Whether Spinoza should be technically considered a pantheist or atheist, pastor Mark Driscoll here does sum up how the resultant view is different than the idea of a personal God standing outside of and judging his creation: In reviewing some Buddhist texts and listening to Buddhist podcasts for an upcoming podcast episode (ep 27), I’ve been thinking more about the Continue Reading …
Steven Nadler on Spinoza and Religious Fundamentalism
Steven Nadler of the University of Wisconsin gives a lecture re. Spinoza on religion: Watch this on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIYOC6RQ_LY Around 6 minutes in, he discusses the claim that Spinoza is a pantheist.
Spinoza and Leibniz: Anthony Quinton and Bryan Magee
We talked a bit on Ep 24 about Spinoza’s relationship to Leibniz, and here’s the first of a series of videos that gives more detail on that relationship: To watch this on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmbGbo-oyKc McGee’s introduction for the first three minutes or so just repeats biographical information we gave on the podcast. Quinton focuses on the metaphysics of the two Continue Reading …
Episode 24: Spinoza on God and Metaphysics (Citizens Only)
Discussing Spinoza’s Ethics (1677), books 1 and 2. God is everything, therefore the world is God as apprehended through some particular attributes, namely insofar as one of his aspects is infinite space (extension, i.e. matter) and insofar as one of his aspects is mind (our minds being chunks or “modes” of the big God mind).
End song: “Spiritual Insect,” by Mark Lint and the Fake from So Whaddaya Think? (2000).
Our new blog feed (that you should subscribe to)
People who only check our our podcast via iTunes and bookmark this page can ignore this message (unless you’d like to have blog content delivered to you instead…). If you previously subscribed to the Partially Examined Life via e-mail, or use a feed reader, or have this feed streaming to your site: The blog feed address has now changed. It Continue Reading …
PREVIEW-Episode 24: Spinoza on God and Metaphysics
Discussing Spinoza’s Ethics (1677), books 1 and 2. God is everything, therefore the world is God as apprehended through some particular attributes, namely insofar as one of his aspects is infinite space (extension, i.e. matter) and insofar as one of his aspects is mind (our minds being chunks or “modes” of the big God mind).
Revaluation of Values
“You know, the very baddest things are dying, and getting killed, and getting eaten, and getting cooked. And kindergarten, that is the next baddest thing.” -My niece, Izzy, age 5, worrying about her future
Armstrong on Approaching Religious Texts
This clip actually addresses my concern about the political vs. the philosophical. It describes Armstrong’s intellectual evolution from skeptic to sympathetic historian. -Mark
Armstrong on Dawkins and Harris
This is a follow up to my last post, which you should look at the comments on for some good comments by Wes. I’ve now read the part in Armstrong where she addresses Dawkins directly (from p. 304 of “The Case for God”): For Dawkins, religious faith rests on the idea that “there exists a superhuman, supernatural intelligence, who deliberately Continue Reading …
Armstrong and Dawkins
Continuing my independent (i.e. not directly for the podcast) reading into the atheism debate: Nearly done with the Karen Armstrong book. This is a good bit of secondary literature, with short summaries of the views re. God of a really impressively wide range of historical figures. Her overall view is that of apophatic, or negative theology, which is to say Continue Reading …
Favorite Philosophy Blogs?
As I’ve been checking out various philosophy podcasts, it struck me that I’ve neglected looking into online philosophy blogs. There’s good reason for this, of course: if I’m at a computer (or iPhone or whatever) reading philosophy, I’m probably doing research for one of our episodes. If podcasting weren’t such a new medium, and you all had ready access to Continue Reading …
Social contract R&B video
Just to get that last icky video off of the top spot of our blog here, I’m posting one more Rousseau-related video before I give up on that line of searching. So here’s a parody song video about Rousseau produced by an unidentified high school student. Largely due to the goofiness of the music, this made me smile:
The Social Contract and Libertarianism
Unlike pragmatism or the philosophy of mind, social contract theory is not so hot a topic among academic philosophers in youtube land. Rousseau (and Locke and Hobbes) are, of course, part of the canon and so taught as historical ideas, but I at least can’t name any big time current “social contract” philosophers like some of the folks I’ve presented Continue Reading …
More on Rousseau: Steven Smith
Here’s a lecture by Steve Smith from Yale University which kicks off with some additional juicy details re. Jean-Jacques’s life (Did you know he abandoned five of his kids to an orphanage? What a bastard!) and mentions a few specific points of influence beyond just hippies (also agrarian communist experimenters!) You can follow the links that appear after this clip Continue Reading …
Episode 23: Rousseau: Human Nature vs. Culture (Citizens Only)
Discussing Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse in Inequality (1754) and book 1 of The Social Contract (1762). What’s the relationship between culture and nature? Rousseau engages in some wild speculation about the development of humanity from the savage to the modern, miserable wretch.
End song: “Love Is the Problem” by New People from The Easy Thing (2009).
PREVIEW-Episode 23: Rousseau: Human Nature vs. Culture
Discussing Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse in Inequality (1754) and book 1 of The Social Contract (1762). What’s the relationship between culture and nature? Rousseau engages in some wild speculation about the development of humanity from the savage to the modern, miserable wretch.
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 30
As I hit the big 30 here, let me thank you for your indulgence, to the extent that you’ve actually been reading/listening. I’m marking this round number with another whole album, this time the debut full album by The MayTricks from 1992, cleverly entitled The MayTricks. As this was really the first full-length album I worked on, it definitely has Continue Reading …
Pragmatism is a tool of the devil!
I can’t embed this video, as whoever posted it deauthorized that feature, probably so you have to go to the site and see the giant Google ads and things (I see a big ad for Estee Lauder myself) hovering next to the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvialpgl9Jg Here we see that even though William James gave an extensive defense of religion, apparently naughty Continue Reading …
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 29
At last, here’s the final tune from the 1991 MayTricks demo (which I’ve made a new page for), “Her Skin Is Only Warm.” The song was written by Steve and was our most bombastic. It was modeled on The Rolling Stones’s “Steel Wheels” album, meaning it has kind of awkward “Rock! Rock!” lyrics, but it was actually describing a particular Continue Reading …
Later Pragmatists: Robert Brandom on language
OK, at this point I’m just going on youtube searches for “pragmatism;” I was not previously familiar with Brandom, though he is apparently well known and studied under Rorty and Princeton and has a beard that looks stunning when backlit. He has some interesting comments here about the historical point at which pragmatism as we read about it arose and Continue Reading …
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