Dr. Darren Staloff, The Philosophy of G. W. Leibniz

[@dialaskisel5929]

Ah, wonderful! This is the best of all possible lectures!

[@lanlin8267]

I see what you did there 🤣

[@cheri238]

Dr. Darren Staloff, I also have listened to all your lectures, as also Professor Sugrue's. At the time, I did not leave comments, for I am not tech savey. I am eternally grateful for your lectures also, for I love philosophy and history, and religion.

[@edr4374]

Thank you for the knowledge that you share.

[@RichMitch]

That's a hell of a look, Dr

[@taylorjones7585]

It was the nineties. Give him a break. ;)

[@tylerhulsey982]

Real 1996 energy

[@taylorjones7585]

@@tylerhulsey982 ehhh... imma have to go a bit earlier than 96, sir--we're delving more into the 92-93 range here, if I were to have to say about it

[@cheri238]

Lol, what? He is absolutely adorable and so intelligent. ❤️💯

[@arachnidiscs]

I came here to say this. 😂

[@enlightenedanalysis]

Thanks very much. Very interesting lecture.

[@bpmproductions5946]

Each lecture starts "______ was in many ways perhaps the most _____ philosopher of the _____ century" lol

[@erickomar3152]

lmao 🤗

[@trentw.3566]

The Stallof Template.

[@pearz420]

He probably had an annoying public speaking professor like I did. Dr. Sugrue has no problem starting with "I am going to talk about..."

[@IndianaJones-r5j]

Yeah well maybe that’s why there’s a lecture about them in the first place

[@DeistJonathan]

😂😂

[@markrankin6715]

Dr. Staloff is a charismatic and compelling teacher of philosophy 💙

[@OnerousEthic]

33:00 Libinitz conjures the Akashic Records, which touches on Vedanta, via Madam Blavatsky of the late 19th century Theosophical Society. This could be considered as The Dharma moving West. 42:58 Leibenetz channels Augustine on good and evil and free will and sin and the infinite universe.

[@BreezeTalk]

Thank you so much for uploading this.

[@willparker1404]

Earliest I’ve ever been to one of these lectures :))) very excited

[@tylerbotzon7174]

I hope Staloff knows how much we appreciate these leftures

[@logicaldude3611]

Leibniz’s theory of monads really unlocked a key part of my philosophy in regards to determinism, free will, and cause/effect over a decade ago.

[@TeaParty1776]

This is the best of all possible whirls.

[@ThePallidor]

Hume got it right. It's not that there is no external world, but that "external world" needs a more careful definition.

[@OnerousEthic]

So, Hume asked one good question, and that merits a blanket endorsement? Are you serious?

[@ThePallidor]

@@OnerousEthic Blanket endorsement? I just said he got this one thing right.

[@trentw.3566]

Hume is God. Try to remember that from now on. He wrote one false sentence out of hubris once and fools have decided to trash his entire name because of it. Silly.

[@JVMBeatz]

excellent lecture

[@michaelpattiani7230]

Agreed, all of his are pretty good

[@j4ckson206]

When were these lectures?

[@ivailopetrov2827]

@A. Dell wow feels older to me

[@timpryor5396]

Early to mid 90s. These are early Teaching Company courses. The company is now called The Great Courses with a streaming version called Wondrium. Used to listen to these on cassette lol. Now much more highly produced but nothing anywhere beats the teaching excellence of these old ones.

[@Mai-Gninwod]

OK, we've had a while to think about it now. What do we prefer, short hair goatee Darren or clean shaven ponytail Darren?

[@Igor_the_Mad]

Short hair and goatee, go full Gordon Freeman.

[@fatbruddawalkz5035]

Clean shaven ponytail

[@Rico-Suave_]

Watched all of it 46:29

[@williamwhitten7820]

*Monads sounds like the hologram theory of the universe.* *The holographic principle states that the entropy of ordinary mass (not just black holes) is also proportional to surface area and not volume; that volume itself is illusory and the universe is really a hologram which is isomorphic to the information "inscribed" on the surface of its boundary.*

[@OnerousEthic]

Libnitz seems more amenable to quantum theory than Einstein. I wonder if he had significant influence on Schrödenberg and Heidegger.

[@jmarz2600]

Leibniz did have an influence on Ernst Mach who greatly influenced Einstein with regards to Relativity - regarding the fact that, contra Newton, Space and Time were not "absolutes".

