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The Rebirth of Classicism — David Butterfield on the History of the Canon (4/4)
Listen to Professor David Butterfield in the final lecture of a four part series on the development of the canon. In this part, discover and learn about how the rise of mass literacy and the process of Platonic rediscovery.
This lecture was recorded on the 12th of March 2024.
Professor David Butterfield was a Fellow of Classics at Queens' College, Cambridge with twenty-one years of experience. His essays have appeared in The Spectator and many other publications.
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The Advent of Universities - David Butterfield on the History of the Canon (3/4)
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Listen to Professor David Butterfield in the third lecture of a four part series on the development of the canon. In this part, discover and learn about how the ancient library develops into the medieval university through a process of war and conquest. This lecture was recorded on the 5th of March 2024. Professor David Butterfield was a Fellow of Classics at Queens' College, Cambridge with twe...
The Birth of Libraries - David Butterfield on the History of the Canon (2/4)
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Listen to Professor David Butterfield in the second lecture of a four part series on the development of the canon. In this part, discover and learn about what it means for something to be considered 'literature' - does it need to be written? Did you know that state support for culture and the arts can be tracked to Ancient Athens? How were the definitive version of a historical myth determined?...
The Dawn of Literature - David Butterfield on the History of the Canon (1/4)
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Listen to Professor David Butterfield in the first lecture of a four part series on the development of the canon. In this part, discover and learn about the origins of writing, speech, and syntax in ancient Mesopotamian civilisation. This lecture was recorded on the 20th of February 2024. Professor David Butterfield was a Fellow of Classics at Queens' College, Cambridge with twenty-one years of...
How The Nazis Conquered German Universities | Sir Niall Ferguson: The Treason of the Intellectuals
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Listen to Sir Niall Ferguson about how academia can be perverted so that it incubates and legitimises extremist political groups. Discussing academia from the decades preceding WWII, debating Marxists during the Cold War, and the recent developments in the United States. - In conversation with Sir Noel Malcom. Sir Niall Ferguson is a British-American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior F...
Shaun Maguire on Refounding Democracy: Free Speech and Information Warfare
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In Conversation with Patrick Nash, Founding Director of the Pharos Foundation. Held in the Harris Lecture Theatre, Oriel College on 3rd May 2024. Please visit our website for further lectures and our full programme: pharos.foundation/ Please obtain the relevant permissions before re-uploading any Pharos Lectures video.
Peter Berkowitz on Independence and the State: The Idea of America at 250
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In Conversation with John Gray. Held in the TS Eliot Theatre at Merton College, Oxford on 8th February 2024. Please obtain the relevant permissions before re-uploading any Pharos Lectures video.
Tony Sewell on The End of 'Race': Agency and Self-Affirmation
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In Conversation with Deroy Murdock. Held at The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on 21st February 2024. Please obtain the relevant permissions before re-uploading any Pharos Lectures video.
Adrian Goldsworthy on Superpower Conflict between Ancient Rome and Persia (The Eagle and The Lion)
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A Book Launch and Conversation with Simon Elliott. Held in the Old Library of All Souls College, Oxford on 16th November 2023. Please obtain the relevant permissions before re-uploading any Pharos Lectures video.
John Gray on What is Living and What is Dead in Liberalism?
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In Conversation with Nigel Biggar. Held at The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on 8th November 2023. Please obtain the relevant permissions before re-uploading any Pharos Lectures video.
Richard Dawkins on Science, the Poetry of Reality, Jewel in Humanity’s Crown
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Introduced by Professor Dame Angela McLean. Held at The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on 12th June 2023. Please obtain the relevant permissions before re-uploading any Pharos Lectures video.
Jonathan Sumption on The New Roundheads: Politics and the Misuse of History
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In Conversation with John Simpson. Held at The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on 27th February 2023. Please obtain the relevant permissions before re-uploading any Pharos Lectures video.

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  • @ericm3089
    @ericm3089 20 годин тому

    That was a superb lecture.

  • @psmorgan2542
    @psmorgan2542 22 години тому

    Marxists are still here. They only used to embrace debate because they were culturally the underdog.

  • @shawnaweesner3759
    @shawnaweesner3759 День тому

    Observe those Ivy League universities in the U.S. where the leaders of these esteemed institutions refused to condemn the professors and students that rioted in support of the murder of all Jews. Intellectuals at their worst!

