The End (Of the Beginning)
"This is the end, beautiful friend" - James Morrison. All endings may be deaths, but not all deaths are endings. And so it it is with this episode. We say goodbye to season three and our focus on beau...
18 Jun 202111min
Disinterested Attitudes
In this, the penultimate episode of season three, we finish our discussion of Kant's philosophy of beauty. In this discussion, we come to see that through the contemplation of beauty, our powers of pe...
4 Jun 202111min
RLP Holiday: For the Fallen (Memorial Day II)
In this episode we honor those who died in military service to their country. We reflect upon the thoughts of Pascal, who said "When I consider the brief span of my life… I take fright and am amazed t...
28 Mai 20217min
What Kant Said
A few episodes ago we put out a show titled, "What Aquinas Said". In that episode we laid out Thomas Aquinas' understanding of beauty. Aquinas was the greatest Medieval philosopher. In today's episo...
21 Mai 202111min
RLP Holiday - Mother's Day II: Heed Not the Darkness nor the Rain
Welcome to our second annual Mother's Day episode. Join us as we meditate on the meaning of motherhood through poetry and prose. To quote G.K. Chesterton: "How can it be a large career to tell other p...
7 Mai 20216min
Uh Oh, Hot Dog!
In this episode we finish pondering an insight of Gene Simmons', namely, that there is a difference between what tastes good and good taste. What does it say about our world that there is a difference...
7 Mai 20219min
Good Taste vs. What Tastes Good
Discussions of beauty, especially in our day, are often discussed in terms of taste. Taste, it is assumed, is a purely subjective thing. However, in this episode we contemplate a proposition proffer...
23 Apr 202111min
Heaven in Stone & Glass
The title of this week's episode comes from the title of a book by Bishop Robert Barron. C. S. Lewis wrote, "This is our dilemma - either to taste and not to know of to know and not to taste." In this...
9 Apr 20219min
