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Learn philosophy from YouTube!

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  Quick tips 👌 YouTube is full with garbage, choose what you watch carefully. 👻 Find the actual philosophers explaining their own views. 💥Interviews and debates  make philosophers respond to criticism. Lectures allow them to go on and on without resistance, so avoid them. 💪The comment section can help you understand the video.  ☝Commit your thoughts to a comment. Some short videos to get you started 1.  What is truth?  4 min 2.  Does god exist?  10 min  3.  How does watching a suicide make you feel?  3 min 4.  Does the bible condemn homosexuality?  13 min 5.  What is an intellectual?  4 min Channels with lots of good content 1.   Best philosopher interviews out there 2.  Interviews with the greatest analytic philosophers 3.  The Oxford Union debates
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How to learn philosophy?

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  How to learn philosophy? December 05, 2021 By "learn philosophy" I simply mean to have the ability to understand philosophical texts and to find answers in them. I don't mean the ability to write academic articles nor (obviously!) the ability to produce your own philosophical system.  Now that I've brought the conversation down to earth let me explain that this is a worthwhile aim  if  you are the kind of person who has an inner flow of philosophical questions.  If you grew up with this inner voice, it won't go away no matter how much you ignore it or pretend it isn't there. So since you have to live with the questions anyway, it's better to try and do something with them.  If on the other hand, you don't have these questions, I would question your motives: some people want to engage with philosophy because of its prestige or because it makes them sound profound. Don't be this kind of person, spend your time engaging with something that is your t...
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Zoom links

Georges Bataille: TBD  Nietzsche and Bookworms: https://huntercollege.zoom.us/j/4278613680 Marxism: TBD Taoism: TBD Camus, Aristotle and Stoicism: https://zoom.us/j/94372379071?pwd=M28xZjNDeFVlQkdBNEUybzl4ZnhKQT09 All Yorgo ( not  Yorgo D.) groups (namely, Philosophy of Science, Stirner, Plato, Introduction to Philosophy, film but not  Bataille): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2018595025
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Reading Groups for the 2nd Week of November (8-14 November)

  Reading Groups for the 2nd Week of November (8-14 November) Tuesday • 20.30 GMT Georges Bataille with Yorgo D. NEW reading The Accursed Share Zoom link TBD Wednesday • 20.30 GMT Stirner with Yorgo  reading  The Unique and its Property Zoom link
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Reading Groups for the 1st-Week of November

Reading Groups for the 1st-Week of November Wednesday • 20:30 GMT - Stirner (new time, only for this week)                          ‣ reading: The Ego and Its Own Thursday • 20:00 GMT - Epistemology Special Event:                           ‣Extract by Paul Feyerabend                            ‣ Extract by Allan Chalmers on Feyerabend Friday • 14:00 GMT - Nietzsche                          ‣ Review of On the Use and Abuse of History  NEW • 19.30 GMT - Marxism  ‣ The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels • 23:00 GMT - Taoism                          ‣ reading: The Book of Chuang Tzu, chapter 4                 ...
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