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Search Results for: "the simulacra"

Ep. 81: Jung on the Psyche and Dreams

June 9, 2019 by Leave a Comment

On Carl Jung's "Approaching the Unconscious" from Man and His Symbols, written in 1961. What's the structure of the mind? Jung followed Freud in positing an unconscious distinct from the conscious ego, but Jung's picture has the unconscious much more stuffed full of all sorts of stuff from who knows where, including instincts (the archetypes) that tend to give rise to  Continue Reading …

Episode 140: Beauvoir on the Ambiguous Human Condition

May 30, 2016 by Mark Linsenmayer 11 Comments

On Simone De Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947), parts I and II. For Wes Alwan's summary of this book, go here. We return to existentialism! Instead of describing our predicament as "absurd," de Beauvoir prefers "ambiguous": We are a biological organism in the world, yet we're also free consciousness transcending the given situation. Truly coming to terms with this  Continue Reading …

Song Self-Exam (Pilot and How-To): “Write Me Off” by Mark Lint

March 5, 2016 by Mark Linsenmayer 5 Comments

As an accompaniment to the Nakedly Examined Music podcast, I'm launching a project to collect song explanations from our musician listeners: Song Self-Exams. Now, I've long been doing something like this intermittently through my Nakedly Self-Examined Music posts on this blog, but video, where the song and the explanation are on the same video, is better, I think. Here's my  Continue Reading …

Ep. 48: Merleau-Ponty on Perception and Knowledge

October 30, 2015 by Leave a Comment

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Discussing Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "The Primacy of Perception and its Philosophical Consequences," (1946) and World of Perception, (1948). What is the relation of perception to knowledge? In M-P's phenomenology, perception is primary: even our knowledge of mathematical truths is in some way conditioned by and dependent on the fact that we are creatures with bodies and senses  Continue Reading …

Ep. 44: New Atheist Critiques of Religion

October 30, 2015 by 2 Comments

Discussing selections from Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel C. Dennett. Should we be religious, or is religion just a bunch of superstitious nonsense that it's past time for us to outgrow? Does faith lead to ceding to authority and potential violence? Can a reasonable person be religious Read more about the topic. Buy/read what we did: -Ch.  Continue Reading …

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