  • @indian5189
    @indian5189 2 дні тому

    It was waste of time. Actual title of talk has nothing to do with content of speech.

  • @wandabutler2593
    @wandabutler2593 2 дні тому

    Natsoc right about everything earth is flst wrong god tesla and marconi earth is flat dual mind intellectuals yeah rationalist heretics more evil anti catholics

  • @johnwilson5637
    @johnwilson5637 2 дні тому

    Same thing has happened in current UK. Academia has been infiltrated by Cultural Marxist activists since Blair was Prime Minister. Now look at the state of our education establishments.

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    @brucevilla 2 дні тому

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  • @goodgrief888
    @goodgrief888 4 дні тому

    This is interesting. But was it filmed in a crowded pub? Whats with the loud din of voices in the background? Very distracting

  • @careyrowland
    @careyrowland 4 дні тому

    this is, indeed, an eye-opening historical analysis. But I find myself wondering, how many academics joined the rabble in the assaulat against our US Capitol on January 6, 2021?

  • @michaelbrown865
    @michaelbrown865 4 дні тому

    Why not let the left have their own place, an island, where they can hate each other and leave the rest of us sane people alone ?

  • @helenezonana
    @helenezonana 4 дні тому

    “Of 800 professors, 200 were Jewish and were expelled from academia of which 20 were Nobel Prize Laureate. The biggest Brian drain in history of Academia.” Let’s not repeat history. Let’s learn from the mistakes of the past.

  • @derberggraf5297
    @derberggraf5297 4 дні тому

    „Niall Ferguson about how academia can be perverted so that it incubates and legitimises extremist political groups“ Is he talking about himself and his despicable pro Trump propagand

    • @-dash
      @-dash 10 годин тому

      Lol I like how you equate pro-Trump sentiment with political extremism. How extreme can it be when he won the popular vote?

  • @EmperorsNewWardrobe
    @EmperorsNewWardrobe 4 дні тому

    51:40 the penny drop indeed…

  • @EmperorsNewWardrobe
    @EmperorsNewWardrobe 4 дні тому

    49:10 “I think I’ve become bilingual in Woke” In other words, 1984’s doublespeak

  • @EmperorsNewWardrobe
    @EmperorsNewWardrobe 4 дні тому

    44:11 on the contrary, amid all the shrill speakers and short-attention spans, Joe Rogan’s long-form podcast has attracted a huge following and led the way to a lengthy discussion with the now-new president

  • @dbodde
    @dbodde 5 днів тому

    Are you Herbert's grandson?

  • @marinabotes
    @marinabotes 5 днів тому

    From South Africa - thank you for sharing this lecture

  • @julilab
    @julilab 6 днів тому

    It's sad to see that Ferguson has turned from a respected historian to an activist and Trump/Musk supporter. He compares the German Nazi academics (who all had a chance to read Hitler's book, YT will delete my comment here if I mention the title) to the delusional Hamas supporters of the US student unions. I'm German. Ferguson's comparison serves his activism, but is frighteningly superficial. German academics abetted the Nazi genocide. The US students see Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide, they don't pander to genocide. The Nazi GER and Israel/Gaza situations are completely different. A comparison is out of the question IMHO. (I am neither a student nor a Hamas supporter). I hope Ferguson will eventually drop his activism and return to his original field of knowledge.

    • @yerbudspud
      @yerbudspud 6 днів тому

      The issues coming from western universities today didn't start with the whole gaza protest situation. It started before trump even ran for president but came to a head during his first campaign. It might serve an agenda but it isn't wrong or as shallow an issue as you might think. Especially since most of the issues stem from neo marxism, race instead of class struggle, which has some roots in Germany. That school of constantly picking out flaws in a society while never offering solutions other than revolution gives way to ideologies like fascism and communism.

  • @darrynreid4500
    @darrynreid4500 7 днів тому

    What I observe in this regard, after a lifetime in the sciences, is a totalitarian wave consisting of people who do not want to grow up and take responsibility for themselves, with an infantile need for an imaginary group essence, to give them a sense of identity since they don't really have one of their own. They seem to expect to be catered to and coddled, cherished and adored, and to have their big feelings managed for them, since they neither understand nor can control themselves.

  • @mkkrupp2462
    @mkkrupp2462 7 днів тому

    Ferguson = Trump supporter. Ditto his wife. Yeh, see how that goes…..!

