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Philosophical Forays into Justice with Michael Sandel

Semantic Overload — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:35:43 +0000

Prof. Michael Sandel from Harvard University offered a 12-lecture course on “Justice: A Journey in Moral Reasoning” last year. It is a truly fascinating journey offered by Prof. Sandel for anyone who cares to view. All the lectures are available on YouTube, and I cannot help but peddle them to anyone and everyone around. Prof. Sandel makes a wonderful argument for studying philosophy (for a more vigourous defense of studying philosophy, I suggest Bertand Russell’s “The Value of Philosohpy”) as a means for understanding the answers that we already know, and he goes on to warn the audience that understanding political and social philosophy is, ironically, going to make you worse citizens, not better! You couldn’t ask for a more provocative set up to the lectures!

Here is the first video of the 12 [link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY

Rajani ka Ishtyle

Semantic Overload — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:17:46 +0000

Rajani in Castrol Power 1 Commercial

Ek Chidiya

Semantic Overload — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 06:00:06 +0000

For old times sake… Something I grew up watching during the doordarshan days.
Ek Chidiya on YouTube

Ahmadinejad on CBS

Semantic Overload — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:37:51 +0000

Watch it here.

Zeitgeist

Semantic Overload — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:59:51 +0000

Zeitgeist — The movie although a conspiracy theory, and may not all true, does have some sense of reality in it. I am the first admit that there are quite a few ‘facts’ in the movie that are, well, just plain wrong. For instance, ‘Krishna’ being a virgin birth being one of them. However, be sure not to throw the baby out with the bath water.

The statement on the website says:

Zeitgeist was created as a non-profit filmiac expression to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the population at large think they are. The information in Zeitgeist was established over a year long period of research and the current Source page on this site lists the basic sources used / referenced. Soon, an Interactive Transcript will be online with detailed footnotes and links so exact sources and further research can be relayed.

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Here’s the movie for your viewing. Note that the movie is 2 hours long, so make sure you have enough time to watch it. But I guarantee that you will have strong opinions about it one way or the other.
Don’t forget to check out the Clarifications (which dented my confidence in the authenticity of the ‘facts’ in the movie), and the Sources sections.

Without further ado, here’s the movie :)

Ad by Telecom Italia

Semantic Overload — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:33:00 +0000

This is an award winning ad by Telecom Italia. Does its job well, captures your attention and leaves an imprint.
Check it out at:

http://www.epica-awards.com/assets/epica/2004/winners/film/flv/11071.htm

P.S.: Switch your speakers on