Mysterium Tremendum

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 Jul 202315min

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 Jun 202320min

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 Jun 202310min

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 Jun 202317min

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 Mai 202314min

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 Mai 20237min

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 Mai 202318min

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 Apr 202319min