Totalitarians of Western Philosophy
Running through some of the most beloved texts in Western political philosophy. They are loved for their ingenuity and beauty. But they are respected and believed for their screeching authoritarianism. You might see episodes on...Plato, Hobbes, Rousseau. Hegel, Nietzsche, Zizek, Pettit, etc.
Totalitarians of Western Philosophy
A Totalitarian Strand of Classical Liberalism
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Little Crispy
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Season 1
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Episode 11
'You are free when you are the lawgiver of yourself". That's Rousseau, but then it's also Kant, Hegel, Habermas, Brandom etc. By an amazing coincidence, the laws you give yourself are word-for-word the laws we've given you. This approach amounts to a disingenuous disinformation program.
videos on conceptions of freedom in western philosophy:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUz6jqVz4W1LtmhTkTejFtyTMn9ZRMGx_