Dr. Darren Staloff, Presocratics: Ionian Speculation and Eliatic Metaphysics

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  • Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2024

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  • @sonofJurell
    @sonofJurell Год назад +34

    I came to mock his attire. I stayed for the knowledge. Awesome stuff.

  • @georgebyrne3925
    @georgebyrne3925 2 года назад +254

    To borrow from Heraclitus, no man can view these lectures twice, for having viewed them once, he's no longer the same man.

    • @Star-yz2rn
      @Star-yz2rn 2 года назад +20

      To borrow from Jefferson, to view them twice, makes man guilty of failures of the head, but not the heart.

    • @LostSoulAscension
      @LostSoulAscension Год назад +7

      To borrow from myself, I can view these lectures as many times I like and not feel bad about not memorizing or understanding everything the first time. Whether I've changed since the first viewing makes no mockery in revisiting material. Why let change stop us when change is unstoppable?
      P.S. totally kidding about the "to borrow from myself part."

    • @WforWrath
      @WforWrath Год назад +1

      lmao

    • @cheri238
      @cheri238 Год назад

      🙏❤️🌎🕊🎵🎶🌄

    • @mountainjay
      @mountainjay Год назад +7

      To borrow from Dumb and Dumber, I entirely forgot this quote, like a fart in the wind, it is gone forever- soon to return.

  • @NothingHumanisAlientoMe
    @NothingHumanisAlientoMe 2 года назад +27

    The sheer passion for his subject matter is enthralling. It is fantastic. I wonder if one could apply the idea of "pre-socratic" spectulation as to how a child asks the most straight to the bone questions of *how* and *why* that eternal curiosity that defies cultural orders of thought. Darren Staloff is a great exponent of ideas.

    • @kaimarmalade9660
      @kaimarmalade9660 Год назад +4

      This is everything. It's the Happy Science. Ask why forever.

  • @jackspicerisland
    @jackspicerisland 2 года назад +26

    LOVE this channel-Professor Staloff proves himself a worthy partner for Sugrue, and this is such a clear and down-to-earth exposition of a time and mindset which, as he points out, is very difficult to grasp.

  • @cheri238
    @cheri238 7 месяцев назад +6

    Yes, Professor Sugrue and Professor Daryl Staloff, we say thank you.

  • @sorushan
    @sorushan Год назад +36

    He is the product of an era when students used to read the main texts instead of 43rd edition of textbooks( 43 times commission for the prof!) and searching keywords on Google and the like!

    • @ok-kk3ic
      @ok-kk3ic Год назад +6

      As a college student, this comment is eye-opening. There is a major difference.

    • @GTORT
      @GTORT Год назад +3

      That's what happens when captialism goes unchecked.

    • @zootjitsu6767
      @zootjitsu6767 Год назад

      I am the type to get it from chat gpt

    • @cheri238
      @cheri238 Год назад

      ​@@zootjitsu6767
      Lol❤

    • @cfaibah
      @cfaibah 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@GTORT It's more like what happens when we are unlucky to be born into the nightmare of egalitarianism

  • @JohnJones-ur4jp
    @JohnJones-ur4jp 2 года назад +32

    I wish I had a channel like this when I was going to school many years ago. I am looking forward to more of Dr. Staloff's lectures to be added to Dr. Sugrue's. They make a potent team! Thank you so much.

  • @missenigma1994
    @missenigma1994 2 года назад +31

    Who ever is uploading these, thank you fir being alive. These videos are basically the thing that keeps me going. So, again, thank you so very much ❤️

    • @Jose-ur7jz
      @Jose-ur7jz 2 года назад

      Same

    • @Gorboduc
      @Gorboduc 2 года назад +1

      You might like Leonard Piekoff's history of philosophy course. He's biased but he lets you know it lol. There's also courses by Hubert Dreyfus and John Searle.

    • @Gorboduc
      @Gorboduc 2 года назад +1

      And Bryan Magee's TV show!

    • @missenigma1994
      @missenigma1994 2 года назад +1

      @@Gorboduc I'll make sure to check them out, thank you.

