Tag: philosophy
Interview 382 – Brad Morrison
Today we’re joined by Brad Morrison, a New Yorker who has been on the ground attending the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations and observing what is happening there. We discuss the broader judicial concepts and philosophy underlying citizen protest movements, including the common law concept of in loco parentis.
Episode 193 – Philosophy of Freedom: The Declaration of Independence
In June of 1776, Thomas Jefferson drafted one of the most important political documents in the history of the world. The Declaration of Independence was a breathtakingly revolutionary document for its time, but what does it tell us about our situation today? If we are faced by a train of abuses and usurpations, will we respond in kind? Would we sign the declaration ourselves?
Interview 335 – Webster Tarpley
Writer, researcher, historian and analyst Webster Tarpley of Tarpley.net joins us to discuss his work Against Oligarchy and how the Aristotelian epistemology has been used as a justification for oligarchical control of society for thousands of years, and how Plato’s Republic should be held as an ideal.
Episode 186 – Philosophy of Freedom: The State of Nature
Each society tells itself a story about where it came from. These foundation myths are built on our assumptions about the world and about human nature itself, and it often explains why we live in the political system that we do. Today on The Corbett Report we examine various foundation myths throughout history, from ancient Greece to modern America, from the Enlightenment to the post-Enlightenment.
Episode 183 – Five Lectures That Will Blow Your Mind
From history to engineering, philosophy to literature, The Corbett Report presents excerpts from five lectures that will make you think (or re-think) about what you know (and what you don’t know).
Interview 133 – Richard Grove and James Evan Pilato
The Corbett Report, PeaceRevolution.org and MediaMonarchy.com team up to bring you Signal to Noise: A three-way conversation on the media and the message. In this sweeping discussion, we break down the media, its use as a tool for misdirection by the oligarchical elite, and how we can work together to create and support a genuine […]
Interview 130 – Jerome Ravetz
Jerome Ravetz, Associate Fellow of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at the University of Oxford, joins James Corbett of The Corbett Report to discuss climategate and what it tells us about climate science and the philosophy of science in general. From post-normal science to the Extended Peer Community, we discuss how new concepts […]
Episode 053 – What Are We To Do With Our Lives?
Eugenics. Big government. The erosion of personal liberties. It’s easy to say what we oppose, but what can we offer as a positive solution to these problems? In this episode we examine the fundamental question of our time.
Interview 041 – Walter Block
The Corbett Report talks to economics professor Walter Block about the philosophy of libertarianism, including the non-aggression axiom and the homesteading theory of property rights. We discuss the Ron Paul revolution and the political will to implement libertarian ideals.
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