RLP Holiday: Faith & Reason
In honor of Holy Week, this week's episode is devoted to the mystery of faith. In keeping with this season, we contemplate this mystery with a Modern philosopher, Blaise Pascal. Enjoy.
7 Apr 202315min
David Hume: Hume's Cave
Philosopher Peter Kreeft wrote that David Hume was, "the most formidable, challenging, and difficult to refute skeptic in the history of human thought. His logic is powerful." In this episode we tas...
24 Mar 202318min
RLP Holiday: The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
Is St. Patrick's Day a celebration of the Irish; Irish history, Irish storytelling, Ireland herself, or is St. Patrick's Day a celebration of a saint and of the one who molded the saint? We couldn't ...
17 Mar 202314min
David Hume: Party Guy
David Hume was the last of the great British Empiricists. He is the empiricist, nay, the philosopher of the Enlightenment, outside of perhaps Kant, who has exhibited the most influence over contempor...
10 Mar 202322min
Bishop George Berkeley: To Be Is To Be Perceived
Bishop George Berkeley was one of the three great British Empiricists. His view, Esse Est Percipi (To be is to be perceived), is as infamous as Descartes' view, Cogito Ego Sum (I think, I am). In th...
24 Feb 202313min
RLP Holiday: The Heart of the Matter
Philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote that, "the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing." In this episode we celebrate St. Valentine's Day by contemplating the heart. In particular, we read a...
10 Feb 20237min
John Locke: Are You Experienced?
John Locke was first of the great British Empiricists. Locke, and the empiricists who came after him, rejected the philosophy of the rationalists. In this episode, we uncork the empiricists, and dri...
3 Feb 202319min
G. W. F. Leibniz & God
Why is there something rather than nothing? This is a perennial philosophical question; a question taken up, perhaps most famously, by the Enlightenment rationalist, Leibniz. Leibniz and God, on thi...
20 Jan 202316min
