William James | “The Moral Equivalent of War” | Philosophers Explained | Stephen Hicks

Philosophers, Explained covers major philosophers and texts, especially the great classics. In each episode, Professor Hicks discusses an important work, doing a close reading that lasts 40 minutes to an hour.

In this episode, Dr. Hicks discusses James' argument that militarists offer a vitality and direction to a nation and the pacifists need to find an equivalent mission.

Timestamps:

00:57 The text
06:36 "History is a bath of blood."
08:36 We inherit the war-like type
11:51 Pacifism
13:38 The higher aspect of the militaristic sentiment
17:14 "War is an absolute good."
19:58 Nations are never stationary
22:43 "War is an ordeal instituted by God."
24:39 Pacifists must take these arguments seriously
25:53 Pacifists need a moral equivalent of war
29:14 The service to the collectivity
33:13 Conscription of youth
36:59 We should be owned

Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.

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I love this brealdown thank you so much

[StephenHicksPhilosopher]

The 30 in the first series include:
1. Immanuel Kant
2. Plato
3. Galileo Galilei
4. Ayn Rand
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6. René Descartes
7. Jean-Paul Sartre
8. Socrates
9. Martin Heidegger
10. Thomas Aquinas
11. Arachne and Athena
12. Aristotle
13. Albert Camus
14. Friedrich Nietzsche
15. John Dewey
16. Sigmund Freud
17. G.W.F. Hegel
18. William James
19. Søren Kierkegaard
20. John Locke
21. Karl Marx
22. John Stuart Mill
23. Thales
24. Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile
25. William Paley
26. C.S. Lewis
27. David Hume
28. John Maynard Keynes
29. Thomas Kuhn
30. George Orwell

[jackgardner]

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I never appreciated what a simple babbling fool James was. Yet, it is evident that the views he expresses here have been influential. Why? I wonder how I might have reacted to his thinking before I gained significant experience in reading critically and thinking for myself; which so few seen to practice. Perhaps also because I have been interested in historical developments; which so few seem to be.

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so good . very informative

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The camp have become Peace Corps.






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William James was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and taught Psychology at Harvard apparently without understanding either subject. We are going to have men become dishwashers, wash clothes, work in mines and this is going to bring out the soldiers attributes courage, loyalty, comradeship, and valor.... not to mention being owned by the This is written by a feeble and depressed male trying to make all men as incompetent as he is... at last equality! Like he battle against nature, HUMAN NATURE that is. I also don't think he really understood what drove the characters in the Iliad, .. self assurance, honor and competency in the face of ones fate. Look around your next shopping trip and tell me these qualities are still valued.