Episode #084 ... William James on Truth

Today we talk about Kurt Vonnegut’s book Slaughterhouse-Five. How war stories can distort the reality of war, how trauma can fracture our experience of time and identity, and why Billy Pilgrim becomes attracted to the strange philosophy of the Tralfamadorians. Hope you love it. : ...  Afficher plus

Today we talk more about Peter Sloterdijk’s book You Must Change Your Life. We talk about Heidegger, the subject-object view of the world, how environments form us, symbolic immunity, modern cynicism, vertical tension, base camps, civilizations as collective immune systems, and w ...  Afficher plus

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This week, we're looking at Truth. Truth is often thought of as simple, and yet it is multifaceted! What is it? How do we know it when we encounter it? Additionally ...

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David and Tamler return to the work of old favorite William James and argue about the 6th lecture (inspired by the French philosopher Henri Bergson) of his 1909 book "A Pluralistic Universe." James attacks the philosophical habit of elevating unchanging concepts over the conti ...

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In this episode, we read a recent piece from Darin A. Lahners of the Midnight Freemason blog that questions if we as Freemasons, can ever be good and true. Darin raises so ...