RLP Holiday: The Ballad of God Makers (Easter II)
"Then a shriek went up like the world's last cry From all nations under heaven, And a master fell before a slave And begged to be forgiven." So wrote G. K. Chesterton. A poetic reflection upon the mea...
2 Apr 20215min
What Aquinas Said
In this episode we ask an empirical question: as we encounter beauty in this world, do we notice any patterns? Are there characteristics that all, or most, beautiful things posses? We take up this que...
26 Mars 202112min
RLP Holiday: St. Patrick's Day II
Escaping enslavement by the Irish, Patrick returns to his former captors, not for revenge; but liberation. Some reflections on St. Patrick on today's special episode of Red Letter Philosophy.
17 Mars 20216min
The Argument from Beauty
Beauty, we have learned, cannot be completely subjective. She resists attempts to reduce her to material phenomena and scientific analysis. In today's episode we make explicit what has been implicit i...
12 Mars 202110min
Betwixt Mortal & Immortal
In this episode we continue our elucidation of beauty. We discuss Plato's view that love then is a ladder between the ideal and the material, between God and man; evidence of another world, a higher r...
26 Feb 202110min
RLP Holiday: Valentine's Day III - Socratic Love
Valentine's Day marks a time or season; a time for love. One of the earliest soliloquies on love comes from Socrates. In one of Plato's great dialogs, The Symposium, Socrates gathers with some friends...
12 Feb 20215min
The Symposium (Beauty & Love)
Beautiful women, beautiful days, beautiful plays: The manifestations of beauty are many. But what is it that makes all beautiful things beautiful? What is the one among the many? In this episode we co...
12 Feb 202110min
Plato's Hippias Major (On Maidens and Gods)
In episodes 8 & 9, we looked at what the nature of beauty says about us (philosophical anthropology), and what the nature of beauty says about the world (something moves behind the scenes). In this ep...
29 Jan 202114min
