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Ep. 322: Schelling on Art vs. Nature (Part Three)

August 7, 2023 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Subscribe to get parts 1-3 of this discussion ad-free, plus tons of bonus content. Mark and Wes conclude with some close reading of Part 6 of System of Transcendental Idealism (1800), section 3: "Relation of Art to Philosophy." What exactly is self-consciousness, and how to we achieve it? We try to really figure out Schelling's story about art in light of his general  Continue Reading …

Ep. 322: Schelling on Art vs. Nature (Part Two)

July 31, 2023 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Subscribe to get parts 1-3 of this discussion now, ad-free, plus tons of bonus content. Continuing (sans Seth) from part one on "On the Relation Between the Plastic Arts and Nature" (1807) and Part 6 of System of Transcendental Idealism (1800). We finish up the 1807 speech by talking about sculpture vs. painting and then move on to this penultimate chapter of this  Continue Reading …

Ep. 322: Schelling on Art vs. Nature (Part Three for Supporters)

July 28, 2023 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Mark and Wes conclude with some close reading of Part 6 of System of Transcendental Idealism (1800), section 3: "Relation of Art to Philosophy." What exactly is self-consciousness, and how to we achieve it? We try to really figure out Schelling's story about art in light of his general picture of the function of philosophy as revelatory of the self. Why should that even be  Continue Reading …

Ep. 322: Schelling on Art vs. Nature (Part One)

July 24, 2023 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Subscribe to get parts 1 and 2 of this now, ad-free, plus tons of bonus content. Discussing Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling's "On the Relation Between the Plastic Arts and Nature" (1807) and Part 6 of System of Transcendental Idealism (1800), featuring Mark, Wes, Dylan, and Seth. Sponsors: Give more effectively via GiveWell.org (and let them know we sent  Continue Reading …

Ep. 322: Schelling on Art vs. Nature (Part One for Supporters)

July 22, 2023 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Discussing Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling's "On the Relation Between the Plastic Arts and Nature" (1807) and Part 6 of System of Transcendental Idealism (1800), featuring Mark, Wes, Dylan, and Seth. Is the goal of art to imitate nature? Schelling says "sort of." It's not supposed to just be a copy, but is supposed to convey the true inner nature of its subject: It copies  Continue Reading …

Ep. 277: Hegel on Our Understanding of Physics (Part Two for Supporters)

August 29, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Continuing from part one our close reading of The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), ch. 3, "Force and the Understanding." We start off with the dynamic between the expressed and merely stored up aspects of force and how this relates to the forcing and the forced entities in the interaction. Which of these is the "solicitor" and which is being solicited? Either one can be seen  Continue Reading …

Ep. 277: Hegel on Our Understanding of Physics (Part One for Supporters)

August 29, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

On The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), ch. 3, "Force and the Understanding." What is "force" as physics describes it? And scientific law? Do these terms denote objects in the world, or models for how we describe the world? For Hegel, force is a way of talking about the metaphysical relation that one object has to other objects. Or taken from another perspective, it's the  Continue Reading …

Ep. 276: Hegel on Perception (Part One)

August 16, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode. Listen to a preview. On The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), ch. 1 "Sense Certainty" and ch. 2 "Perception." After introducing Hegel's project in ep. 275, we now walk through the first two steps of his dialectic where he presents some basic theories of knowledge and shows why they're inaccurate. The first of these is direct  Continue Reading …

Ep. 276: Hegel on Perception (Part One for Supporters)

August 13, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

On The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), ch. 1 "Sense Certainty" and ch. 2 "Perception." After introducing Hegel's project in ep. 275, we now walk through the first two steps of his dialectic where he presents some basic theories of knowledge and shows why they're inaccurate. The first of these is direct realism, the idea that perception is a simple matter of being directly  Continue Reading …

Ep. 275: Hegel’s Project in “The Phenomenology of Spirit” (Part Two for Supporters)

July 30, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Continuing from part one on the Introduction to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's big book (1807). We're up to section 81 now, getting more detail on what Hegel's goal in the book is and some of his basic terminology. He said that normally, we might think that in a philosophical investigation, there's some criteria for truth that is going to constitute the essence of that  Continue Reading …

