Rick Roderick - Video Lectures
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2025 12:24 pm
Complete newby to philosophy and wondering how to go forward?
I think this is a wonderful way to enter into the field: https://rickroderick.org/
Courses include:
His lectures are very easy to digest and deal with basic questions of how to live and how to interpret our lives.
Each course is ~8x one hour long videos. They are pleasant to watch and deal with very real modern problems.
I encourage everyone to watch his lectures. If this forum picks up enough traction, I think it would be fun to watch through these lecture series together, perhaps via Cytube or Zoom.
I think this is a wonderful way to enter into the field: https://rickroderick.org/
Courses include:
- Philosophy and Human Values (Socrates, Epicureans, Stoics, Skeptics, Kant, Mill, Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, postmodernism)
- Nietzsche and the Postmodern Condition (self explanatory)
- The Self Under Siege (post 1900s postmodernists)
His lectures are very easy to digest and deal with basic questions of how to live and how to interpret our lives.
Each course is ~8x one hour long videos. They are pleasant to watch and deal with very real modern problems.
I encourage everyone to watch his lectures. If this forum picks up enough traction, I think it would be fun to watch through these lecture series together, perhaps via Cytube or Zoom.