Hume and Art
In this episode, I discuss how Hume deals with the problem of subjectivism in artistic appreciation. If beauty is just a feeling, and not a property of objects, how can anyone be wrong about their jud...
10 Jan 202224min
Art and the Enlightenment
In this episode, I discuss how the theory of beauty, or aesthetics, developed during the Enlightenment. Aesthetic judgement has to do with how we react to works of art and beauty in nature. I discuss ...
4 Jan 202238min
Religion and the Enlightenment
In this episode, I discuss the attitude of Enlightenment thinkers towards religion. I discuss how they sought to purge religion of any unreasonable elements involving miracles and supernaturalism. The...
27 Dec 202133min
Ethics in the Enlightenment
In this episode, I discuss how ethics changed in the Enlightenment. The classical basis in ethics, in the Platonic intelligible domain, and the Aristotelian teleology, was lost in the secular naturali...
21 Dec 202146min
Political Thought of the Enlightenment
In this episode, I discuss he transition from a faith-based, mystical view of political authority to a rational and secular order. In the Enlightenment, politics is based on the consent of the governe...
15 Dec 202138min
Kant’s Reconciliation of the Two Images
I continue in this podcast to describe how Immanuel Kant reconciles the religious and the mechanistic understanding of humanity. Kant uses transcendental idealism to show that our experience of lawful...
8 Dec 202111min
Enlightenment and Subjectivity Part I
In this episode, I show the dual conceptions of humanity produced in the Enlightenment. On the one hand, the Enlightenment shows a new pride in which humanity claims to know the world through unaided ...
8 Dec 202114min
The Metaverse and the Enlightenment Part II, III
In this episode, I continue to trace the intellectual roots of the Metaverse and the current “toxic” moment in human history in which intellectual trends of the past have reached a culmination. I disc...
28 Nov 20211h 12min
