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Becoming Human

Samuel Loncar, Ph.D.

Becoming Human with the philosopher Samuel Loncar is a show for a species in transition. The show features long-form, solo series that bring scholarly depth and academic insights to today"s most pressing questions around science, religion, technology, and philosophy. Between these long-form, solo series, enjoy Explorations: journeys into time, culture, art, and history, encountering the mystery of the Human in conversations and free-standing episodes. Series 1: Origins, tells the story of the

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20:58

How Do We Know What is Good?, Tao Series Ep. 3

Becoming Human ·

2025/01/10

We all want to do good, but we rarely think about how we can know what the good is. In this video, I discuss Verse 8 of the Tao and its highly logical and practical insights into what is good in any situation and how we can know that we are doing what is good for ourselves and others. SERIES: Tao Te Ching Instructor: Samuel Loncar, Ph.D. | Yale University Episode 3, Tao Te Ching

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34:23

Was J.R.R. Tolkien a Great Philosopher? Why Stories...

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2025/01/10

Tolkien’s works have sold over 100 Million copies worldwide because they address the deepest questions humans can ask: Why is there evil and death in the world? Would Immorality be a good thing? Where did the world come from, and where is it going? Tolkien reveals a new and deeper way to engage humanity’s search for meaning and hope. SERIES Philosophy of Angels, Ep. 4 | Samuel Loncar, Ph.D. (Yale)

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The Philosophy of UAP in Scientific and Historical...

Becoming Human ·

2025/01/03

The topic of UAP (UFOs) is important yet difficult to discuss coherently. Why? Because the topic requires the best tools of science and scholarship but does not agree on what those are or how they should be applied. My philosophy of science and religion provides clues to navigating profound changes in human’s cosmic understanding, including the UAP phenomenon. The rise of the concept of agency in biology and AI connect to Carl Jung’s psychological interpretation of the phenomenon as a manifestation

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55:38

The Exile and Return of the Light: Hanukkah,...

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2024/12/28

Did you know Hanukkah and Christmas encode deep philosophical ideas about Enlightenment, becoming Superhuman, and the Future of Humanity? The stars and the gods once governed the night sky and the dreams humans had of themselves. The Human story was thus told as a mystery of light, the evolution of the universe, and the fate of the stars. The Philosophy of Angels, Ep. 2

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Is the Greatest Good Achieved by Struggle or Flow?...

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2024/12/23

Can yielding and flowing really be the Way to attain the good? Bruce Lee thought so. “Be Water,” he famously said, channeling a central insight of the Tao Te Ching, one of great works of Chinese Philosophy.

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32:04

The Messengers: A Philosophy of Angels, Ep. 1

Becoming Human ·

2024/12/21

The idea of Angels, whether we believe in them or not, reveals secrets about human consciousness and how to transform it. In this episode, I use the German poet Rilke to connect deep patterns across Judaism, Islam, and Christianity and other traditions, found in their shared understanding of angels as messengers that lead to revolutionary transformations of human consciousness. Ultimately, we discover that humans across all time, cultures, and traditions all believe in some idea of what angels are,

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What is the Way and How do I Find it? Explorations Ep. 7

Becoming Human ·

2024/12/11

What is the Way? The Way, or Tao, is the central mystery of life, according to the Tao Te Ching, one of the greatest works of Chinese philosophy. So how do we find the Tao? What does the Way look like? This video answers that question by introducing the Tao Te Ching, and the mystery of Return... Join me at the Becoming Human Project today!

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What is Life and is it Good?, Explorations, Ep. 6

Becoming Human ·

2024/12/10

Is life a momentary fragment, a meaningless event? Or Is life an eternal and glorious process and event? These two different ideas of life—life as intrinsically meaningless or life as intrinsically meaningful—are connected to our emotional reactions and ultimately our idea of time and our world.

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Scientific Facts and How They Grow: Science as...

Becoming Human ·

2024/01/26

Science is the only tradition that actively admits its own errors, gaining deeper knowledge by overcoming its tendency to orthodoxy. This happens when scientific revolutions shatter existing paradigms. The process begins with anomalies, potential facts that do not fit the paradigm. The physicist Sabine Hossenfelder sees many anomalies in current physics, and argues that physics today has lost its way because physics has followed the wrong rules, rules of beauty rather than rules proper to science

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48:30

Things Ancient and New: The Logic of Scientific...

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2024/01/12

According to Thomas Kuhn, the most mature sciences have only a limited tolerance for novelty. Contrary to the common image of scientific progress as a continuous series of discoveries, Kuhn shows it’s actually the progress of paradigms towards ever greater precision. Progress in normal science thus does not aim at novelty but the enrichment of the depth and concreteness of the theory. Drawing on the the insights of Edward Witten’s defense of string theory, Episode 5 of Kuhn: The Structure of

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52:26

Can Science Be Complete? Thomas Kuhn, Progress, and...

