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Best book out there on many topics

Revisado: 01-08-24

Terrific detailed and well-supported explanation of how living creatures evolve agency - and much more

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Exhaustive review of studies of human behavior

Revisado: 05-24-21

Covers all kinds of interesting studies, but if you are trained in the field you’ve heard it all before

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Difficult but worth it

Revisado: 01-04-21

I learned so much that is important to my studies that I have half a mind to find where Kasser teaches and go study with him. But this is not a beginner’s course and I intend to listen to it 2-3 more times to let it sink in. Best listen of the year for sure!

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Hilarious in light of Trump

Revisado: 08-10-20

Amazing passage in later chapters, where the lecturer presents an extended review of Plato's analysis of oligarchy, tyranny, and the psychology of the tyrant. Presented in 2013, long before Trump, it is an uncanny and nearly perfect description of Trump's psychology and authoritarian tendencies, the populist appeal to the masses against "the elite", right down to the narcissism, the necessity of getting rid of both enemies and friends alike, the self-dealing and profiteering, the inability to hold friendship or empathy, it's all there, from Plato 2,500 years ago.

But even more remarkable is the lecturer's insistence that this sort of thing could never happen in America, because of the special qualities of American democracy, the separation of powers, the independence of the Supreme Court, and wait for it... that bulwark of democracy, the Electoral College!

Never thought I'd get such a belly laugh from a lecture on Plato's Republic!

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Fantastic

Revisado: 01-06-20

Excellent series, great lecturer, highly recommended, should be required listening for all citizens.

One of the very best Teaching Company courses.

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Really an awesome book

Revisado: 10-29-19

I've always argued since reading 1984 in the 60's in high school that you can't understand politics - and especially American politics today - unless you've read 1984. This book makes that so clear, and is such a fascinating and easy book to listen too - I highly recommend it!

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All you need to know about Plato

Revisado: 10-29-19

I don't share the professor's excitement about Plato, but wow do I love his enthusiasm! I have most of the Great Courses series and I gotta say, this man is a world-class lecturer and public speaker - a joy to listen to!

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Very useful!

Revisado: 10-29-19

Great book on this topic, highly recommended. However I do disagree with a couple of assumptions that so many atheists make - and I am a lifelong atheist. Firstly, obviously there is purpose to life, every living thing gets up in the morning filled with purpose. It's one thing to say our purpose was not given to us by a supernatural power, but it seems to me foolish to argue that there is no purpose. If there is no purpose, why does evolution exist? Why do living things try to survive and reproduce? Will you argue that the evident purpose of every living thing is not really a purpose?
Secondly, obviously science can tell us all we need to know about morality. Our purpose is to flourish as individuals and as a species - we know this from evolutionary theory. Therefore what is good is what helps us to flourish as a species, and what is bad is what hinders that flourishing. How do we know what helps us in this our purpose, and what does not? Science!

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Excellent resource on logic

Revisado: 08-12-19

Very informative, well-narrated, excellent commentary at the end, my only complaint is that the commentary was too short!

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Professor has poor delivery

Revisado: 07-22-19

The PROFESSOR places unnecessary EMPHASIS on KEY WORDS in EVERY sentence, and before very long it becomes quite TIRESOME to listen to...

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