    • @justchillin5373
      @justchillin5373 Год назад +1

      And bobby lee does good work as well.

  • @lordcoreon
    @lordcoreon 2 года назад +40

    Hooray more lectures! I wish I had teachers like this when I was in school.

    • @Gorboduc
      @Gorboduc 2 года назад +2

      Whenever my teachers were on the brink of becoming interesting, they'd stop in their tracks and say "Well, I don't want to lecture you", then they'd make us do group activities, smdh.

  • @christinemartin63
    @christinemartin63 Год назад +2

    Every time I listen to such lectures about brave men and women who asked brave questions, I have before my eyes the famous jump cut in 2001: A Space Odyssey: from ape to space station. At such times, I am grateful to have lived to hear about such people. (Thx for this one!)

  • @ihutson3031
    @ihutson3031 2 года назад +6

    These lectures have been a real joy to watch. It's great to have a skilled, knowledgeable lecturer invite you into a new world. Makes the information so much easier to understand.

  • @josephtrinkle3255
    @josephtrinkle3255 2 года назад +7

    Please keep posting these lectures. I watch through all of the ads entirely. Thanks much

    • @st9919
      @st9919 Год назад

      prem doesnt have ads

  • @ragnarosthefirelord8662
    @ragnarosthefirelord8662 2 года назад +18

    Thank you for sharing Dr. Staloff's lecture from this series, Dr. Sugrue often references Staloff in other lectures on this channel, would love to see more from him as well. Commendable work preserving these excellent lectures for us to enjoy

  • @Tnerb225
    @Tnerb225 2 года назад +16

    I love these lectures please keep them coming.

  • @fortunatomartino8549
    @fortunatomartino8549 Год назад +1

    Sugrue and Staloff are the great explicaters of western civilization

  • @KenshoBeats
    @KenshoBeats 2 года назад +4

    Very articulate this guy, a pleasure to listen to.

  • @BboyKeny
    @BboyKeny 2 года назад +9

    Thank you so much for these uploads!

  • @TakeFlow1
    @TakeFlow1 9 месяцев назад

    This is the real University. Thanks to Dr. Michael Sugrue and to Dr. Darren Staloff for these lectures.

  • @voyagersa22
    @voyagersa22 2 года назад +26

    The only ways I could’ve been good in chemistry, back in presocratic times, only 4 elements 😛👍🏻 Very didactic lecture thanks. Loving this new chap real professors 👨‍🏫

  • @cheri238
    @cheri238 Год назад +4

    Heraclitus is now my favorite philosopher, among many.
    He stated one cannot step into the same river twice. It depends on the fact that the river has permeneia: we call it the same river, because it is Heraclitus points to not the change only, but ever remains. There is no succession of things involved in this change, because the always flow, interpenetrating one another. One of Plato's teachers, Cratylus, who was a pupil of Heraclitus, was right when he wittly added that we cannot step in the same river twice, since at any instant, it is àlways changing, and we too are always in flux. And yet like the river. it is only by the changing that we can aquire the permanence we may have. (Effects of differing rates and differating rates of the pulse in vortexs stream .❤
    #30:06 Heraclitus

  • @Expeditehistory
    @Expeditehistory Год назад +1

    Aside from sound issues this was good. Thank you.

  • @TomerBenDavid
    @TomerBenDavid 2 года назад +4

    What a lecturer!!! 💥💥💥

  • @trent797
    @trent797 2 года назад +2

    Fantastic lecture! Looking forward to more of his videos.

  • @halahala6425
    @halahala6425 2 года назад +2

    Sound is horrible, but the lecture is actually fascinanting. And the main points stated as clearly as can be.

  • @eft1978
    @eft1978 2 года назад +4

    Endless thanks!

  • @MNMLSTN
    @MNMLSTN 2 года назад +10

    Will you upload more from Dr. Staloff? Amazing lecturer!

  • @supersasquatch
    @supersasquatch 2 года назад +5

    very interesting, thanks for the sharing!

