#109 - Love and the Search for God: Thomas Merton on Rilke, Monastic versus Lay Living, and Finding God
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, be...
7 Sep 202459min
#108 - The Philosophy of Simone Weil: Sister Ann Astell on Loving Attention, Interfaith Dialogue, Vatican 2, and Christian Mysticism
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon When we are the victims of illusion, we do not feel it to be an illusion but a reality. It is the same perhaps with evil. Evil when we are in i...
6 Sep 202447min
#107 - A Medicine More Fit for Humanity: Iain McGilchrist on Anti-Materialism, the Divided Brain, and How Art and Literature Can Improve Medicine
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon According to Max Planck, ‘Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of...
6 Sep 202452min
#106 (LABOR DAY SPECIAL) - Why I Am Still A Communist: Slavoj Zizek on Stalin's Terror, the Consequences of Neoliberalism, and the Refugee Crisis
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fas...
2 Sep 20242h 14min
#105 - The Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza: J. Thomas Cook on Pantheism, the Geometric Method, and Life as a Jewish Heretic
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon A Portuguese Jew living in Holland, Spinoza was excommunicated because of the unorthodox view he took of God. Spinoza wrote in the rationalist ...
2 Sep 20242h 36min
#104 - The Philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard: George Connell on Infinite Resignation, the Knight of Faith, and the Path to the Spiritual Life
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins. -Soren Kierkegaard, 1848 For Kierkegaard, truth is a subjective real...
1 Sep 20242h 44min
#103 - The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas: Kenneth L. Schmitz on Scholasticism, the Proof of God's Existence, and the Beatific Vision
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Thomas Aquinas is the smartest man who ever lived - with the sole exception of Jesus Christ. -Peter Kreeft, Professor of Philosophy at Boston C...
30 Aug 20242h 34min
#102 - The Philosophy of David Hume: Nicholas Capaldi on the Fact/Value Distinction, the Problem of Induction, and Natural Religion
Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon David Hume (1711-1776) has been called "the greatest philosophical mind in the English language" by Cornel West, and is one of the most influen...
23 Aug 20242h 16min