  • @John-rx7oe
    @John-rx7oe 7 днів тому

    “Trust the Experts”

  • @ThePclayton
    @ThePclayton 8 днів тому

    All as a result of the Darwinism revolution

  • @pokies100
    @pokies100 8 днів тому

    Floyd is referenced but not the police officer’s name. Two people on the ground. One personified into a group of skin colour and the other personified into the uniform. The common factor was illegal pharmaceuticals. That contention removed the breath of one and employed the knee of the other. Covid has shown how big phama pit people against people. And we see Germany in the 1930 also experimenting with these chemicals. 1940’s created a knee on the neck in a world war. Time to reflect on how history rhymes.

  • @draganjagodic4056
    @draganjagodic4056 8 днів тому

    Nazis are fortunately defeated. This evil is (more or less) no more (with exception of German AfD party). Let us talk now, how Marxists and crypto-Communists conquered American and European universities, finances, businesses and media. Too many supporters of vladolf putler among professors, bankers, business men and journalists.

  • @cindymaceda2999
    @cindymaceda2999 8 днів тому

    I very much respect Sir Niall, having reading his books & hearing him speak at London School of Economics. He deserves the title. Seeing him speak now at Oxford about odd things happening in America’s 3 top unis is rather worrying. I wish him best wishes in the success of the uni he is founding.

    • @cindymaceda2999
      @cindymaceda2999 8 днів тому

      Incidentally, my husband is a proud Stanford alumnus and we have visited The Farm a few times since and donate to their Breast Cancer Research. So it is rather disappointing that Sir Niall’s Cardinal talk series were prevented from happening. 😢

  • @jamestregler1584
    @jamestregler1584 8 днів тому

    Until the late 1950's most all chemical engineering books were in German.

  • @mavisemberson8737
    @mavisemberson8737 8 днів тому

    Almost like the days of Senator McCarthy when anything spoken and written in public media had to be censored for Communist sympathies, beforehand. Known as Reds under the Bed. policy People lost their jobs for being suspected.

    • @cindymaceda2999
      @cindymaceda2999 8 днів тому

      Now, one cannot even make a joke about the devolution of American politics at a party in case another guest debates you on Trump and MAGA. It would embarrass your host and possibly cause a fight.

  • @dennissmith9021
    @dennissmith9021 9 днів тому

    This guy is a propogandist. It is important for the Right to always be the victim. That way they can distract from the fact that few real people just don't believe in them.

  • @peredavi
    @peredavi 9 днів тому

    The US is very lucky to have people like Niall Ferguson immigrate and become citizens.

    • @cindymaceda2999
      @cindymaceda2999 8 днів тому

      He is waking up American academics and warning of the loss of its precise purpose. 😢

  • @tomking5855
    @tomking5855 9 днів тому

    Western countries are now reaping the harvest of what has been sown in the, once revered, halls of their centres of learning. How very astute of Niall to present the facts of how the universities are overwhelmingly over represented by woke liberal progressive zealots!

  • @sjenner76
    @sjenner76 9 днів тому

    “There lies madness.” Oh terrific! let’s go there!

  • @RobinHood-hk5dk
    @RobinHood-hk5dk 9 днів тому

    Marxism and Facism are the true face of Athiesm. Morality is subjective. Ethics are the result of extreme rationalism by collective agreement, not individual reasoning. It is the Survival of the fittest. Man is no more than a descendant of Animals. Academics are the quickest to be fooled by this deception with their DEI appointments.

  • @nterry894100
    @nterry894100 9 днів тому

    “Liberal” in the US now means illiberal in normal parlance. I am a liberal and so is Ferguson in the sense that we believe in free speech and a market place of ideas. It is sad to see the perversion of the genuine intellectual endeavour and its replacement with dogma.

  • @nterry894100
    @nterry894100 9 днів тому

    He has really hit a raw nerve here, judging from the angry leftist outpourings among the comments here.

  • @flashtrash7830
    @flashtrash7830 9 днів тому

    Niall might have been blowing the dust off his book shelves to re-read Michael Burleigh's books. Which is no bad thing as being a good communicator and possibly applying his own intellect to the Profess-ocracy of pre WW2 Germany needs a wider audience. Unfortunately the actual talk here is not really about academia, the professions and the Nazis and, rather more about "cancellation culture." Worthy but a topic already bashed around in the press. On that note I surprised they did not see the role of media outlets selling advertising clicks that gives the oxygen to this. Will no one ever write a first class thesis on the role of the Fourth Estate, which democracy demands is kept in place, quite right, despite all the wrongs.

