Roderick T. Long:
Video Lectures for “Ethics, Business, and Society”
and “Philosophy East and West”


Below are links to video lectures for two of my intro courses. They’re a work in progress (for one thing, they both peter off a bit toward the end, failing to cover all the material in their final modules) but might nevertheless be of interest. These are the only courses for which I’ve made video lectures (so far), so there’s a lot they don’t cover (not enough from the Greeks!). The first six-lecture sequences from each course overlap heavily (as you’ll guess from the titles) but are not identical. Contact me at longrob@auburn.edu if you have trouble accessing any of the videos, or if you notice any errors in need of correction. (There are some!)

If (for some reason) you want to combine both sets of lectures into one sequence, the following viewing order might be best:
Phil. 1043, Lecs. 1-6
Phil. 1060, Lecs. 1-6
Phil. 1080, Lec. 1
Phil. 1060, Lecs. 7-33
Phil. 1043, Lec. 19
Phil. 1060, Lecs. 34-51
Phil. 1043, Lecs. 7-12 and 20-21
Phil. 1060, Lecs. A-D
Phil. 1043, Lecs. 13-18
Phil. 1060, Lecs. E-Q
Phil. 1100, Descartes Lecs. 1-2
Phil. 1043, Lecs. 22-58




Phil. 1043: Ethics, Business, and Society Phil. 1060: Philosophy East and West

Module 1: Introduction to Philosophical Argumentation

Phil. 1043 Lec. 1: What Is Philosophy? – Part 1 (10 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 2: What Is Philosophy? – Part 2: Philosophy, Science, and Religion (20 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 3: What Is Philosophy? – Part 3: Argument (10 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 4: What Is Philosophy? – Part 4: The Crossword Puzzle Method (23 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 5: Plato’s Laches as an Exemplar of Philosophical Method (26 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 6: Relativism (27 mins.)


Module 2: The Ethics of Virtue

Phil. 1043 Lec. 7: The Ethics of Virtue (25 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 8: Plato’s Republic I: Socrates vs. Thrasymachus – Dawn of Justice (19 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 9: Plato’s Republic II: Glaucon’s Challenge and the Ring of Gyges (15 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 9a: Plato’s Protagoras: The Puzzle of Moral Expertise (27 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 9b: Plato’s Protagoras – Part 2: Cooperation and Political Wisdom (45 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 9c: Plato’s Protagoras – Part 3: Moral Knowledge and the Unity of Virtue (47 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 10: Plato’s Gorgias: Rhetoric, Power, and Justice (34 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 10a: Plato’s Gorgias – Part 2: Pleasure and Power (48 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 10b: Plato’s Gorgias – Part 3: On Beyond Zero! (20 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 11: Plato’s Euthyphro: Babies for Breakfast! (31 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 12: Plato’s Apology: Socrates on Trial (37 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 13: Aristotle’s Method (12 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 14: Aristotle: The Science of Happiness (25 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 15: Aristotle: Mistaken Conceptions of Happiness (39 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 16: Aristotle: Defining Happiness (21 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 17: Aristotle: Virtue and Vice (54 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec 18: Cicero’s On Duties (35 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 19: Confucians in the Garden of Virtue (34 mins.)


Module 3: Social Contract Theory

Phil. 1043 Lec. 20: Plato’s Crito and Social Contract Theory (52 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 21: Reconciling the Apology and Crito (42 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 22: Hobbes on the Human Condition (31 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 23: Hobbes: The Problem of Cooperation (34 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 24: Hobbes: The Mighty State (45 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 25: Prisoner’s Dilemmas, Part 1 (34 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 26: Prisoner’s Dilemmas, Part 2 (34 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 27: The Problem of Public Goods (42 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 28: Locke: The Law of Nature (76 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 29: Locke: Property Rights (44 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 30: Locke: Government and Revolution (45 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 31: Locke’s Legacy for America (63 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 32: Hume: The Rights and Wrongs of Social Contract Theory (43 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 33: Rousseau: Legitimating Our Chains (45 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 34: Anarchist Responses to Social Contract Theory, Part 1 (40 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 35: Anarchist Responses to Social Contract Theory, Part 2 (28 mins.)