  • @erickomar3152
    @erickomar3152 2 года назад +1

    I, somehow, missed this lecture. Thanks for sharing!

  • @AthenaMarriesDionysus
    @AthenaMarriesDionysus 2 года назад +2

    Brilliant lecture now I want to read all the fragments of them that exist! I Shame about the quality! I think there must be something you can do to fix it Michael Sugrue RUclips Channel!

  • @CatastrophicDisease
    @CatastrophicDisease 2 года назад +4

    The being vs. not-being from Parmenides is almost identical to the Hindu vs. Buddhist views of metaphysics, where the Hindu view is that of being and Buddhist and that of non-being.

  • @boggs4896
    @boggs4896 2 года назад +6

    Did Dr. Staloff do a lecture on Kantian epistemology mirroring Dr. Sugrue's lecture on Kant's Moral Philosophy? I would really love that, if it's available!!!

  • @Shibestrike
    @Shibestrike 2 года назад +1

    Logos = Asha
    Interesting how far we’ve come since these lectures. Persians basically unmentioned yet influenced core doctrine.

  • @deepblue007
    @deepblue007 Месяц назад

    I just love the 90s vibes here

  • @shogun9450
    @shogun9450 9 месяцев назад

    Fantastic foundational knowledge

  • @LetsFindOut1
    @LetsFindOut1 2 года назад +1

    19:00 soul/neuma was originally a more material substance. it didn't arise out of completely abstract conceptions

  • @PhilosoFeed
    @PhilosoFeed 2 года назад +9

    Ah, finally I learn what the term "problematic" actually means.

    • @thadtuiol1717
      @thadtuiol1717 2 года назад +6

      Yes, yet another word that has been subverted by the usual suspects in recent years.

  • @simritnam612
    @simritnam612 2 года назад +2

    A glaring lacuna in the meta narrative is the issue of elements. Obviously the 4 elements were not earth water air fire because the metallurgists had gold silver copper iron and clearly had liquified those, and they had noted the volume-density difference in the metals of "earth" through casting, and different types of "air" through domestic and productive industry, ie wind eggs... Therefore earth water air fire should be be understood by us as them understanding larger categories but confusing the part-whole distinction of matter & states of matter in the search for prime matter.

  • @christinemartin63
    @christinemartin63 Год назад +1

    I have enjoyed this lecture a great deal. Nevertheless, why is it that there is no mention of the fact that quite a few of these philosophers, esp Pythagoras, spent many years in Egypt. What did they learn there? Why the interest? Did they "borrow" ideas and theories from these people? I am so curious....

  • @Taylewd
    @Taylewd 4 месяца назад

    41:56 Salt Bae before there was Salt Bae. Great lecture!

  • @DiamorphineDeath
    @DiamorphineDeath 2 года назад +5

    Pre-Socratics were the real deal; currently going through a text on Nietzsche, and the parallels between Heraclitus and himself is very striking, poetic in nature, anti human in expression; I would tell people in college that if I could be a thinker in a time period, I would want to get as far away from modernity and enlightenment values as I could, and would be content in such a time period. Fredrick Copleston’s intro to philosophy volume 1 with the Greeks does a very good job summing up those various thinkers if anyone’s curious. His whole series is great, but often times the presocratics are glossed over as if Plato and Aristotle were Greek philosophy, whereas the Nietzsche’s of the world found like minded expression in Heraclitus and the like, pretty cool stuff. The primordial swamp of thought if you will, yet still mysterious as we only have fragmentary bits from them, so in essence, and in a cyclical fashion, they could have expressed things beyond our imagination, or what came to be rationality and humanism, it could swing in so many different directions. The mystery and the poetics is what I enjoy most with various philosophers, not cold rationality and calculation.

    • @Xenophanes198
      @Xenophanes198 2 года назад +2

      I'm loving Copleston's work. I just started the section on Medieval Philosophy, which I know very little about.

    • @MostafaElSakari
      @MostafaElSakari 5 месяцев назад

      Currently half-way through reading Nietzsche’s significant works, and am excited to dive into the pre-Socratics next. I think that their attitude is missing in our society.

