EPISODE · Sep 5, 2025 · 6H 42M
#172a - The Odyssey: A Philosophical Analysis, Hubert Dreyfus on Artistic Worldmaking, the Attuning Gift of Greek Gods, Telemachus' Journey to Manhood, Autonomy and the Divine Inspiration
from History of Philosophy Audio Archive · host William Engels
Support me on Patreon - or leave a review for the show.Hubert "Bert" Dreyfus (1929-2017) was a professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley who specialized in phenomenology, 20th century Continental philosophy, artificial intelligence, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, and the aesthetics/literature of existentialism from Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard to Terrence Malick. He is probably most famous for his exposition of Heidegger's early masterpiece "Being and Time" (German: Sein und Zeit), and for his negative predictions about artificial intelligence. He taught multiple courses through MOOCs from roughly 2006-2012 about Greek philosophy, existentialism in film and literature, Heidegger's opus Being & Time, and the limits of AI. In this course he uses the Fitzgerald poetic translation of the Odyssey with his own amendments and R. Lattimores' meaning-literal translation.He was also extremely kind to me.Arete, techne, poesis, aletheia, gnosis...Books Mentioned:The Discovery of the Mind - Bruno SnellThe Greeks and the Irrational - E. R. Dodds-//-
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