Professor Kozlowski Lectures

It's time to talk about Christianity, and how it radically changed Western Culture's understanding of Love.

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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 philosophical study, and also (when forced) w…

Professor Kozlowski crosses the Rubicon to discuss the rise of the Roman Empire, its widespread (and politically-motivated?) embrace of stoicism, and how that informs Roman attitudes on hero-worship …

Professor Kozlowski ventures into Eastern Philosophy to discuss alternative attitudes toward love and friendship, as well as draw comparisons and contrasts to Western traditions like stoicism.  It's …

Professor Kozlowski wanders through the series of questions asked and answered by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics IX.  Along the way, he'll discuss the self-destructiveness of viciousness, the relati…

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 Aristotle's overall project in Ethics,…

Professor Kozlowski completes his encomium of Plato's Symposium by discussing the lives of Socrates and Alcibiades: how their love affair may have endangered the whole of Athenian civilization, and h…

Professor Kozlowski begins his encomium of the Symposium by discussing Greek cultural assumptions and how they relate and manifest in the first four speeches: Phaedrus' virtuous love, Pausanias' pass…

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.  Follow along with Professor Kozlowski as he…

Taking on another overly-ambitious project, Professor Kozlowski attempts to discuss Foucault's early steps in his History of Sexuality, discussing his challenge to the traditional understanding of ho…

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 a few things - in true Socratic fashio…

Professor Kozlowski introduces Internet listeners and official students alike to his newest course at Ramapo College: The Philosophy of Love and Friendship.  In this class we'll be discussing some of…

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 reconcile faith in a merciful, loving God with …

Professor Kozlowski gets a bit more introspective than usual, pairing his observations of the final chapters of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita with some discussion of his own work during…