  • @Ondrified
    @Ondrified 2 года назад +1

    Thank you

  • @LongDuree
    @LongDuree 11 месяцев назад

    This is good to pair with Dr Sugrues’ Hippocrates lectures on medicine…

  • @kaimarmalade9660
    @kaimarmalade9660 Год назад

    Throwing the question into the ether: who are the Ionian Sophists of today? How is our contemporary science similarly limited? How might we anticipate, "big changes" in science and subsequent changes in other domains of human activity?
    Personally I'm excited because I think Jazz will go through another, "Cool-Modal Jazz" revolution like we got with Davis, Coltrane, Ayle, Sanders, Sun Ra (...) in the 50s and 60s. We could get another Jimi Hendrix... but like fricking Jimi Hendrix now has AI tools to manipulate his guitar sounds. I'm excited and terrified.

  • @jasoncherry5849
    @jasoncherry5849 2 года назад +2

    Quote of the day: “Let’s make hi a Hemlock Milkshake, that’ll straighten hi right out”.

  • @logicandreason5295
    @logicandreason5295 2 года назад +4

    more more,,more...moreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  • @indicaedits8692
    @indicaedits8692 2 года назад +4

    Wow!

  • @oO-_-_-_-Oo
    @oO-_-_-_-Oo 2 года назад

    fantastic!

  • @sergiosatelite467
    @sergiosatelite467 Год назад +1

    Decent eyebrow work.

  • @Lupine.
    @Lupine. 7 месяцев назад +1

    Has a slight semblance of a Seinfeld bit.
    "What's the deal with Elements?

  • @jamalanderson3891
    @jamalanderson3891 2 года назад +7

    I’m sorry to say I judge a book by its cover, and I’ve turned this video down so many times- because he looks like the WWF wrestler Shawn Michaels. Oh great Shawn Michaels with his pony tail telling me what’s what.. I’m currently watching because there is no way Michael would have him on his channel

  • @brucesmith8285
    @brucesmith8285 2 месяца назад

    What about egptyian wisdom that predates greece?

  • @EricGray-zr2es
    @EricGray-zr2es Месяц назад

    Cold chicken is delicious!

  • @Th3BigBoy
    @Th3BigBoy Год назад

    The green ranger became a philosopher.

  • @simritnam612
    @simritnam612 2 года назад +1

    IMO, the study of ancient philosophy would be reinvigorated by interdisciplinary work with archeology especially forensic archeology. The classroom philosopher can't operate a shovel or turn a wrench, and in my experience is lacking in practical imagination.