Module 4: The Ethics of Utility versus the Ethics of Duty

Phil. 1043 Lec. 36: Egoists and Utilitarians (41 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 37: Rule-Utilitarianism vs. Act-Utilitarianism (48 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 38: Bentham and the Mills (27 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 39: Mill’s Hedonism: Objections and Replies, Part 1 (24 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 40: Mill’s Hedonism: Objections and Replies, Part 2 (31 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 41: Mill’s Utilitarianism (34 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 42: Mill’s Epistemological Politics (60 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 43: Kant: Morality and Imperatives (33 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 44: Kant: Willing Universally (44 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 45: Kant: Respect for Personhood (49 mins.)


Module 5: Economic Justice and Class Conflict

Phil. 1043 Lec. 46: Rawls: The Veil of Ignorance (32 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 47: Rawls: The Two Principles of Justice (57 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 48: Nozick: Distributive Justice (46 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 48a: Nozick: Distributive Justice, continued (12 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 49: Nozick: The Historical-Entitlement Theory (44 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 50: Nozick vs. the Anarchists, Part 1 (44 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 51: Nozick vs. the Anarchists, Part 2 (32 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 52: The Debate Over Intellectual Property (80 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 53: Marx and Class Theory (70 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 54: Proletarian Unfreedom: Individual or Collective? (22 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 55: [OMITTED]


Module 6: Corporations and Stakeholders

Phil. 1043 Lec. 56: Shareholders and Stakeholders (46 mins.)

Phil. 1043 Lec. 57: [OMITTED]

Phil. 1043 Lec. 58: Carson on Corporate Hierarchy (53 mins.)


(Sorry this last section is a bit spotty; watch this space for more videos on our final set of readings.)


Module 1: Introduction to Philosophical Reasoning

Phil. 1060 Lec. 1: What Is Philosophy? (15 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 2: Philosophy, Science, and Religion (20 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 3: Argument (13 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 4: The Crossword-Puzzle Method (30 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 5: Plato’s Laches as an Exemplar of Philosophical Method (32 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 6: Relativism (26 mins.)


Module 2: The Indian Tradition

Phil. 1060 Lec. 7: Introducing Indian Philosophy: Upanishadic Monism (37 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 8: Introducing Buddhism (23 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 9: Identity Over Time: Perspectives East and West (21 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 10: Major Schools of Indian Philosophy (22 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 11: Major Schools of Indian Philosophy, Part 2: Jainism and Charvaka (34 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 12: Major Schools of Indian Philosophy, Part 3: The Hindu Schools (62 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec 13: Pramanas, Part 1: Perception and Inference (43 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 14: Pramanas, Part 2: Testimony (25 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 15: God: For and Against (53 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 16: Hindu and Buddhist Scriptures, Part 1: Hindu Scriptures (49 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 17: Hindu and Buddhist Scriptures, Part 2: Buddhist Scriptures (35 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 18: Indian Atomism, Part 1: Do Atoms Exist? (33 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 19: Indian Atomism, Part 2: More About Atoms (44 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 20: Nothing Personal: Vasubandhu vs. Pudgalavada (32 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 21: From Buddhist Realism to Buddhist Phenomenalism (52 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 22: Running on Empty (42 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 23: Doing Without Universals (22 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 23b: Advaita vs. Samkhya on God, Part 1: Advaita as Apophatic Theism (19 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 23c: Advaita vs. Samkhya on God, Part 2: Dualism Without Deity (18 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 23d: Advaita vs. Samkhya on God, Part 3: Magnets, Mirrors, and Mooooooooo ...... (22 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 24: The Wacky Adventures of Vishvamitra (43 mins.)


