Episode 1685 - Friday, January 28, 1983

Standard Countertop Position Chekhov's Lasagna is a dramatic principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed; elements should not appea...

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Garfield's belly as depicted yesterday and today, side by side GARFIELD:Let us from point to point this story know,To make the even truth in pleasure flow.To JON ARBUCKLEIf thou be'st yet a fresh un...

25 Juli 201720min

This week's podcast was narrowly rescued from the brink of death by noted American hero and Robert Goulet enthusiast Danny Gibson. You can follow him on Twitter @FasterDuckworth.And a good thing too b...

24 Juli 201747min

If what is "self-evident" and this alone--"the covert judgements of common reason" (Kant)--is to become and remain the explicit theme of out analysis (as "the business of philosophers"), then the appe...

23 Juli 201724min

3. "Being" is the self-evident concept. "Being" is used in all knowing and predicating, in every relation to beings and in every relation to oneself, and the expression is understandable "without furt...

22 Juli 20177min

2. The concept of "being" is indefinable. This conclusion was drawn from its highest universality. And correctly so--if definitio fit per genus proximum et differentiam specificam [if "definition is a...

21 Juli 201714min

1. "Being" is the most "universal" concept: to on esti katholou malista panton. Illud quod primo cadit sub apprehensione est ens, cuius intellectus includitur in omnibus, quaecumque quis apprehendit. ...

20 Juli 201711min

At the beginning of this inquiry the prejudices that constantly instill and repeatedly promote the idea that a questioning of being is not needed cannot be discussed in detail. They are rooted in anci...

19 Juli 201714min