RLP Special: Life Is a Pigsty (Refreshed)
Approximately five years ago we posted our first episode. The episode was, and is, titled, Life Is A Pigsty. In this episode, we reexamine, and elaborate upon, that first episode. Morrissey, Cheste...
14 Heinä 202315min
Farewell & Adieu
In this episode of Red Letter Philosophy, we bid farewell to season five. We've been on a metaphysical journey through Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and contemporary philosophy. What conclusions can b...
30 Kesä 202320min
RLP Holiday: Fatherhood & Reality
Is it, as Freud said, that we are projecting our fathers onto the face of God, or is it that we project our inner knowledge God onto the face of our fathers? Do our desires and expectations come from...
16 Kesä 202310min
Thomas Howard: Chance or Dance?
Is it that nothing means anything or that everything means everything? Two myths, two ways of understanding life and the world; the culmination of Augustine, Pascal, and our season: on this week's Re...
9 Kesä 202317min
St. Augustine: My Love Is My Gravity
St. Augustine's wrote that "Amor meus, Pondus meum"; My love is my gravity. Perhaps our search for what truth and reality is not only an intellectual search? Perhaps the heart can have reasons of wh...
26 Touko 202314min
RLP Holiday: Monica's Tears
The essence of Motherhood: a metaphysical question. Motherhood is surely many things, but if it is anything, it is also surely a kind of life, a life of prayer. A mother is one who raises her mind a...
12 Touko 20237min
David Hume & Belief in God, Pt. II
Hume, contrary to popular belief, never intended to destroy belief in God. He only meant to destroy a certain conception of belief, and belief in God. In this episode we contemplate Hume's criticism...
5 Touko 202318min
David Hume & Belief in God
The English philosopher and mathematician, W. K. Clifford, famously wrote that, "It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence." Clifford's approach t...
21 Huhti 202319min
