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Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Benjamin Kozlowski

Professor Kozlowski lectures on various subjects in Philosophy, Theology, and the Humanities. For a list of courses and projects, visit his website at: https://professorkozlowski.wordpress.com/

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01:30:22

Goethe's Romanticism

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2021/09/23

Professor Kozlowski guides us carefully through Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, Wertherism, and the tangled, radical philosophy of Romanticism as we embark on our study of nineteenth-century philosophy. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at profbkozlowski2@gmail.com To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his webpage: https://professorkozlowski.wordpress.com/

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01:43:28

Rousseau vs. Feminism

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2021/09/23

Professor Kozlowski pits Rousseau's dubious pedagogical advice against the clear-sighted feminism of Mary Wollstonecroft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in this last examination of love in The Enlightenment. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at profbkozlowski2@gmail.com To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his webpage: https://professorkozlowski.wordpress.com/

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01:41:38

Spinoza, Kant, and the Enlightenment

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2021/09/22

Continuing through history, Professor Kozlowski discusses excerpts of Spinoza's Ethics, briefly recounts the intellectual history leading up to The Enlightenment (including its greatest accomplishments and most egregious shortcomings), and concludes by examining Kant's lecture "On Friendship", in which Kant approaches the tradition of Cicero and Montaigne with his characteristic keen incisiveness. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at

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01:44:22

Montaigne and the Renaissance

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2021/09/22

Professor Kozlowski discusses the rapidly-changing world of Modern Europe, from the Renaissance to the Protestant Reformation to the Scientific Revolution, in order to contextualize and understand the writings of Montaigne, Francis Bacon, and John Milton. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at profbkozlowski2@gmail.com To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his webpage: https://professorkozlowski.wordpress.com/

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01:37:22

Dante and Beatrice

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2021/09/18

Professor Kozlowski takes a break from philosophy proper to discuss the Love of the poets and artists of the late medieval and early modern era, focusing primarily on the romance of Dante and Beatrice as it is depicted in The Divine Comedy. He specifically emphasizes how Dante is uniting the transcendent, holy love tradition in Medieval philosophy (evident in writers like Aquinas) and the courtly love tradition, to produce a new synthesis that will be the foundation of modern attitudes toward love

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01:14:00

Aquinas - Friendship is Charity

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2021/09/18

Professor Kozlowski goes for a (relatively) brief walk through the woolly area of Thomist philosophy: examining how Aquinas distinguishes between concupiscent and friendly love and how friendly love is, for Aquinas, one and the same with the Christian notion of "charity" - or transcendent, Godly love. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at profbkozlowski2@gmail.com To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his webpage:

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01:41:05

Islam and Courtly Love

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2021/09/15

Professor Kozlowski commits a hat-trick of irresponsible academic conjecture by (1) wading deep into a contentious discussion that (2) he is woefully under-informed about, and (3) which involves a cultural/religious heritage he does not belong to. But seriously, how the heck can anyone miss the connection between Islamic teaching about love (ca. 11th-12th century) and the Courtly Love tradition (esp. regarding Arthurian Romance)? Better to bring it up badly than perpetuate the cultural blindness

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01:44:56

Augustine and the Evolution of Christianity

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2021/09/15

Professor Kozlowski largely abandons today's reading from Augustine's Confessions in order to embark on a brief history of the early Christian church, tracking its evolution from a guerrilla religion fleeing from Roman authorities, through its acceptance as the state religion of Rome, growing through schism, and the rise of the papacy, monasticism, and religious reform. Where does Christianity end and secular power begin? How much of developing Christianity is indebted to stoicism, Neo-Platonism, or

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01:51:28

Christianity - God is Love

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2021/09/08

It's time to talk about Christianity, and how it radically changed Western Culture's understanding of Love. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at profbkozlowski2@gmail.com To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his webpage: https://professorkozlowski.wordpress.com/

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01:41:29

Cicero - De Amicitia

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2021/09/08

Professor Kozlowski muses on the subject of how philosophy texts become "important" to the canon, the rise and fall of the Roman Empire - as a subject of philosophical study, and also (when forced) what Cicero actually has to say about friendship. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at profbkozlowski2@gmail.com To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his webpage: https://professorkozlowski.wordpress.com/

