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• #169a - Death: Shelly Kagan on Plato, Immortality, Physicalism versus Dualism, Individual Continuity Across Time and Space, Arguing the Existence of the Soul, Phaedo and Socrates, Memento Mori

  Patreon/Tip Jar: ⁠https://patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreon⁠Table of Contents Below >>>Original Course Listing on YouTube:⁠https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEA18FAF1AD9047B0⁠Buy Prof. Kagan's Book on Death:https://a.co/d/8FnPcW1About the Course (Yale)There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact? This course will examine a number of issues that arise once we begin to reflect on our mortality. The possibility that death may not actually be the end is considered. Are we, in some sense, immortal? Would immortality be desirable? Also a clearer notion of what it is to die is examined. What does it mean to say that a person has died? What kind of fact is that? And, finally, different attitudes to death are evaluated. Is death an evil? How? Why? Is suicide morally permissible? Is it rational? How should the knowledge that I am going to die affect the way I live my life?Link to Syllabus/Readings and Course Description:https://oyc.yale.edu/death/phil-176This course has 26 lectures - these (169a) are the first 13, in order. The forthcoming 169b will contain the back half. Shelly says 1-13 are about metaphysics of death, and 14-26 are about value theory of death.Chapters(00:00:00) Intro(00:01:57) Course Introduction(00:45:47) The Nature of Persons(01:23:52) Arguments for the Existence of the Soul I(02:05:09) Arguments for the Existence of the Soul II: Plato's Phaedo(02:47:38) Arguments for the Existence of the Soul III: Free Will and Near-Death Experiences(03:30:56) Arguments for the Existence of the Soul IV: Plato Part 1(04:03:00) Plato Part II(04:44:30) Plato Part III(05:26:55) Plato Part IV(06:09:08) Personal Identity Part I: Identity Across Space and Time and the Soul Theory(06:49:07) Personal Identity Part II: Body and Personality Theory(07:33:58) Personal Identity Part III: Objections to the Personality Theory(08:17:42) Personal Identity Part IV: What Matters?(08:58:21) Schubert Impromptu No. 3 in G-Flat Major performed by Max John, CC License, YouTube-//-

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• Hemlock #26 - Targeting the Death Star with Guillermo Zapata: Palantir, ICE Camps, Peter Thiel & the Antichrist, Vaclav Havel, Star Wars and Rogue One, Maersk/BDS, Deporting Zohran, Melancholia, Gaza

  Support the Rebel Alliance: https://patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreonPeople Mentioned:Mahmoud KhalilMaria LugonesByung-Chul HanLars von Trier (dir. Melancholia, 2011)Hannah ArendtTyson YunkaportaConcepts:Kenosis (self-emptying)Books:Putnam, Bowling AloneNews/References:Zinc Mine in Georgia/https://thecurrentga.org/2025/06/20/okefenokee-mine-sale-conservation-fund/Minister of Loneliness UKhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/minister-loneliness-appointed-united-kingdom-180967883/Guy dies in ICE Facilityhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/30/us-ice-detention-deathsFinger Shot Off (graphic)https://www.resetera.com/threads/los-angeles-police-blew-off-my-finger-for-protesting-ice-content-warning-amputation.1233627/ChatGPT Datacenter Depletes Groundwaterhttps://energytheory.com/chatgpts-thirsty-data-centers-are-draining-water-resources/Peter Thiel/Greta Thunberg Interviewhttps://archive.ph/HTIF6Palestinian Youth Movement and Mask off Maerskhttps://www.maskoffmaersk.com/Andrew Callaghan Channel Five Uranium Minehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcPsy8734Vg&pp=ygUlYW5kcmV3IGNhbGxhZ2hhbiBjaGFubmVsIGZpdmUgdXJhbml1bQ%3D%3D

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• Hemlock #25 - Maturity: Taoism, Confucianism, Epicureanism, Kierkegaard's Aesthetic/Hedonistic Way of Life, the Origins of Evil, Ahimsa/Nonviolence, and Disputing the Tao

  Patreon: https://patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreonPhoto Credit:Morning Tai Chi by Shuolong MaMusic Credit:Music Copyright Kevin MacLeodhttps://youtu.be/qGAcClayOqkCoconut Tree Meme Musichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_5nHIbsjoBooks/SourcesHans-Georg Moeller Daoism Explainedhttps://www.amazon.com/Daoism-Explained-Butterfly-Fishnet-Allegory/dp/0812695631Oliver Sacks, the Man Who Mistook His Wife for a HatIain McGilchrist, the Master and His EmissaryJean Piaget, Concrete Operational/Formal Operationalhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaget%27s_theory_of_cognitive_development#Concrete_operational_stage

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• Hemlock #24 - Countdown: Journalist Sarah Scoles on Nuclear Weapons Safety, Jill Tarter and SETI, Nuclear LARPing, the Golden Dome and Missile Defense, and What Really Happens at Los Alamos

  Buy Sarah's Book:https://a.co/d/6zROOvVSarah's Socials:Website: https://www.sarahscoles.com/books.htmlBsky: https://bsky.app/profile/sarahscoles.bsky.socialPatreon:https://patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreonREFERENCES:Trump Golden Dome Cost ProjectionSDI / Star Wars in the 1980s with ReaganCosts associated with SENTINEL and ICBM UpgradesFallout and Downwinders, Thyroid Cancer, Nevada Test SiteContact: A Novel by Carl SaganBeethoven's 13th String QuartetYear Zero - Rob ReidHegemony or Survival - Noam ChomskyRussell-Einstein Manifesto on Abolition of War/NukesKellogg/Briand Pact 1928 Abolishing WarOperation Able Archer 83CHROMEDOME/Goldsboro B-52 Crash in NCPalomares Incident in SpainCarnegie Corporation Psychologists:-Moran Cerf-Paul Slovic

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• Consolatio #5 - For the Evil, Show Your Pity: Book 4 of the Consolation of Philosophy, All Things Depend Upon Will and Power, Virtue is the Health of the Soul, Our Aim Is To Be Unlike Those We Hate

  At long last, Book 4 of the 5-book masterpiece, De Consolatione de Philosophiae by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius. Translated by W. V. Cooper, critical edition by Goins and Wyman.I would describe this one as "a comfy doozy slightly too close to home."Enjoy~

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