  • @diegonayalazo
    @diegonayalazo 6 месяцев назад

  • @FrenchKettleStation
    @FrenchKettleStation 2 года назад

    Yo this slaps

  • @waindayoungthain2147
    @waindayoungthain2147 2 года назад +2

    It’s difficult for me to explain about myself since the knowledge was made every time for me and inside of combined with art and science together with moral,wisdom and concern by the nature of living togetherness with observing obsession and happiness.
    It’s my opinion on one of the first conditions of happily is linked between man and nature that should not be broken.
    We should live with the nature combination for haves of life balancing not too much management, in reality I live with self respect for not to conquer the nature, respecting the environmental in one’s I feel that it’s really on the art of living.
    I accept that to explain how’s, not only for astonishing why’d , since there are the reasons and causes of the problems from it’s happened. Mostly with human being’s could not combine with the nature but provocative behavior and desires.
    Desires, that is the cause for everything we make for ourselves needed and justifying with violence against humanity including we measured the materials of no self control for development or under your control. The developers of the meaning is outside things they respect not the inside of mindfulness. How’s we dares to make it for warriors and greedy people made the manipulation for conquering the worlds, and mount of war’s and humanity passing through or migration to maintain your Billions faith of money. It’s brutal and hasn’t no attitude of sympathy whatsoever. You could never take your property, money with you when you passed away.
    It’s democratic made by yourself definition of crucial and self needs. It’s provocative to be not humbling to the nature of the world
    we need the balance of life. How’s the climate crisis happening in our period of living today’s, from we made, no response for self search solutions since it’s your behavior with satisfaction of savages instincts of human.
    For me, humanity, animals, the mountains 🏔, the trees 🌳 with fresh branches, twigs, insects, birds 🦅 nests or leaves hacked away, soils, breeze wind 💨, fresh air and waters should live with dependence on earth of control it’s us should adapting for living with the surrounding area and nature.
    How’s less manageable and it’s natural the most valuable thing for us. It’s my comparison with
    Laws are made for control ourselves and self security is made of self control and conscious made for kindness and consideration of ourselves. How’s mount of warriors aggression happening with the Rich development countryside .
    So sorry for my thoughts you had no self control and efficient attitude of savages for power reasons but not the poor family living.
    To live with peaceful life without self respecting I believe it’s destroying. If’s you don’t respect yourself you destroying everything for yourself, without guilty whatsoever.
    Time is passed by, the future is not yet come. It’s the moment that you have to live and decide on what will happening?
    Every second to gather a day it’s the atomic that cannot splits out in the small particles that are Times for me to live with human being’s to stay to control the emotional 😭 and self conscious to give if’s I care about human beings and nature for everyone especially supporting the Un community and humanity🙏🏻🇺🇳😊.

  • @jojones4685
    @jojones4685 2 года назад +4

    Handsome side profile

    • @marcokite
      @marcokite 2 года назад +5

      handsome full face

  • @gizka6816
    @gizka6816 2 года назад +1

    when socrates had a bee on his hat

  • @tarhunta2111
    @tarhunta2111 Год назад +4

    American academia has a bad habit of turning subjects like Philosophy into a caricature of itself.

  • @Charmagh110
    @Charmagh110 7 месяцев назад

    24:07

  • @taylortronic
    @taylortronic 2 года назад +1

    i wish this lecture was not unlistenable

  • @jimdenson
    @jimdenson 2 года назад

    6th century / : ? good lecture though.

  • @kalvinversetheworld
    @kalvinversetheworld Год назад +1

    And would you like a glass of cummies to go with your meal, sir?

  • @czarquetzal8344
    @czarquetzal8344 Год назад

    Who says that lecture method is a sort of intellectual exhibitionism? I disagree. No need for power point presentation.

  • @EsatBargan
    @EsatBargan 2 месяца назад

    Johnson Thomas Thompson Helen Hall Jessica

  • @ROGERIUSTEUTONICUS
    @ROGERIUSTEUTONICUS Год назад +1

    Though informative the way he dismisses and misrepresents how the ancients truely regarded myths and what perrenial significance they tell about the human but also universal condition is very ignorant.

    • @MostafaElSakari
      @MostafaElSakari 5 месяцев назад

      What do you mean?

    • @ROGERIUSTEUTONICUS
      @ROGERIUSTEUTONICUS 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@MostafaElSakari I hope I dont mix things up since it has been a long time but the way he sees tge myth is of a naturalistic, materialistic literalism that is a revisionistic view that the people back then didnt hold as such.

    • @MostafaElSakari
      @MostafaElSakari 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@ROGERIUSTEUTONICUS interesting.

  • @anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858
    @anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858 2 года назад +3

    4:00 _I can't stand supercilious presentations about things people do not understand and don't not take seriously. The myths hold TRUTH. The way he smugly dismisses them is truly pathetic. And this is supposed to be about the ancient world? You treat them as though they were children, but it's clear who the real child is_

    • @sergiosatelite467
      @sergiosatelite467 Год назад +1

      It was the 90s. We all thought supernaturalism was finally on its way out for good this time. Just like supernaturalists have been for centuries, we got cocky and naive. Please forgive him. Thanks.

    • @henryburby6077
      @henryburby6077 7 месяцев назад

      Watch his lecture on eliade's cosmos

    • @MostafaElSakari
      @MostafaElSakari 5 месяцев назад

      What truth do they hold?