Ep. 367: Hume on the Foundations of Ethics (Part One)
On David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751). What is morality, and how can we know it? Hume claims that we simply find ourselves with sentiments morally approving and disappr...
19 Maj 202549min
Ep. 366: Edith Stein on Empathy (Part Two)
Continuing on The Problem of Empathy. What does it mean to say that we know other people's mental states "non-primordially"? We talk about Stein's project of explaining how empathy is possible, what i...
12 Maj 202550min
PREMIUM-PEL Sentimentalism Nightcap 2025
We put our recent episodes on moral phenomenology into perspective, anticipating our upcoming Hume discussion and going through some other options to enrich this study of sentiment vs. rational intuit...
9 Maj 202510min
Ep. 366: Edith Stein on Empathy (Part One)
On The Problem of Empathy (1917). What is empathy, and what is its significance? Stein pictures empathy as a dynamic process that involves what Scheler called sympathy but goes beyond this. Your don't...
5 Maj 202544min
Ep. 365: Scheler on Love (Part Two)
We conclude our treatment of Max Scheler's The Nature of Sympathy (1922), getting further into the Part II of the book about love and hatred and grappling with the puzzles about what exactly it is we ...
28 Apr 202552min
Ep. 365: Scheler on Love (Part One)
On The Nature of Sympathy (1922), Part II: "Love and Hatred." What is love, and how does it relate to ethics and to sympathy? For Scheler, love is a primitive, spontaneous movement from lower to highe...
21 Apr 202546min
Ep. 364: Max Scheler on Sympathy (Part Three)
Mark, Wes, and Dylan reconvened for one more hour on Part I, "Fellow Feeling" (ch. 3-4) in The Nature of Sympathy (1913/1922). We continue to try to figure out the razor's edge of "fellow feeling prop...
14 Apr 202550min
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
