Episode #041 ... Belief

Today we talk about the book After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre. We talk about his genealogy of moral discourse. The teleologies of Aristotle. The failure of the Enlightenment moral project. Our modern culture of Emotivism and the sorts of characters that thrive in it. Shared pra ...  Show more

Today we talk about the play Hamlet written by William Shakespeare. We compare more traditional takes on the themes of the play to a more modern, philosophical analysis of the play done by Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster. We talk about Hamlet and his inability to take action ...  Show more

This podcast might ruffle your feathers a bit!  Let it.  Much of what your life looks like today is because of the beliefs you have developed over the years.  Because the beliefs we hold generally are derived either from our own observation and experience, or taught to us by t ...

In this podcast we cover realism: the common sense claim that there exists an external reality beyond our own minds that we can come to understand through the tools of science and reason more broadly. We compare this to some of the popular rivals that have cropped up over the yea ...  Show more

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Do your beliefs control you?

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Once faith was revered. Now in a secular age, it i ...