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Ep. 290: Susanne Langer on Our Symbol-Making Nature (Part One)
On Philosophy in a New Key (1942), ch. 1-5, plus as background most of us looked at Ernst Cassirer's An Essay on Man (1944), ch. 1-5. What does it me…
4 years, 6 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 289: Aesthetic Sense Theory: Hume (Part Two)
We get into more detail on David Hume's "The Standard of Taste" (1760). How does he resolve the paradox that it seems both that beauty is in the eye …
4 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 289: Aesthetic Sense Theory: Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume (Part One)
How do we know what opinions about beauty are correct? We read The Moralists: A Philosophical Rhapsody (1709) by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, aka the third…
4 years, 7 months ago
PEL Presents Philosophy vs. Improv #28: Enhanced Interrogation w/ Adal Rifai
Today's episode is about questioning: how one might question, what sets the parameters for a proper answer, and how to give those answers in an infor…
4 years, 7 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 288: Scruton on Ethical Art (Part Two)
Concluding on Beauty (2009). Why would we be attracted to beauty if on Scruton's account it takes so much work? We consider the form/function distinc…
4 years, 7 months ago
Ep. 288: Scruton on Ethical Art (Part One)
On Roger Scruton's Beauty (2009), ch. 5-9. Scruton argues against aesthetic relativism on moral grounds: That the "flight from beauty" in modern art …
4 years, 7 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 287: Roger Scruton on Beauty (Part Two)
Continuing on Beauty (2009), ch. 1-4. Does apprehending beauty really have to involve reason, or can it be merely sensory?
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4 years, 7 months ago
Ep. 287: Roger Scruton on Beauty (Part One)
On Beauty (2009), ch. 1-4. What truths about beauty does any theory of beauty have to acknowledge? Scruton argues that appreciating beauty is a cogni…
4 years, 8 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 286: Malebranche on Causality and Theology (Part Three)
Concluding on On Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion (1688), with consideration of his explanation for why we can't prove the existence of the exte…
4 years, 8 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 286: Malebranche on Causality and Theology (Part Two)
Continuing on Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion (1688), dialogue 7 where he gets into his occasionalist theory of causality. How does this relate…
4 years, 8 months ago