This lecture can be found with much better audio quality on the website of the University of Cambridge. I found it via Alan Macfarlane's Homepage which is mentioned above. Go to "Lectures" and then "Classical Social Theorists".
Both are Awful! This chap needs to Re do this lecture. It's very edifying stuff though I'm not an academic or scholar. Someone drag him into a studio and download him. He's wonderful and it's a bore struggling thru the audio. Or Elon Musk will upload him into C3PO and turn all the Trekkies off. Please Sir. Encor Encore and Bravo!
This lecture can be found with much better audio quality on the website of the University of Cambridge: upload.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1411400. I found it via Alan Macfarlane's Homepage which is mentioned above. Go to "Lectures" and then "Classical Social Theorists".
I want to say that I very much appreciate you uploading these videos. It allows all of us who will never be able to go to these great schools to learn a bit about these great thinkers. Thank you so much.
I'm really enjoying all the videos you made on here - this is real democratisation. I'm a Brit, studying in Europe (online), have to work at the same time, but I'm learning so much from these videos - thank you!
Is it possible to put up a new version with an improved soundtrack? I'd love to view the entire class, but the sound quality gets really tiresome after a while.
@ReverandCiderMan I have only recently heard of it as a 1st year undergrad in sociology at Goldsmiths, Lewisham, London. The Enlightenment was not so much a PRODUCT of England, but it affected all of Europe in unique, nation specific ways. I have never heard of enlightenment ideas in schools, we did not even cover it in A level philosophy, although we covered many of the thinkers Kant! University was a godsend to me, I have learnt more this year than I have at any time in my life!
@renatocsteam Não deixe a barreira da língua impedir você, recomendo que aprenda o idioma inglês. E algo extremamente necessário visto o grande numero de estudos que se encontram nessa língua. Abraços Boas
You can tell it took extra effort to produce such an outstanding sound effects! It is fascinating how such a simple task as recording sound could be done so badly as to ruin what was a great lecture. Well done both the lecture and the recorder!
Many thanks. I'm following your 8 lectures, very very kind of you. With regard to sound, I think it improved hugely when you put into your pocket the cable which was hanging loose.
This lecture can be found with much better audio quality on the website of the University of Cambridge. I found it via Alan Macfarlane's Homepage which is mentioned above. Go to "Lectures" and then "Classical Social Theorists".
@lobotomizedman No, that was Weber, Plato conceptualised the "ideal forms". Ideal types are social categories that are a useful way to start from when theorising but can intertwine with others and combine and discount aspects. The ideal forms are more about the perfection of attributes, Plato uses beauty as an example. Plato was more deterministic I think as he says that there is a "ideal" to attributes which is highly subjective, Weber allows for this with a little creativity.
If you can read the essays of Montaigne, then perhaps you might be able to confirm with me whether this statement is true or not -- that this writer was really Montesquieu before him or that Montesquieu was really just Montiagne after him!
Offtopic: do you find it mildly amusing that there are people complaining about the audio? The way it sounds is generally speaking how I always hear! I suppose I can count it is as a pleasure that I do not have to say this aloud to you!
What do they learn in highschool? Its crazy at each beginning of the lectures he asks who knows about the author and his theory and each time noone is able to answer. I learned those stuff in highschool. Durkheim and Weber and Gellner are more for universities because its the follow up of what has been written by "les Lumières".
in fact, it is something that you used (I haven't noticed it first, sorry), next time try to either test the quality of sound (which might be quite difficult ooz t takes time) or try aditional voce recorder (espescially when lecturer is ot moving)- then you could delete original soundtrack in final cut pro and use the voice recorder recording (you would have to ensure that both recordings are continuous and that you synchronizethem while editing). Hope that hels
wonderful stuff. i've been looking at other Mac lectures for hours now. here's a give-back: if you want to know something, google for it: ) you tube is probably the best thing to happen for education since.. long time... language? the tit? so mr Mac, what comments do you have for that and all the emerging interfacing and info sets? is this the end of man as we have so long known him??
i'm sorry but the introduction was a bit long..... just jump into spirit of the laws already =,= - P.S. didn't Hobbes and Locke come earlier? (In regards to political theory and american political thought.)
@thib565 The British education system doesn't really cover enlightenment though at all, whereas in France and the US its an integral part of the nations histories. That and British students are far to modest and won't put their hands up even when they do know the answer. This has been my experience anyway.
In a word, Utterly Tendentious. Okay, two words, fused together in the name of AM--his conservative Raj Anglo-centric reading of Montesquieu. Read Dickens for counter-factual "anthropologies" to AM....far more rewarding, aesthetically and morally. RM teaches social anglopology.
Many white american racist love to contextomize Montesquieu's quotes against slavery. Montesqquieu uses sacarstic quotes as if he agrees with slavery as a way to reveal its absurdity. Be Blessed, Peace & Shalom,
LOL "the british are far too modest" i can read that! Anyway too bad that they dont teach the enlightenment century, just the beginning of our society as we know it.
This lecture can be found with much better audio quality on the website of the University of Cambridge. I found it via Alan Macfarlane's Homepage which is mentioned above. Go to "Lectures" and then "Classical Social Theorists".
thank you, the audio is still terrible, but there is a transcript
Not much better really
Both are Awful!
This chap needs to Re do this lecture.
It's very edifying stuff though I'm not an academic or scholar.
Someone drag him into a studio and download him.
He's wonderful and it's a bore struggling thru the audio.
Or Elon Musk will upload him into C3PO and turn all the Trekkies off.
Please Sir. Encor Encore and Bravo!