Becoming Human ·

2023/12/22

The longing for a complete science is one of the great dreams of modernity. Is such a complete science possible, and can Kuhn’s idea of a paradigm help us realize it? This episode explores the origins and power of the search for completeness and unity in Western science, and reveals the unexpected spiritual origins of this ideal. Ep. 4, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: An Introduction

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What is a Paradigm? Normal Science and Pseudo-Science

Becoming Human ·

2023/12/15

Thomas Kuhn coined the concept of a paradigm to describe the unique achievement of science. Since Kuhn, the terms “paradigm” and “paradigm shift” have entered into popular culture, but what really is a paradigm? How does it connect to normal science? And can it help us distinguish real science from pseudo-science? All these questions, and more, are explored in this episode of my series on Kuhn. Episode 3, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: An Introduction

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The Revolution is History: Kuhn and the History of...

Becoming Human ·

2023/12/08

Thomas Kuhn argued that history would change our image of science, causing a revolution we are still unprepared to face. This Kuhnian revolution challenges traditional epistemology by arguing we must look to science itself to understand how knowledge develops, and looking to science demands facing history. This episode of my course on Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions explores these issues, and more.

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Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific...

Becoming Human ·

2023/12/01

What is Science? What happened in the Scientific Revolution? How does Science progress? Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is the most influential book in the history and philosophy of science, addressing these and other key questions. This public series offers an introduction to this major work and includes a discussion of Kuhn's core ideas: paradigm shifts, normal and revolutionary science, and more.

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How to Become an Individual: The Eternal in Kierkegaard

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2023/10/27

On Nov. 11, 1855, after an astoundingly rich yet brief life, Søren Aabye Kierkegaard died. He requested his epitaph read simply: “That Individual.” The “single individual” is the soul of Kierkegaard’s work, but what does it mean to become an individual? This final episode of Kierkegaard: The Poet of Existence, explores the mystery of freedom and true individuality, and how they relate to the Eternal. COURSE RELEASE 8pm EST 10.27.2023 Course Link: www.samuelloncar.com/courses Course Code:

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October 7: Why Antisemitism is a Global Philosophical...

Becoming Human ·

2023/10/17

As a philosopher and scholar who writes about Christian-Jewish relations and modern German thought, I offer in this lecture an analysis of antisemitism as a philosophical problem, show its global scope, and explore its historical and existential significance as a threat to any vision of universal human flourishing. Referenced Materials Becoming Human: Origins Christianity's Shadow Founder: Marcion, Anti-Judaism, and The Birth of Protestant Liberalism Why Antisemitism is Our Problem

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Existential Ontology, Consumer Capitalism, & The...

Becoming Human ·

2023/10/10

Kierkegaard's theory of the three stages of life, the aesthetic, ethical, and religious offers profound insight into the existential realities of human life. Building on the prior two episodes on the aesthetic and ethical stages, this episode explores the meaning of the religious phase by exhibiting existential ontology in relationship to sexual and erotic desire, consumer capitalism, and humans' habit of turning people, including themselves, into mere things. Purchase Code: BECOMINGHUMAN |

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Kierkegaard's Theory of Stages: Fear and Trembling &...

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2023/09/22

Fear and Trembling is the most famous book by Kierkegaard, but to understand it we have to understand his theory of stages. This episode explores the ethical stage and illustrates it through Fear and Trembling and Judge Wilhelm of Either /Or. Additional topics covered include esotericism in philosophy, romantic marriage, the erotic sphere, the religious stage, and Kierkegaard’s concept of the Self as an achievement. Series Description Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher and religious thinker,

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Philosophy, Roomba, and Taco Carts: A Conversation...

Becoming Human ·

2023/06/14

Chef Arturo Franco Camacho is the Culinary Director and Executive Chef of three of New Haven’s best restaurants: Geronimo’s Southwestern Kitchen, Shell & Bones Oyster Bar, and Camacho Garage. His restaurants are not only a destination for great food but fantastic atmosphere. Trained at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA), the world’s premiere culinary college, he has worked as a chef at restaurants in Spain, France, and London, and spent five years as chef aboard the world’s top cruise ship, the

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Kierkegaard's Theory of Stages: The Aesthetic Stage |...

Becoming Human ·

2023/05/24

Kierkegaard is famous for his theory of the three stages on life's way, the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious. Though much discussed, the stages are enigmatic and confusing to many readers. This episode outlines the nature of the theory of stages in its profound significance, and it introduces the aesthetic phase and its emphasis on possibility and seduction. Series Description Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher and religious thinker, created one of the most consequential bodies of

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