Successfully removed.
Sorry, an error occurred.
|
uniofsydney uploaded a new video
(4 days ago)
International House is a University owned and operated residential college. It is home to an exceptional residential community of over 200 student ...
more
International House is a University owned and operated residential college. It is home to an exceptional residential community of over 200 student members from Australia and other countries around the world.
More than simply accommodation for undergraduate and postgraduate students, visiting scholars and academics, the House offers a unique experience in a mature living environment where people from many countries will develop a greater understanding and appreciation of different cultures and nationalities.
less
|
|
| |
|
|
uniofsydney uploaded a new video
(3 weeks ago)
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT - Professor Helen Irving, Faculty of Law
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the first theorist systematic...
more
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT - Professor Helen Irving, Faculty of Law
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the first theorist systematically to give voice to what we now call feminism. Her Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) was a radical account of the impact of limited education and subordination on womens lives, built on Enlightenment theories of reason and human progress. Wollstonecraft was not an armchair radical, but lived a life of extraordinary daring and independence, dying tragically young after giving birth to her daughter (the writer, Mary Shelley). In this talk, Helen Irving explores Wollstonecrafts life and her place in the English Enlightenment, and traces the enduring legacy of her ideas. Wollstonecraft, she argues, was right to insist not only that reason is vital to progress, but that progress rests on sexual equality. In this 250th anniversary year of her birth, she concludes, Wollstonecraft deserves to be better known and the Enlightenment better honoured.
less
|
|
| |
|
|
uniofsydney uploaded a new video
(3 weeks ago)
JOHN RAWLS ON SOCIAL JUSTICE - Professor Duncan Ivison, Professor of Political Philosophy and Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical In...
more
JOHN RAWLS ON SOCIAL JUSTICE - Professor Duncan Ivison, Professor of Political Philosophy and Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)
John Rawls (1921-2002) has been hailed as one of the most important liberal political philosophers of our times. He is best known for his hugely influential book, A Theory of Justice (1971), which defended a vision of social justice in which individual rights and social equality were seemingly reconciled ... something many consider to be impossible. For Rawls, justice was the first virtue of social and political institutions and should structure the way fundamental rights and opportunities (as well as burdens) are distributed in a society. His conception of justice as fairness attempted to reconcile the often competing ideals of liberty and equality by setting out principles of justice that individuals, conceived of as rational and free and equal, would be willing to accept. Technically innovative, often dizzyingly abstract and yet deeply informed by the history of philosophy, Rawlss work has shaped philosophical thinking about justicefor better or worseever since.
less
|
|
| |
|
|
uniofsydney uploaded a new video
(3 weeks ago)
KURT GÖDEL AND THE LIMITS OF MATHEMATICS - Professor Mark Colyvan, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of...
more
KURT GÖDEL AND THE LIMITS OF MATHEMATICS - Professor Mark Colyvan, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science
Kurt Gödel was one of the foremost mathematicians and logicians of the 20th century. He proved a number of extremely surprising results about the limitations of mathematics. Perhaps the most significant of these is his celebrated incompleteness theorem, which tells us that there are mathematical "blind spots": parts of mathematics that traditional methods of proof cannot access. These results are thought by many to have far-reaching consequences for computing and for our understanding of the nature of the human mind. Gödel's results have thus been the subject of a great deal of popular attention. Indeed, few other results in the history of mathematics have had such an impact outside of mathematics. For those of us who have never heard of Gödel, this lecture will give an accessible outline of his work and achievements.
less
|
|
| |
|
|
uniofsydney uploaded a new video
(3 weeks ago)
MAO ZEDONG AND HIS THOUGHT - Professor David Goodman, Professor of Chinese Politics, and Director, Institute of Social Sciences
Mao Zedong (1893-197...
more
MAO ZEDONG AND HIS THOUGHT - Professor David Goodman, Professor of Chinese Politics, and Director, Institute of Social Sciences
Mao Zedong (1893-1976) is best known as the founder of the Peoples Republic of China. He led the Chinese Communist Party from 1935 until his death, and brought it to political power in 1949. Mao is well known as a revolutionary, a guerrilla leader, a political and military strategist and icon for post-modern art. During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution that started in the mid-1960s he attacked the establishment of the new party state in China for succumbing to the sugar coated bullets of the bourgeoisie, though his motives have always been a matter of controversy inside as well as outside the Peoples Republic of China. Mao himself was always anxious to be seen as an ideologist, as well as an active revolutionary. The lecture will introduce the different and often competing strands in his ideology, which remain an important legacy for China today.
less
|
|