  • @bhoffma3
    @bhoffma3 10 днів тому

    Is this purely a function of a liberal takeover or a decline of the republican party into a ultrareligious mullah party. It takes two to tango. Both parties have been highjacked by extremists

  • @DK-jt6be
    @DK-jt6be 10 днів тому

    What a wonderfull video - well spoken mr. Ferguson!

  • @PennySmart
    @PennySmart 10 днів тому

    28:32 "why multiculturalism works" 😂😂😂

  • @PennySmart
    @PennySmart 10 днів тому

    14:55 Especially when you add to running being under the influence of various drugs and resisting arrest, among other things...

  • @Michaelfrikkie
    @Michaelfrikkie 10 днів тому

    I have to thank this presentation and discussion for helping me to name some of my recent experiences: "sanctified indifference"... 🤔😉

  • @frednikgohar
    @frednikgohar 10 днів тому

    I BEG OF YOU ALL: the philosopher, historians and academic intellegencia communities: PLEASE REFRAIN from using the word "confused" when referencing the DELIBERATE and WILLFUL moral positions taken by University Admins, Faculty, and Students. While it is true a great many do not posses even the most basic facts on this conflict, their position nevertheless is a MORAL one, not a historical or otherwise factual one, and therefore you demean THEM, their positions they've willfully decided to take, and the meaning of the word itself. These people may be uninformed but they are NOT CONFUSED!!!

  • @Chowringhee
    @Chowringhee 11 днів тому

    The sensational title of this lecture was Ferg’s ‘hook’ to get you to endure his witless whingeings about being so soundly rejected by the Ivy Leaguers, who don’t give a damn about any ‘woke’ causes. They just want the big money and to get rid of obnoxious egotists who are mere annoyances. He’s perpetually bitter about all the ‘unfair’ treatment he’s suffered, and sour over the fact that he had to decamp to the wastes of Texas to found his dream lyceum. (Shades of Trump U…?) The chief difference between the German universities of the Nazi era and the US ones of today is the mass corporatization of them by private and corporate funding. So, instead of aiming his watery venom at the right people, he assigns the problem to a few transient officials and some rebel professors. Of course, the corporates are unassailable, even by a giant gnat such as Ferg. The smothering gobbledygook from Noel Malcolm almost seems a balm in comparison. He certainly tames the firebrand with his muffled, predictably deadening Don-Talk, and successfully concludes the affair with a whimper.

  • @seancoleman5021
    @seancoleman5021 11 днів тому

    Opening part full of propaganda.

  • @ytb40
    @ytb40 11 днів тому

    He wanted to talk about "How The Nazis Conquered German Universities" It's 12:20 and he switches to the Palestineans... I then stopped the video and left. If you want to do propaganda in the Levante conflict, Sir Ferguson, please say it in advance. My time is to valuable fro your indoctrinations.

  • @FundedinaWeek
    @FundedinaWeek 11 днів тому

    If you want to hear a true intellectual, not associated with the "The Crown", try Chris Hedges. Noam Chomsky. ...Or Mearsheimer. This one smells.

    • @-dash
      @-dash 10 годин тому

      Noam Chomsky 🤮

  • @FundedinaWeek
    @FundedinaWeek 11 днів тому

    The academic achievements are, indeed, not a guarantee of either a humain, responsible moral stance or the responsible humain politics. ... As clearly demonstrated in the speaker, Ferguson's gaslightning, by associating a healthy, natural instinct of a student organisations protesting Israeli 🇮🇱 apartheid state and ongoing genocide, with his piers, the career academics dependent on the imperial state for their few pieces of silver (salaries, etc...) and their rented social standing. Students protesting injustices while oppressive, state (or by rich, zionist donors) professors, calling upon "help" by state-police and state courts... And Ferguson, gaslightning, carefully avoiding talking about the decades old Israeli apartheid and now genocide. Whatta picture.

  • @JanisFroehlig
    @JanisFroehlig 11 днів тому

    Self-censorship is self governance. Neither of these guys' wives haven't bothered telling them what, exactly, that is. We are all in the locker room, now.