How Creativity Helps Cure Depression

Smartphones and Social Media - A Mass Surveillance Hellscape

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The Psychology of Depression - How to Damage Your Life

Access 40+ membership videos (more added each month) ► http://academyofideas.com/members/ **Join via Paypal or Credit Card** === Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/academyofideas Bitcoin ► 1P6ntukFENP1nvEf4bJNj3tsDEuiSyUFW6 Paypal ► https://www.paypal.me/academyofideas === In this video we explore some of the psychological factors and life patterns which predispose us to depression. === Get the transcript (and art-work) ► https://academyofideas.com/2018/10/psychology-of-depression/ Sign up for our newsletter ► http://academyofideas.com/newsletter/ === Subscribe to us on Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Isugpnbhgqtj3jilbpj3tu4m7uq?t=Academy_of_Ideas Subscribe to us on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/academy-of-ideas/id1364706343 ==== Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

How to Stop Being a Slave to the Opinions of Other People

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Introduction to Brainwashing

In this lecture we investigate the nature of propaganda. We examine what propaganda is, the difference between education and propaganda, the history of propaganda, the nature of political propaganda, and the role propaganda plays in modern democracies. =================================================== Support us on Patreon: http://patreon.com/academyofideas Recommended Readings: Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes by Jacques Ellul - http://amzn.to/1sAJlpd (affiliate link) Propaganda by Edward Bernays - http://amzn.to/1VjV7Ql (affiliate link) Visit http://www.academyofideas.com for more videos, video transcripts and more! =================================================== --- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Basics of Ethics

Recommended Readings: An Introduction to Ethics by John Deigh - http://amzn.to/2496GKz (affiliate link) Human Happiness and Morality: A Brief Introduction to Ethics by Robert Almeder - http://amzn.to/1UfjoEP (affiliate link) Good and Evil by Richard Taylor - http://amzn.to/24972ka (affiliate link) =================================================== In this lecture we look at the subject matter of ethics, distinguish between moral subjectivism and moral realism, discuss Hume's law, and look at the difference between teleological and deontological theories of ethics. =================================================== Support us on Patreon: http://patreon.com/academyofideas Visit http://www.academyofideas.com for more videos, video transcripts and more! Get the transcript here: http://academyofideas.com/2013/08/introduction-to-ethics/ =================================================== --- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]