[@ChrisMusante]

How do I go about 'publishing' MY ''Theodicy'. I have resolved the question and can vindicate the Lord for 'creating' it [evil] (Isaiah 45:7 KJV) and also can actually show (via scriptures) why it is actually VERY 'good' that there 'is' evil - so as to be absolutely necessary.

[@patrickkilroy6512]

Some seriously abstract and jargon-filled subject matter. Kudos to the professor for making it more digestible. Communication is a problem that bedevils philosophy. Makes me realise why modern science has divorced itself from philosophy, forgoing any preconceived metaphysical doctrine in exchange for trust in the empirical methods and their internal logic. NOT because it has "solved" metaphysics, but quite the opposite. It realises that it is ill-equipped to do so. Mind you, many a scientist and truster of science seems to operate without knowledge of these limitations ...

[@cheri238]

@@Nature_Consciousness I totally agree 💯

[@OnerousEthic]

It seems that Leibenitz was obsessed with the zeitgeist of mystic vision that energized German Idealism. Nietzsche is not mentioned once. Nor Carl Jung. Nor Heidegger. Nor Hegel. But those are the voices I hear at his table.

[@marcobrambilla2439]

Outstanding

[@edmund184]

4:34 what is the evidence for this?

[@gerardlabeouf6075]

Amazing

[@czarquetzal8344]

Based on this lecture, it is possible to consider Liebniz to be one of the panpsychists.

[@euclidofalexandria3786]

14 mins, it has to do with the nature of space itself in regards to energy.

[@ttacking_you]

I'm going with cross modal abstraction

[@laolao2918]

Superb lecture but unfortunately I could not decipher what Dr. Staloff describes as what follows the endpoint of rationalism.

[@semuren]

British Empiricism

[@scottparkhurst5928]

Did he read Avceena?

[@christinemartin63]

🙈 ... are you kidding me? (Ya know ... some historian caculated that in the past 5500 years, there have been 14,000 wars--not battles--throughout the world.) Mr. Leibniz spent way too many years in the library or the university. Abre los ojos, hombre. And thank you, Voltaire!

[@thaaatheef]

Lol candide is too good

[@comradelupe6976]

I don't believe strongly in plagiarism, but i felt like he was reading verbatim from Russell's "History of western philosophy"

[@777khall]

18:41

[@drbonesshow1]

He tried to reconcile Lewis & Martin, but they didn't work out either.

[@alohaoliwa]

Dr. Darren… intelligent AND hot.

[@nikagarcia5223]

Was here early. 😅

[@darrellee8194]

Necessary not equal Analytic

[@TeaParty1776]

[Modern] [Philosophers came to be divided] into two camps: those who claimed that man obtains his knowledge of the world by deducing it exclusively from concepts, which come from inside his head and are not derived from the perception of physical facts (the Rationalists)-and those who claimed that man obtains his knowledge from experience, which was held to mean: by direct perception of immediate facts, with no recourse to concepts (the Empiricists). To put it more simply: those who joined the [mystics] by abandoning reality-and those who clung to reality, by abandoning their mind. For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand

[@pearz420]

"You will know them by their fruits".... Her only fruits that I have seen are smug book club enthusiasts and career politicians. I've never seen an interesting person impressed by her.

[@TeaParty1776]

@@pearz420 Look out at reality, not inward. Focus your mind.

[@TeaParty1776]

@@pearz420 The focused mind has many enemies.

[@TeaParty1776]

@@pearz420 Look out at reality, not inward. Focus your mind.

[@thespiritofhegel3487]

He makes delicious butter cookies too.

[@ju1cycrackfa1ry]

Gonads lol

[@austinmackell9286]

Even nomads are a made of monads, says nomad monadic man. No says nomadic no nomad man, nomads aren't made of monads.

[@cheekygrin6258]

Nomad monadic man enjoyed his lemonade on a hot nomadic day

[@pearz420]

Did you hear that from Bob Loblaw?

[@HelenBrown-s1j]

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[@abooswalehmosafeer173]

Hearing atom,atom,atom I see atom right in front of me,no need of any tool.

[@coreyrachar9694]

Oh nooo, not M'nads!

[@TheNeuralist]

"Parallelism" lol

[@duarquan]

So animals have don’t have self awareness 😅everything is self aware we are jst selfish an think nothing can think like me so it’s not alive when we live off the things u say don’t feel but they live like us here is alive not here is dead can u truly live off death

[@gerardlabeouf6075]

Amazing