of the questions that you ask in your lecture.
To paraphrase Hegel's introduction in "Phenomenology of spirit " in order to understand the Universal's you must first understand the particulars. I hate terms like, faith and acceptance, everything just is, accept it. That will never cut it with a rational man. What is it? I want to know, I want to understand, and seek and you will find. I accept that I perhaps never understand or be able to conceptualise the vastness and magnitude of the Universe, but how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. I stay asking,I stay paying attention, I stay hungry and appreciative of wisdom above all else, I care about nothing else. If someone can show me what I am doing or saying is wrong I will gladly change, for all I seek is the truth.
Job didn't blaspheme God, but he did constantly seek to understand, he stayed asking what I believe has to be the fundamental question, why am I suffering? The Universe unravels itself in an eternal sequence of cause and effect and if we can understand the cause we can address it and change the effect.
So whereas I may never know the limitations of possibilities and probabilities I can use my faculty of Reason, or the process of drawing logical inferences to deepen my understanding. Reason is in opposition to the sensory perceptions, feelings, desires, as the faculty by which fundamental truths are initially apprehended.
Kant reckoned that a certain amount of a priori knowledge is necessary to Reason, I contend that too much a priori knowledge inhibits ones ability to Reason, to quote Epictetus " you can't learn what you think you already know. Therefore, knowledge (dogma) is in fact the apple. Man creates knowledge. As Marcus Aurelius said " Wisdom is not found in books.
So if we seek to understand the particulars, theoretical physicists posit that the higgs boson ( the God particle) passing through the Higgs field was the beginning of the formation of matter. I refute this, my reasoning leads me to believe it was sound, ( perhaps the big bang) which of course resonates. If you look at experiments using sound and resonance, the resonances create shapes, similar to a kaleidoscope, that's what you see on acid or in particular DMT, when you change the resonance the design changes. I stand to be corrected but I think what they call the Higgs field I call zero point energy, a composition of the four fundamental forces, weak nuclear force, strong nuclear force, gravitational force and electromagnetic force. Binary opposites that control everything that happens in the Universe. They determine what atoms bind to create molecules. They are the science of destruction and creation. Hence I say that mind is part of the electromagnetic spectrum. This is why the Hermetics say everything is mind, it permeates everything in Nature. It is also why I say zero point energy and consciousness are one and the same. It's Aristotle's prime mover, the first cause. It's God, everything is God. God is us but we are not God.
Existentialism is what I deem to be the original sin. I am separate from Nature, I am over and above all other animals. I will take, destroy, manipulate, steal and kill to serve my selfish interests. Fuck everybody and everything else. Even though I have a faculty of Reason I will breed indiscriminately and though I will cull any other species that does so to balance homeostasis, it is unjust and evil if it is done unto me!
God's justice is, what mind does to us what we do to it, it is only through suffering that we can begin to understand the suffering of others. Hence Kant's categorical imperative, and I really do understand Kant, but the the strong can't abide by that. I for one have no problem being the hand of Justice, and whatever suffering I have to endure as a consequence, that's just fine, I'm happy to endure it. I'll do my role. I see any suffering as an opportunity for growth and development, every conceptual experience as a hypothesis, an opportunity to Reason, I ask why and by paying attention I learn. I can't get enough of it as long as I understand the Rational order.
There was so much more in your lecture that I wanted to talk about but I'll leave it for now. Oh yes, we don't have freewill because due to a complete and utter lack of Reason, identifying as a self, a thing in and of itself we adore the golden calf. But Nature is a series of recurring patterns, as humanity has aged the windows of our cognition have closed. However we ought to be massively appreciative for the empirical knowledge we now have that as Kant rightly said is necessary for pure Reason. If are also faced with our impending doom, an very conscious awareness that we are going to die as a collective. So we are at the beginning of an age of Reason, let's start with Momento Mori, be so so glad we are here now, let's pretend we are dead and take the rest of our lives and live them properly.
Given that you put a full dissertation in the comments section, I think you already had crack.
I'm going to put another on Aristotle's metaphysics!
@@davidconroy8554Yeah, I guess you could classify my scathing invective as "popular demand"🤔😏
I'm deeply unimpressed by Augustine's rhetorical trick of deflecting all critcisms of his theology by saying "why should god have to make sense to you?" The man is conflating himself with God and then calling me prideful for questioning his imperfect speculations. Obscene behavior.
Have a look at the book of Job.
In MERE CHRISTIANITY, C. S. Lewis argues against polytheism, he calls it "damn nonsense, because, according to that religion, all of the evil on Earth is actually good, it's just beyond our power to understand God. But That's exactly the argument of Job. I can find it far easier to accept the evil things that happen in life if I don't believe that there is a Supreme Being directing them. Do I have the right to question God? Yes.
If evil came into the world “cosmologically” independent of god, then god isn’t all powerful
That’s definitely a sentence
@@jphanson unfortunately it seems to be irrefutable. Waiting for someone with the intellectual caliber to tackle it but no one has made a coherent counter to it
No, I think Sugrue, more or less, tackles it in his lecture on _The Book of Job_ . Statement itself is an example of satanic pride and the -literal- actual satanic pride in your follow up statement, well..? 🧐
tsk tsk
Fuck! Staloff addresses your brilliant discovery HERE !
More pretzel logic. What's evil? No, no, evil doesn't exist. It's just the absence of good. Uh huh. (It's a good thing the masses were not educated, and they could be hoodwinked this easily. This doesn't even smell like "love of wisdom.") Oh yeah and there's more: when evil things happen to you, it's your fault (after all, you have free will!). When anything good happens, lo and behold! It's a miracle from the kind and loving God/Christ, who is your personal Savior. That pretzel is getting larger and much more twisted the longer I hear about the venerable Saint Augustine, who probably fought many wars and killed thousands of people in his loving Lord's name.
30:00
Enter Christopher Hitchens 😊
Shame the sound quality is so poor , knowledge is power , a closed mind will vastly limit knowledge , unfortunately strong religious beliefs can close your mind ….
how do you know knowledge is power?
I’d say your question answers itself , but For a very very basic example if you was locked in a room with 1000 people and the door had a 6 digit lock and you know the code and no one else does you have the power , use this example to nearly any scenario and thus knowledge is power , that’s how I know
What do you mean "close your mind"? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? And wouldn't it also depend upon which religion you adhere to?
Sound out of sync.
By this logic, logic is a sin.
Is he gaslighting me or Michael Servetus?
Eve ate the fruit first. Satan tempted Eve. Eve tempted Adam. God told Adam not to eat the fruit. Adam told Eve. If I sin I am unlucky. Blaming the creation for its imperfections. Everything that happens is "ultimately" for the good. Holocaust was "ultimately" for the good. If you are lucky enough to be graced by faith. God sends no one to he'll that don't deserve it. Everyone who is not perfect deserve to go to he'll is judgement. No one goes to the father except through me is a judgement. That 95% of people will go to he'll is a judgement.
I mean, if you just said the Holocaust was ultimately for the good, why can't you say HELL??! What are you "playing it safe" there? 🙄
Don't wanna come off crass or say something uncouth, eh ? Good thinking 🙄
"Hell" would just be tacky, you know, as its said by all those knavish, ruffian ne'er-do-well men of the cloth
How many Canadian republics?
ZERO
No, Augustine, I am not asking God to justify himself. I'm asking you to justify yourself, and you turn to dialectic witch craft to deflect the question... huh.
This guys a lil goofy
how ?
@@ipeeinmysinkimafraidtocome7127 I just think he’s a lil goofy
@@The3baconboys who ?
you think is true what i wrote ?
He is making me tired just watching him