Module 3: The Chinese Tradition

Phil. 1060 Lec. 25: China: The Hundred Schools (47 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 26: Mohists vs. Confucians (66 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 27: More on Mo! (52 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 28: Yang Zhu and Yangism (12 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 29: More on Taoism, Part 1: Laozi (27 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 30: More on Taoism, Part 2: Laozi, continued (29 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 31: More on Taoism, Part 3: Zhuangzi (39 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 32: More on Taoism, Part 4: Bao Jingyan and Guo Xiang (63 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 33: The School of Names (49 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 34: More on Confucianism: Mengzi and Xunzi (65 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 35: Han Feizi, Legalism, and the Qin Dynasty (99 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 36: Post-Qin Chinese Philosophy, Part 1: Before Buddhism (72 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 37a: Post-Qin Chinese Philosophy, Part 2: The Buddhist Influence (51 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 37b: Post-Qin Chinese Philosophy, Part 3: The Amazing Shen Kuo (14 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 37c: Post-Qin Chinese Philosophy, Part 4: Neo-Confucianism (54 mins.)


Module 4: The Greek Background to the Arabic Tradition

Phil. 1060 Lec. 38: Introduction to Greek Philosophy (43 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 39: Zeno of Elea, Part 1: Ear-biting Monist, or Nah? (26 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 40: Zeno of Elea, Part 2: Paradoxes of Plurality (55 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 41: Zeno of Elea, Part 3: Two Paradoxes of Motion: The Dichotomy and the Achilles (42 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 42: Zeno of Elea, Part 4: Two More Paradoxes of Motion: The Arrow and the Moving Rows (57 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 43: The Greek Atomists (73 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 44: Intimations of Monotheism in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Part 1: Xenophanes (59 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 45: Intimations of Monotheism in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Part 2: After Xenophanes (59 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 46: Socrates and Plato (74 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 47: Plato: Against Relativism and Skepticism (38 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 48: Plato: The Theory of Forms (58 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 49: Plato: Immortality of the Soul (41 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 50: Plato: Against the Forms? (39 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Lec. 51: Plato on God (37 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Slideless Lec. A: Aristotle on Form and Substance (27 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Slideless Lec. B: Aristotle on Space, Time, and Motion (27 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Slideless Lec. C: Aristotle on God (16 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Slideless Lec. D: Aristotle on the Soul (20 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Slideless Lec. E: Plotinus on the Self (21 mins.)


Module 5: The Arabic Tradition

Phil. 1060 Slideless Lec. F: Arabic Philosophy (33 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Slideless Lec. G: al-Kindi and al-Razi (15 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Slideless Lec. H: Saadya Gaon and the Four Roots of Knowledge (12 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Slideless Lec. I: Saadya Gaon on God (14 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Slideless Lec. J: Saadya Gaon on the Two Laws (9 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Slideless Lec. K: Saadya Gaon and the Mu‘tazilites on Free Will and Resurrection (25 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Slideless Lec. L: Ibn Sina on the Soul (19 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Slideless Lec. M: Ibn Sina on God (12 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Slideless Lec. N: Ibn Khaldun, the Laffer Curve, and the Cycle of Civilisation (27 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Slideless Lec. O: al-Ghazali vs. Ibn Rushd (28 mins)

Phil. 1060 Slideless Lec. P: ben Maimon on God and the Past (24 mins.)

Phil. 1060 Slideless Lec. Q: ben Gershom on Creation, Free Will, and Divine Foreknowledge (21 mins.)



Phil. 1080: Introduction to Philosophy of Religion

Here’s a bonus lecture for Phil. 1080.
Phil. 1080 Lec. 1: Three Obstacles to Philosophy of Religion (17 mins.)



Phil. 1100: Introduction to Philosophy

I also have a couple of Descartes lectures for Phil. 1100. I don’t generally have video lectures for that course but I was out sick and I didn’t want my students to have to tackle Descartes without lectorial guidance, so I threw these together. They’re not very complete: no discussion of true and immutable natures, or attributes vs. modes, or real vs. modal distinctions, or the pineal gland, or whether animals are conscious, or how anything other than God can count as a substance by Descartes’s criteria, or how almost everything in the supposedly ultramodern Descartes is drawn from some mediæval antecedent .... Sigh. I don’t even cover Descartes’s joke about common sense, or Hobbes’s crack about Descartes’s abilities. But these are better than nothing.

Phil. 1100 Lecture on Descartes – Part 1 (21 mins.)

Phil. 1100 Lecture on Descartes – Part 2 (18 mins.)