Remi Brague: The Attack on Western Culture
In this episode, I discuss a recent interview with Remi Brague, a prominent European thinker. He documents the phenomenon of “cancel culture.” It is common to hear about this, but we must not take it ...
17 Mar 202232min
Ben Franklin’s Treatise on Human Liberty
In this episode, I discuss a fascinating and vigorous philosophical treatise by a great American, Benjamin Franklin. It is called “A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain.” Franklin...
28 Feb 202238min
Adorno and the Dialectic of the Enlightenment
In this episode, I discuss how Adorno views the Enlightenment as sliding inevitably towards totalitarianism. The Enlightenment seeks to reduce reality to numerical rationality. It suffers no exemption...
20 Feb 202234min
Aporia, Time, and Death
Aporia is a state of speechlessness in which we are unable to articulate a mysterious phenomenon. In this podcast, I explore the precarious existence of time, and how it is an aporia insofar as it is ...
13 Feb 202234min
Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic and Identity Politics
In this episode, I illuminate the modern notion of identity politics through a description of Hegel’s parable of the master and the slave. This parable is about how consciousness views itself as a tra...
6 Feb 202234min
Postmodernism, Nietzsche, and Theothanatology
In this episode, I discuss again the death of God theology. I root this movement in the rational religion of Kant, which sought to remove the doctrines of historical religions and make them subordinat...
29 Jan 202242min
Postmodernism: The Death of God Theology
In this podcast, I discuss how postmodernism represents a radicalization of the Enlightenment. Not only is faith abandoned, but human reason’s ability to develop objective knowledge is challenged. Pos...
23 Jan 202245min
Kant’s Aesthetics
In this podcast, I go over Kant’s great work, The Critique of the Power of Judgment. I discuss the difference between the beautiful and the sublime. I discuss what Kant means by free play, in the inte...
16 Jan 202243min
