CultureCast

In this episode, I discuss how Hume deals with the problem of subjectivism in artistic appreciation. If beauty is just a feeling, and not a property of objects, how can anyone be wrong about their jud...

10 Tammi 202224min

In this episode, I discuss how the theory of beauty, or aesthetics, developed during the Enlightenment. Aesthetic judgement has to do with how we react to works of art and beauty in nature. I discuss ...

4 Tammi 202238min

In this episode, I discuss the attitude of Enlightenment thinkers towards religion. I discuss how they sought to purge religion of any unreasonable elements involving miracles and supernaturalism. The...

27 Joulu 202133min

In this episode, I discuss how ethics changed in the Enlightenment. The classical basis in ethics, in the Platonic intelligible domain, and the Aristotelian teleology, was lost in the secular naturali...

21 Joulu 202146min

In this episode, I discuss he transition from a faith-based, mystical view of political authority to a rational and secular order. In the Enlightenment, politics is based on the consent of the governe...

15 Joulu 202138min

I continue in this podcast to describe how Immanuel Kant reconciles the religious and the mechanistic understanding of humanity. Kant uses transcendental idealism to show that our experience of lawful...

8 Joulu 202111min

In this episode, I show the dual conceptions of humanity produced in the Enlightenment. On the one hand, the Enlightenment shows a new pride in which humanity claims to know the world through unaided ...

8 Joulu 202114min

In this episode, I continue to trace the intellectual roots of the Metaverse and the current “toxic” moment in human history in which intellectual trends of the past have reached a culmination. I disc...

28 Marras 20211h 12min