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Professor Kozlowski Lectures
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/
Episodes
Professor Kozlowski LecturesTBK Book Two - "An Inapprorpiate Gathering"
Professor Kozlowski discusses Dostoevsky's over-ambitious first look at the Family Karamazov as they hide their insecurities with erudition (or stupidity)…
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Mythology SP22 Syllabus
Professor Kozlowski is sick, and couldn't go to class for his typical first-day-syllabus discussion. So it ended up here instead. New Brothers Karamazov…
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TBK Book One - "A Nice Little Family"
Professor Kozlowski discusses Dostoevsky's shamelessly expository first book of The Brothers Karamazov, including the "muddle-headed" and dissipated father…
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The Brothers Karamazov - Introduction
Professor Kozlowski embarks on a new semester-long project: reading through Dostoevsky's mammoth, messy magnum opus: The Brothers Karamazov. We'll be reading…
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Navel-Gazing and Other Techniques of the Self
Professor Kozlowski closes out his Love and Friendship class with some discussion of Foucault, but mostly by thinking out loud about the past, present, and…
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Queer Theory, Identity, Sexuality, and Shame
Professor Kozlowski well oversteps his expertise and discusses the ideas presented in early texts on Queer Theory, namely Michel Foucault's "Friendship as a…
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Feminism and Love
Professor Kozlowski continues his discussion of Love in the 20th Century by examining the four waves of feminism and touching on several important texts…
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Christian Apologists
Professor Kozlowski wanders off the beaten path of philosophical canon to discuss the attitudes on Love and Friendship most important to him personally: the…
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Freud!
Professor Kozlowski discusses Freud today. What could go wrong? CW: sex/sexuality, incest, rape, heteronormativity, childhood trauma, mental illness…
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Reacting to Romanticism: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard
Professor Kozlowski takes on some of the most divisive and dangerous thinkers in the history of the canon - along with some explanation of 19th-century…
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Goethe's Romanticism
Professor Kozlowski guides us carefully through Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, Wertherism, and the tangled, radical philosophy of Romanticism as we…
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Rousseau vs. Feminism
Professor Kozlowski pits Rousseau's dubious pedagogical advice against the clear-sighted feminism of Mary Wollstonecroft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman…
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Spinoza, Kant, and the Enlightenment
Continuing through history, Professor Kozlowski discusses excerpts of Spinoza's Ethics, briefly recounts the intellectual history leading up to The…
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Montaigne and the Renaissance
Professor Kozlowski discusses the rapidly-changing world of Modern Europe, from the Renaissance to the Protestant Reformation to the Scientific Revolution, in…
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Dante and Beatrice
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…
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Aquinas - Friendship is Charity
Professor Kozlowski goes for a (relatively) brief walk through the woolly area of Thomist philosophy: examining how Aquinas distinguishes between concupiscent…
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Islam and Courtly Love
Professor Kozlowski commits a hat-trick of irresponsible academic conjecture by (1) wading deep into a contentious discussion that (2) he is woefully…
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Augustine and the Evolution of Christianity
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…
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Christianity - God is Love
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…
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Cicero - De Amicitia
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…
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Rome, Stoicism, and (Avoiding) Love
Professor Kozlowski crosses the Rubicon to discuss the rise of the Roman Empire, its widespread (and politically-motivated?) embrace of stoicism, and how that…
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Love in Eastern Philosophy
Professor Kozlowski ventures into Eastern Philosophy to discuss alternative attitudes toward love and friendship, as well as draw comparisons and contrasts to…
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Aristotle on Friendship II - Nicomachean Ethics IX: The Friendening
Professor Kozlowski wanders through the series of questions asked and answered by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics IX. Along the way, he'll discuss the…
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Aristotle on Friendship - Nicomachean Ethics VIII
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…
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Plato's Symposium 2 - Agathon, Socrates, and Alcibiades: Millenia-old Love Triangle
Professor Kozlowski completes his encomium of Plato's Symposium by discussing the lives of Socrates and Alcibiades: how their love affair may have endangered…
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Plato's Symposium 1 - Phaedrus through Aristophanes
Professor Kozlowski begins his encomium of the Symposium by discussing Greek cultural assumptions and how they relate and manifest in the first four speeches…
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Love in the Old Testament
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…
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Foucault - The Repressive Hypothesis
Taking on another overly-ambitious project, Professor Kozlowski attempts to discuss Foucault's early steps in his History of Sexuality, discussing his…
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What is Love? (Baby Don't Define Me)
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…
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Mythology FA21 Syllabus
Professor Kozlowski discusses the aspirations and expectations of the Mythology class at MSU by walking through the course syllabus. Every new semester means a…
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Love and Friendship Syllabus, Fall 2021
