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Ep. 298: Marsilio Ficino on Love (Part One)
On Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love (1475), with guest Peter Adamson. What is the role of love in the universe? Ficino tries to combine Plato'…
4 years, 2 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 297: Heidegger on the Human Condition (Part Three)
Concluding our close reading of Being and Time, on ch. 3, sec. 15 and 16 on the world as "ready to hand" or equipment.
If you're not hearing the full…
4 years, 2 months ago
Ep. 297: Heidegger on the Human Condition (Part Two)
We continue on Being and Time, now in ch. 2 on what "the world" is in our Being-in-the-World and so what it is for us to encounter objects and how th…
4 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 297: Heidegger on the Human Condition (Part One)
We continue on Being and Time (1927), now into ch. 1 (sec. 9) on Existenz and how our way of Being is different than that of the objects of science, …
4 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 296: Heidegger Questions Being (Part Two)
Continuing with our close reading of Being and Time, we talk about why time is the focus of Heidegger's analysis of the human condition, what are phe…
4 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 296: Heidegger's Questions Being (Part One)
Continuing from our overview in ep. 32, we do a close reading on selections from the introduction of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time to consider H…
4 years, 3 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 295: Kant on Preventing War (Part Three)
Concluding on Kant's "Perpetual Peace," plus Jurgen Habermas' "Kant's Idea of Perpetual Peace, with the Benefit of Two Hundred Years' Hindsight."
If …
4 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 295: Kant on Preventing War (Part Two)
Continuing on Immanuel Kant's essay "Perpetual Peace," we go further into how Kant's politics relate to his ethics and consider his actual policy pro…
4 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 295: Kant on Preventing War (Part One)
On Immanuel Kant's essay "Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch" (1795).
Do nations have the "right" to go to war? What principles ground just inte…
4 years, 4 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 294: Quine on Science vs. Epistemology (Part Three)
Concluding on W.V.O. Quine's "Epistemology Naturalized" (1969).
We talk more about the attempt to found epistemology on psychology.
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4 years, 4 months ago