Wittgenstein – The Limits of My Language Are the Limits of My World

October 8, 2019 at 7:29 am | Articles, Blog | Ruben Talley -

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. This is probably one of most quoted adages of all time and it was written by this man. Ludwig Wittgenstein. A philosopher who, by many, is considered the greatest of the 20th century. His role in the development of analytic philosophy wasn’t just central, but also

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“Wittgenstein – The Limits of My Language Are the Limits of My World”

Natural Law Theory: Crash Course Philosophy #34

October 5, 2019 at 4:29 pm | Articles, Blog | Ruben Talley -

Thomas Aquinas was no dummy. Remember him? The Italian fella? Christian monk? Philosophical superstar of the 13th century? Aquinas thought morality was important for everyone, and that being a good person was a vital part of God’s plan for each of us. But he knew that not everyone had been exposed to the Bible, or

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“Natural Law Theory: Crash Course Philosophy #34”

What If You Woke Up 1,000 Years In The Future?

October 2, 2019 at 8:29 pm | Articles, Blog | Ruben Talley -

So Quora asked this really interesting question, that being what if you woke up 1,000 years in the future, what would you do? I’m sure you could ask many questions to people around that time period, let’s say 3000 AD, and you have to wonder what society would be like that many years in the

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“What If You Woke Up 1,000 Years In The Future?”

PSYCHOTHERAPY – Sigmund Freud

September 30, 2019 at 8:31 am | Articles, Blog | Ruben Talley -

This is a thinker who helps us understand why our lives and relationships are full of so much confusion and pain. He tells us why life is hard, and how to cope. His own life incurred a lot of anxiety. Sigmund Schlomo Freud was born to a middle-class Jewish family in 1856. His professional life

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“PSYCHOTHERAPY – Sigmund Freud”

Hegel & Marx – Peter Singer & Bryan Magee

September 28, 2019 at 3:29 pm | Articles, Blog | Ruben Talley -

Few philosophers have more obviously changed the world than Hegel, both personally through his influence on German Nationalism, and indirectly through the work of his most famous philosophical disciple, Karl Marx, after whom a great many governments in our own day actually call themselves. So if we want to see some of the practical consequences

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“Hegel & Marx – Peter Singer & Bryan Magee”

What Is Justice?: Crash Course Philosophy #40

at 10:29 am | Articles, Blog | Ruben Talley -

Justice is one of those things that people talk about all the time, without really being specific about what they mean. Activists talk about economic justice. Police and lawyers talk about criminal justice. Parents, teachers, and students talk about justice a lot, too, though they may never use that word. When there’s a fight on

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“What Is Justice?: Crash Course Philosophy #40”

Has France Given Up on Liberty? | Guest: Alexandre Pesey | Ep 32

September 27, 2019 at 3:29 pm | Articles, Blog | Ruben Talley -

– Welcome to Kibbe on Liberty. Today we do something a little bit different. We’re talking to Alexandre Pesey, and he is the head of the Free Market Institute based in Paris, France. That’s right, there are free marketeers in France. We’re gonna talk about the Yellow Vest protest, where it went right, where it

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“Has France Given Up on Liberty? | Guest: Alexandre Pesey | Ep 32”

The Enlightenment: Crash Course European History #18

September 23, 2019 at 12:30 pm | Articles, Blog | Ruben Talley -

Hi I’m John Green and this is Crash Course European History. So far, we’ve seen a ton of political change and continuing warfare in the midst of the seventeenth century’s little ice age, and history often focuses on these types of political and military stories, but there were also other changes occurring: shifts in how

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“The Enlightenment: Crash Course European History #18”

Libertarian Philosophy: Rawls and Nozick on Liberty & Equality – Learn Liberty

September 21, 2019 at 2:29 pm | Articles, Blog | Ruben Talley -

One way to think about this tension between liberty and equality is to look at an exchange that took place between two of the great American political philosophers in the 20th century, Robert Nozick and John Rawls. John Rawls had argued that equality was really the benchmark, the moral benchmark, for social and political institutions

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“Libertarian Philosophy: Rawls and Nozick on Liberty & Equality – Learn Liberty”

Biblical Series I: Introduction to the Idea of God

September 9, 2019 at 4:29 pm | Articles, Blog | Ruben Talley -

[CLASSICAL MUSIC] [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS] Well, thank you all very much for coming to this. It’s really shocking to me that you don’t have anything better to do on a Tuesday night. [AUDIENCE LAUGHTER] No, but seriously, though, it is. I mean, it’s very strange in some sense that there’s so many of you here

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“Biblical Series I: Introduction to the Idea of God”

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