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Johnathan Bi

Insights from the Great Books

Lectures & Interviews on the Great Books www.johnathanbi.com

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83 episodes

  1. AI Will Destroy the Religion of Work | NYU's Harvey Lederman 1:34:47
  2. Hostile Al Will Only Become More Dangerous | Helena CEO Henry Elkus 1:01:18
  3. Why We Need to Respect AI’s Rights | NYU Philosopher Harvey Lederman 1:54:26
  4. Capitalism vs Aristocracy: Who Actually Had it Better? Tocqueville Seminar ft. Alpha School 1:08:19
  5. Why Odysseus Cries When Listening to the Trojan War Stories | Gregory Nagy 52:11
  6. How to Choose a Good Wife (According to Odysseus) 15:25
  7. Odysseus and the Art of Lying | Homer's Odyssey Explained 29:35
  8. What Happens to Odysseus After the Odyssey? Telegony, Inferno, Ulysses, Republic Compared 58:37
  9. Homer Didn't Write The Odyssey, This is Who Did | Harvard’s Gregory Nagy 1:08:07
  10. America's War on Christianity | Tocqueville on Religion 1:30:10
  11. Democracy with American Characteristics | Tocqueville on America's Industrial Aristocracy 1:40:01
  12. The American Love of Acquisition & Commerce | UT Philosopher Thomas Pangle 1:48:54
  13. The 4 Best Books to Prepare for AI (of the Hundreds I’ve Read) 20:26
  14. The Path to God is Through Sex | Rice Professor Jeff Kripal 1:25:22
  15. The High Integrity Way Great Men Chase Fame | UT Philosopher Thomas Pangle on the American Founding 1:05:56
  16. Comparing the World Religions with Rice's Jeff Kripal 2:35:18
  17. Inside the CIA’s Psychic Spy Program | Stargate 37:35
  18. Only Treachery Can Defend Freedom | Machiavelli's Domestic Policy Explained 2:05:13
  19. Nietzsche Was NOT an Atheist. He Was a Mystic 3:13:11
  20. The Chinese Billionaire Paying People to Have Kids | James Liang on Demography 1:33:54
  21. The Overwhelming Evidence for Miracles Suppressed By Authorities | Princeton's Dale Allison 1:31:32
  22. The Struggle for Recognition | Axel Honneth 2:01:19
  23. The Case for Imperialism | Machiavelli's Foreign Policy Explained 50:29
  24. Christology, Apocalypse, Ressurection | Dale Allison on the New Testament 1:36:39
  25. The Incredible Results of AI Learning | A New Philosophy of Education 1:19:32
  26. How a $17B Investor Beat Wall Street By Reading Shakespeare | Jim O'Shaughnessy 1:39:04
  27. Answering Tough Questions on Machiavelli’s Ethics | Q&A 35:24
  28. Why Good People Make Terrible Leaders | Machiavelli's Ethics Explained 1:11:34
  29. Capital is Cheap, This is The Last Scarce Resource | USV’s Albert Wenger 1:46:12
  30. Reject Globalism, Embrace Patriotism | Maurizio Viroli 46:15
  31. Your Face Shapes Your Destiny | Shelley's Frankenstein Explained 18:48
  32. A Masterclass on Machiavelli’s Unorthodox Christianity | Maurizio Viroli 1:32:16
  33. Rebel Oxford Philosopher Declares War on Universities | Michael Gibson 1:21:54
  34. The Next Best Alternative to Libertarianism | Palantir Cofounder Joe Lonsdale’s Political Philosophy 59:56
  35. How This Wittgenstein Scholar Built a $16 Billion Startup | Marcus Ryu, Oxford 2:19:39
  36. He Studied the Great Books and Built a $2 Billion Startup | Francis Pedraza 2:03:37
  37. How Following His Curiosity Made Him a Fortune | Colin Moran, Oxford Historian 1:41:28
  38. The One Thing You Must Never Outsource to AI | Brendan McCord 2:08:02
  39. Embrace the Erotic | Plato's Symposium Explained 1:36:34
  40. The Problem with Modern Dating | David O’Connor on Nietzsche, Plato, Christ 2:23:15
  41. Harvard Professor’s Masterclass on Machiavelli | Harvey Mansfield 1:56:50
  42. Debate: Can AI Write a Great Book? 44:11
  43. Plato’s Guide to Virtue | Cornell’s Rachana Kamtekar 1:37:34
  44. A Systematic Critique of Stoic Philosophy | Cicero's Definibus 1:21:24
  45. Why You Self-Sabotage | Rachana Kamtekar on Plato’s Moral Psychology 1:06:37
  46. Introduction to Ancient Skepticism | Tad Brennan on Sextus Empiricus 1:40:42
  47. How Stoics Reconcile Determinism & Free Will | Cornell's Tad Brennan 56:55
  48. The Signs that AI is Conscious | Imperial's Murray Shanahan 1:28:34
  49. AI's Killer-App Isn't Chatbots, It's Social | Linkedin Founder Reid Hoffman 1:22:21
  50. Why Stoicism Doesn’t Work Without God | Tad Brennan on Stoic Ethics 52:09