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01:43:02

Rome, Stoicism, and (Avoiding) Love

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2021/09/07

Professor Kozlowski crosses the Rubicon to discuss the rise of the Roman Empire, its widespread (and politically-motivated?) embrace of stoicism, and how that informs Roman attitudes on hero-worship and suspicion against Love. Today we're reading Theano's "Letter on Marriage and Fidelity", selections from Ovid's The Art of Love, Lucretius' argument against love from On the Nature of Things, and the first third of Cicero's De Amicitia. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor

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01:53:52

Love in Eastern Philosophy

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2021/09/07

Professor Kozlowski ventures into Eastern Philosophy to discuss alternative attitudes toward love and friendship, as well as draw comparisons and contrasts to Western traditions like stoicism. It's hardly a comprehensive study, but hopefully it will help to offer a sense of Eastern traditions and the questions asked by those traditions. Today we discuss Chapters 15-16 of the Dhammapada; Chapters 2, 3, and 5 of the Kama Sutra; Chapter 1 of the Analects of Confucious, and Chapter 15 of Mozi. If you

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01:38:25

Aristotle on Friendship II - Nicomachean Ethics IX:...

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2021/09/01

Professor Kozlowski wanders through the series of questions asked and answered by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics IX. Along the way, he'll discuss the self-destructiveness of viciousness, the relationship of self to friend, and the ways that friendship is shaped by attitude and perspective. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at profbkozlowski2@gmail.com To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his webpage:

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01:39:04

Aristotle on Friendship - Nicomachean Ethics VIII

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2021/09/01

Professor Kozlowski turns his attention from eros to philia in his discussion of Book VIII of the Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle. In this lecture he discusses Aristotle's overall project in Ethics, including a synopsis of Books I and II, before discussing the three species of friendship, and how friendship relates to government. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at profbkozlowski2@gmail.com To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his

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01:45:23

Plato's Symposium 2 - Agathon, Socrates, and...

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2021/08/30

Professor Kozlowski completes his encomium of Plato's Symposium by discussing the lives of Socrates and Alcibiades: how their love affair may have endangered the whole of Athenian civilization, and how Plato concludes his dialogue with the blind praise of a poet, the wisdom of a mysterious woman teacher, and the obsession of a deranged young man. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at profbkozlowski2@gmail.com To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to,

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01:45:50

Plato's Symposium 1 - Phaedrus through Aristophanes

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2021/08/30

Professor Kozlowski begins his encomium of the Symposium by discussing Greek cultural assumptions and how they relate and manifest in the first four speeches: Phaedrus' virtuous love, Pausanias' passionate (if disreputable) love, Erixymachus' love as a universal force, and Aristophanes' (comic?) love-myth. Perhaps, by synthesizing all these perspectives, we might come to see some true vision of love as Plato sees it. Or not... If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski,

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01:43:44

Love in the Old Testament

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2021/08/28

Time to discuss one of the earliest perspectives on love in the history of Western Civilization: the love between God and His people in the Old Testament. Follow along with Professor Kozlowski as he discusses the creation of the universe, the law given to Moses, and many of the most controversial issues in the Bible along the way. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at profbkozlowski2@gmail.com To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his

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01:47:36

Foucault - The Repressive Hypothesis

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2021/08/28

Taking on another overly-ambitious project, Professor Kozlowski attempts to discuss Foucault's early steps in his History of Sexuality, discussing his challenge to the traditional understanding of how sexuality has changed in modern history and locating the project among other efforts to study the history of philosophy. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at profbkozlowski2@gmail.com To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his webpage:

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01:41:23

What is Love? (Baby Don't Define Me)

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2021/08/27

Professor Kozlowski dives into the deep end of the ocean and gets thoroughly drowned in his early attempts to define love. Hopefully not without first learning a few things - in true Socratic fashion - along the way. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at profbkozlowski2@gmail.com To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his webpage: https://professorkozlowski.wordpress.com/

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01:23:38

Mythology FA21 Syllabus

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2021/08/27

Professor Kozlowski discusses the aspirations and expectations of the Mythology class at MSU by walking through the course syllabus. Every new semester means a few new changes in the curriculum, so we need to keep updating the syllabus to match. Sorry in advance to all you Internet listeners - maybe skip this one :/

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