This lecture can be found with much better audio quality on the website of the University of Cambridge: upload.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1411400. I found it via Alan Macfarlane's Homepage which is mentioned above. Go to "Lectures" and then "Classical Social Theorists".
Thanks for the lectures, but this audio is really bad.
I want to say that I very much appreciate you uploading these videos. It allows all of us who will never be able to go to these great schools to learn a bit about these great thinkers. Thank you so much.
I'm really enjoying all the videos you made on here - this is real democratisation. I'm a Brit, studying in Europe (online), have to work at the same time, but I'm learning so much from these videos - thank you!
Is it possible to put up a new version with an improved soundtrack? I'd love to view the entire class, but the sound quality gets really tiresome after a while.
@ReverandCiderMan I have only recently heard of it as a 1st year undergrad in sociology at Goldsmiths, Lewisham, London. The Enlightenment was not so much a PRODUCT of England, but it affected all of Europe in unique, nation specific ways. I have never heard of enlightenment ideas in schools, we did not even cover it in A level philosophy, although we covered many of the thinkers Kant!
University was a godsend to me, I have learnt more this year than I have at any time in my life!
Wonderful lecture, terrible audio quality.
Oh, dat sound quality..
@renatocsteam Não deixe a barreira da língua impedir você, recomendo que aprenda o idioma inglês. E algo extremamente necessário visto o grande numero de estudos que se encontram nessa língua.
Abraços
Boas
You can tell it took extra effort to produce such an outstanding sound effects! It is fascinating how such a simple task as recording sound could be done so badly as to ruin what was a great lecture. Well done both the lecture and the recorder!
Many thanks. I'm following your 8 lectures, very very kind of you.
With regard to sound, I think it improved hugely when you put into your pocket the cable which was hanging loose.
Ill come back to this after I've read montesquieu.
downloaded the pdf. many thanks
Xiaoxiao Yan! Buddy! What is up with the sound o_O?! I guess it was 2007. @ least it is in colour.
This lecture can be found with much better audio quality on the website of the University of Cambridge. I found it via Alan Macfarlane's Homepage which is mentioned above. Go to "Lectures" and then "Classical Social Theorists".
sorry about this - what is microport and how do I use? Alan
@lobotomizedman No, that was Weber, Plato conceptualised the "ideal forms".
Ideal types are social categories that are a useful way to start from when theorising but can intertwine with others and combine and discount aspects.
The ideal forms are more about the perfection of attributes, Plato uses beauty as an example. Plato was more deterministic I think as he says that there is a "ideal" to attributes which is highly subjective, Weber allows for this with a little creativity.
If you can read the essays of Montaigne, then perhaps you might be able to confirm with me whether this statement is true or not -- that this writer was really Montesquieu before him or that Montesquieu was really just Montiagne after him!
lovely gesture
2nd year at Cambridge equates to age 14 in Japan.
Very interesting.
I emigrant Honorably Now.
Desca...
Thanks that is helpful, Alan
Offtopic: do you find it mildly amusing that there are people complaining about the audio? The way it sounds is generally speaking how I always hear! I suppose I can count it is as a pleasure that I do not have to say this aloud to you!
What do they learn in highschool? Its crazy at each beginning of the lectures he asks who knows about the author and his theory and each time noone is able to answer. I learned those stuff in highschool. Durkheim and Weber and Gellner are more for universities because its the follow up of what has been written by "les Lumières".
in fact, it is something that you used (I haven't noticed it first, sorry), next time try to either test the quality of sound (which might be quite difficult ooz t takes time) or try aditional voce recorder (espescially when lecturer is ot moving)- then you could delete original soundtrack in final cut pro and use the voice recorder recording (you would have to ensure that both recordings are continuous and that you synchronizethem while editing). Hope that hels
The Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu
sound is really bad, next time try to use microport
great presentation but awful recording.
You brrought him to life beyond just his theories! Great job
Great lecture , VERY VERY bad audio recording technique.
sound is horrendous unfortunately
wonderful stuff. i've been looking at other Mac lectures for hours now. here's a give-back: if you want to know something, google for it: )
you tube is probably the best thing to happen for education since.. long time... language? the tit?
so mr Mac, what comments do you have for that and all the emerging interfacing and info sets? is this the end of man as we have so long known him??
could you spend a couple quid on your recording equipment ?
i'm sorry but the introduction was a bit long..... just jump into spirit of the laws already =,= - P.S. didn't Hobbes and Locke come earlier? (In regards to political theory and american political thought.)
Funny how the Checks and Balances of Power the Monetary System was some left out of his Intellectual Equation.
Accident? ??
yes Hobbes and Locke where earlier than Montesquieu
Yes,this is still great lecture.
Thanks ayabaya
I am happy I did not pay money to hear 3 minutes of info Oxforded into an hour, but the time was ill spent.
@thib565
The British education system doesn't really cover enlightenment though at all, whereas in France and the US its an integral part of the nations histories. That and British students are far to modest and won't put their hands up even when they do know the answer. This has been my experience anyway.
In a word, Utterly Tendentious. Okay, two words, fused together in the name of AM--his conservative Raj Anglo-centric reading of Montesquieu. Read Dickens for counter-factual "anthropologies" to AM....far more rewarding, aesthetically and morally. RM teaches social anglopology.
Biographie de Montesquieu
no he's actually great. Look into it
Many white american racist love to contextomize Montesquieu's quotes against slavery. Montesqquieu uses sacarstic quotes as if he agrees with slavery as a way to reveal its absurdity. Be Blessed, Peace & Shalom,
27:52
sepaeration of powers!
LOL "the british are far too modest" i can read that! Anyway too bad that they dont teach the enlightenment century, just the beginning of our society as we know it.