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Ep. 273: Friedrich Schelling's Foundationalist Idealism (Part One)
On Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling's System of Transcendental Idealism (1800).
What's the relationship between mind and world? Schelling thought t…
5 years, 3 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 272: Fichte's Idealist Theology (Part Two)
Continuing on The Vocation of Man (1799), Book II.
We focus on how ethics fits in with Fichte's epistemology in a unified theology with humans litera…
5 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 272: Fichte's Idealist Theology (Part One)
Our second full discussion on The Vocation of Man (1799).
What are the ethical implications of believing that the world is all in our minds? You coul…
5 years, 3 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 271: Johan Gottlieb Fichte's Transcendental Idealism (Part Two)
Continuing on The Vocation of Man (1799), Book II.
In this preview, we clarify whether Fichte is trying to keep the notion of a "real world" beyond o…
5 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 271: Johan Gottlieb Fichte's Transcendental Idealism (Part One)
On The Vocation of Man (1799), Books I and II. What is reality?
Fichte's armchair journey starts him considering nature and thus himself as determine…
5 years, 4 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 270: Classical Indian (Vedanta and Nyaya) Design Arguments for God (Part Two)
Continuing (without Stephen Phillips) on God and the World's Arrangement: Readings from Vedanta and Nyaya Philosophy of Religion. What does this trea…
5 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 270: Classical Indian (Vedanta and Nyaya) Design Arguments for God w/ Stephen Phillips (Part One)
On God and the World's Arrangement: Readings from Vedanta and Nyaya Philosophy of Religion with one of its translators, Stephen Phillips. Does nature…
5 years, 4 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 269: Arendt on Totalitarianism (Part Two)
Continuing on two of Hannah Arendt's 1953 essays on totalitarianism. We further discuss its logic and in the full episode get into its relevance for …
5 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 269: Arendt on Totalitarianism (Part One)
On "On the Nature of Totalitarianism" and On the Origins of Totalitarianism ch. 13 (both from 1953).
Is totalitarianism just an especially virulent f…
5 years, 5 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 268: Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" (Part Two)
Continuing on Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business with guest Brian Hirt. Is the written word really so much more…
5 years, 5 months ago