Ep. 275: Hegel’s Project in “The Phenomenology of Spirit” (Part One for Supporters)

July 30, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

On the Introduction to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's early opus (1807), featuring Mark, Wes, Dylan, and Seth. This is the first of three episodes on this very challenging book. It's a book that demands slow, close reading, and in fact we only had time to talk about just the Introduction (X pages) even though we also read the Preface (X pages). So what is this project?  Continue Reading …

Ep. 274: Schelling on Self-Consciousness (Part One)

July 19, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 3 Comments

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode. Listen to a preview. On Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism (1800), Parts 1 and 2. This continues from Ep. 273 and features Mark, Wes, and Seth. If you're an idealist, and so think that all existence is somehow in our minds, then the key to any knowledge whatsoever would have to be an  Continue Reading …

Ep. 274: Schelling on Self-Consciousness (Part Two for Supporters)

July 17, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Concluding our treatment of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism (1800), Parts 1 and 2. Start with part one. What sort of self is created in the singular act of self-consciousness that according to Schelling grounds all knowledge? It can't be your personality, or the thing that makes all of your various experiences uniquely yours, because  Continue Reading …

Ep. 274: Schelling on Self-Consciousness (Part One for Supporters)

July 17, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

On Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism (1800), Parts 1 and 2. This continues from Ep. 273 and features Mark, Wes, and Seth. If you're an idealist, and so think that all existence is somehow in our minds, then the key to any knowledge whatsoever would have to be an understanding of the mind. Schelling thought in particular that in the act of  Continue Reading …

Ep. 273: Friedrich Schelling’s Foundationalist Idealism (Part Two for Supporters)

July 3, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 3 Comments

Continuing from part one on the introduction of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism (1800). After a detour into psychologism, we're back to mind vs. world: The only thing that explains the apparent harmony between the world and our knowledge of it (and also our will and what we're able to enact in the world via it) is if they somehow come  Continue Reading …

Ep. 273: Friedrich Schelling’s Foundationalist Idealism (Part One for Supporters)

July 3, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

On Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism (1800), introduction, featuring Mark, Wes, Dylan and Seth. What's the relationship between mind and world? Schelling, as a young acolyte of Fichte, thought that our minds produce the world, but also that the perceiver-world dichotomy comes to us as a single piece, and that "transcendental philosophy"  Continue Reading …

Ep. 272: Fichte’s Idealist Theology (Part One)

June 21, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode. Listen to a preview. Continuing from ep. 271 to cover the rest (Books II and III) of The Vocation of Man (1799), featuring Mark, Wes, Dylan and Seth. What does idealism, the idea that what we take to be the external world is really just a part of the mind, entail that we do? It seems like we should just be solipsists and hence  Continue Reading …

Ep. 272: Fichte’s Idealist Theology (Part Two for Supporters)

June 20, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Concluding our coverage of The Vocation of Man (1799), Books II and III. This discussion continues part one. We start out with a bit more wondering about how we build objects with our mind, in particular about whether this entirely uniform because we all have the same psychology as humans, or whether it might seriously vary according to your cultural group or individual  Continue Reading …

Ep. 272: Fichte’s Idealist Theology (Part One for Supporters)

June 19, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Continuing from ep. 271 to cover the rest (Books II and III) of The Vocation of Man (1799), featuring Mark, Wes, Dylan and Seth. What does idealism, the idea that what we take to be the external world is really just a part of the mind, entail that we do? It seems like we should just be solipsists and hence nihilists: Everything is just in my mind, and so none of the rest of  Continue Reading …

Ep. 271: Johan Gottlieb Fichte’s Transcendental Idealism (Part One)

June 7, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode. Listen to a preview. Hear this part ad-free. On The Vocation of Man (1799), Books I and II, featuring Mark, Wes, Dylan and Seth. What is reality? Fichte is known as a key interpreter of Immanuel Kant who removed the idea of the "thing-in-itself," i.e. reality apart from how we interpret it, from Kant's system. Kant had described how  Continue Reading …

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