Professor Kozlowski introduces Internet listeners and official students alike to his newest course at Ramapo College: The Philosophy of Love and Friendship. In…
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God of Wrath - God of Mercy
Professor Kozlowski interrupts his discussion of Phenomenology with a one-off lecture on a topic he is frequently asked to answer: How does a Christian…
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Bulgakov Conclusion
Professor Kozlowski gets a bit more introspective than usual, pairing his observations of the final chapters of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita…
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Bulgakov Chapters 24-26
Professor Kozlowski ties up a bunch of loose ends, Professor Woland cleans house, and Pilate engineers the creation of Christianity(?) - all in this…
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Bulgakov Chapters 19-23
Professor Kozlowski begins his discussion of Part 2 of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita by examining Margareta's wild and exciting change from…
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Bulgakov Chapters 14-18
Professor Kozlowski plays some plot-thread-round-up by briefly discussing the many characters (and chaotic situations) who arise in the last chapters of the…
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Bulgakov Chapters 10-13
Professor Kozlowski watches (and is watched by) Professor Woland's "Black Magic and Its Exposure" show at the Variety theatre (in Bulgakov's The Master and…
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Bulgakov Chapters 5-9
Professor Kozlowski continues his discussion of Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita by reviewing the devil's retinue, going over the Russian characters we've…
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Bulgakov Chapters 1-4
Professor Kozlowski embarks on his discussion of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, beginning with the devil's mysterious appearance in Russia…
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The Devil and Daniel Webster
Professor Kozlowski discusses Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster" - a love letter to Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker" which totally…
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Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Professor Kozlowski discusses two key chapters of Fyodor Dostoevsky's massive, ugly masterpiece, The Brothers Karamazov. We touch especially on Ivan's arc…
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Byron's Don Juan
Professor Kozlowski takes a stab at interpreting Byron's satirical labyrinth: Don Juan. Including: Hypocrisy! The obvious(?) conflict between classical…
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The Devil and Tom Walker
Professor Kozlowski discusses Washington Irving's delightful and cutting short story of social satire and satanic shenanigans: "The Devil and Tom Walker". This…
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Faust Scenes 20-28
Professor Kozlowski concludes his discussion of Goethe's Faust, Part One by discussing the fall of Gretchen/Margareta, and touching briefly on the conclusion…
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Faust Scenes 6-9
Professor Kozlowski discusses scenes 6-9 of Goethe's Faust, Part One, focusing primarily on Mephistopheles and the bargain/wager struck with Faust.
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Faust Scenes 1-5
Professor Kozlowski discusses the first five scenes of Goethe's Faust, Part One, including the strange and tangled construction of the play, Goethe's…
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Milton's Paradise Lost
Professor Kozlowski dissects the first Book of Milton's Paradise Lost, and constructs an argument that Milton is making a case for the royalist faction in the…
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Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
Professor Kozlowski discusses Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, the famous Elizabethan treatment of the Faust legend by the contemporary of Shakespeare…
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Dante's Inferno
Professor Kozlowski presents a crash course in the medieval worldview, in which he discusses the basic tenets of the Christian gospel, and discusses Dante's…
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19th Century German Emigration
Professor Kozlowski tackles listener Kit's question: What ideas did German immigrants bring to America in the 19th Century. Predictably, the answer is neither…
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Sartre and Phenomenological Reduction
At long last, Professor Kozlowski answers the question posed by Pavel Pavlovic of Belgrade: Is the Phenomenological Reduction of Jean-Paul Sartre…
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Intro to Logic 2021
Professor Kozlowski updates his Intro to Logic episode with some video game recommendations, an explicit discussion of the four historical periods and five…
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Spring 21 SCCC Syllabus Lecture
Another new semester means another syllabus lecture from Professor Kozlowski. This lecture features post-nervous-breakdown content like additional precautions…
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Introduction to Phenomenology
Professor Kozlowski provides a very rough-strokes overview of the history of 19th Century Phenomenology - specifically Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and…
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Philosophy of America - Post-Modernism
Professor Kozlowski throws caution to the wind, transgresses the boundaries of good taste, and proceeds to argue that the problems typical to 21st Century…
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The Philosophy of America - Conclusion
Professor Kozlowski bloviates his way to understanding the change between the American philosophy of the nation's founders and American philosophy today - the…
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Philosophy of America - Foundation
In this first listener-requested lecture, Professor Kozlowski discusses the philosophical and religious underpinnings of American identity, including the…
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Bonus Internet Listener Lecture
Professor Kozlowski snubs his students and addresses this supplemental lecture to his Internet listeners: we're going on a two-week hiatus, but if you want to…
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Sartre - The Humanism of Existentialism
Professor Kozlowski closes out the semester by discussing Jean-Paul Sartre's essay "The Humanism of Existentialism," discussing the landscape of 20th Century…