Ep. 364: Max Scheler on Sympathy (Part Two)
Continuing on The Nature of Sympathy (1913/1922), Part I: "Fellow Feeling," Ch. 1-4. We look more closely at the text, getting further into how fellow feeling relates to ethics, and why the moral sent...
7 Apr 202552min
Ep. 364: Max Scheler on Sympathy (Part One)
On The Nature of Sympathy (1913, expanded 1922), Part I: "Fellow Feeling," Ch. 1-4. What is it to feel sympathy (aka "fellow feeling") for another person? It is NOT to "identify" with that person; et...
31 Mar 202546min
PEL Presents Closereads: Husserl on Perceiving Minds
On Edmund Husserl's Ideas, Vol. 2 (1928), Section 3, "The Constitution of the Spiritual World," Ch. 1, "Opposition Between the Naturalistic and Personalistic Worlds." Given Husserl's method of "redu...
28 Mar 20251h 2min
Ep. 363: Franz Brentano's Moral Epistemology (Part Two)
Continuing on "The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong" (1889), getting into how we measure the comparative value of things. While Brentano does observe actual practices in these areas, his phe...
24 Mar 202549min
Ep. 363: Franz Brentano's Moral Epistemology (Part One)
On "The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong" (1889). What justifies basic moral facts? Brentano claims that right there in our experience, we can rationally sense with complete certainty that c...
17 Mar 202548min
Ep. 362: Ecclesiastes: Biblical Existentialism? (Part Two)
Continuing on Ecclesiastes with guest Jesse Peterson, getting into some more close reading of particular sections. We make some connection from the author's observations to ancient Greek Skepticism, E...
10 Mar 202551min
Ep. 362: Ecclesiastes: Biblical Existentialism? (Part One)
Ecclesiastes is often cited as one of the most philosophical books of the Bible, so we approached it in that spirit with the help of Jesse M. Peterson, whose soon-to-be-published book is called Qohele...
3 Mar 202544min
Ep. 361: Marx on Machines (Part Two)
On "Fragment on Machines" (1858). Shouldn't automating work free workers? Not according to Marx, until capitalism is overthrown. Until then, automation actually just makes labor conditions worse and c...
24 Feb 202556min
