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Ep. 298: Marsilio Ficino on Love (Part One)

July 25, 2022 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Subscribe to get parts 1 and 2 of this now, ad-free. On Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love (1475), with guest Peter Adamson from the History of Philosophy podcast joining Mark, Wes, and Seth. Attention: We'll be live-streaming video for our big ep. 300 on Friday, Aug. 19 at 8pm ET. More info at partiallyexaminedlife.com/pel-live. Leading up to that episode,  Continue Reading …

Ep. 298: Marsilio Ficino on Love (Part Two for Supporters)

July 22, 2022 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Continuing from part one on Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love (1475), with guest Peter Adamson. Peter gives us some context in terms of other Renaissance theories of love, and then we're back to the text, considering the role of beauty in the theory and how this connects to our recent coverage of various thinkers on aesthetics. We also fill out Ficino's neo-Platonic  Continue Reading …

Ep. 298: Marsilio Ficino on Love (Part One for Supporters)

July 22, 2022 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

On Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love (1475), with guest Peter Adamson from the History of Philosophy podcast joining Mark, Wes, and Seth. Attention: We'll be live-streaming video for our big ep. 300 on Friday, Aug. 19 at 8pm ET. More info at partiallyexaminedlife.com/pel-live. Leading up to that episode, we're continuing to revisit some classic themes, and this  Continue Reading …

Ep. 296: Heidegger Questions Being (Part Two)

July 4, 2022 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Subscribe to get Parts 1 and 2 ad-free plus tons of bonus content. Continuing our close reading of selections of Being and Time from part one, we come back on a different day without Wes and focus on two parts from the Introduction 2, sec. 7: Sec. 5, where Heidegger says why time has to be the focus of the ontological analysis of Dasein (i.e. his description of the  Continue Reading …

Ep. 296: Heidegger Questions Being (Part One)

June 27, 2022 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

Subscribe to get parts 1 and 2 of this now, ad-free. This close reading of sections near the beginning of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time (1926) is a direct sequel to ep. 32, which provides an overview of his project. In this episode and 297, we read and discuss particular textual passages, so you can experience along with us what it's like to read this text with its  Continue Reading …

Ep. 296: Heidegger Questions Being (Part Two for Supporters)

June 24, 2022 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

Continuing our close reading of selections of Being and Time from part one, we come back on a different day without Wes and focus on two parts from the Introduction 2, sec. 7: Sec. 5, where Heidegger says why time has to be the focus of the ontological analysis of Dasein (i.e. his description of the essential human condition).Part A, on what are phenomena, according to  Continue Reading …

Ep. 296: Heidegger Questions Being (Part One for Supporters)

June 24, 2022 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

This close reading of sections near the beginning of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time (1926) is a direct sequel to ep. 32, which provides an overview of his project. We re-introduced that episode in our most recent PEL Nightcap. In this episode and 297, we read and discuss particular textual passages, so you can experience along with us what it's like to read this text with  Continue Reading …

Ep. 286: Malebranche on Causality and Theology (Part One)

January 23, 2022 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Subscribe to get Parts 2 and 3 of this episode. You can hear previews of parts two and three. Hear this part ad-free. On Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion (1688), dialogues 5-7, featuring Mark, Wes, Dylan, and Seth. Continuing from ep. 285, we've gathered more of the pieces of Malebranche's picture of epistemology, metaphysics, and science to explain his most famous  Continue Reading …

Ep. 286: Malebranche on Causality and Theology (Part Two for Supporters)

January 22, 2022 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Continuing from part one on Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion (1688), dialogue 7 where he gets into his occasionalist theory of causality. We talk about how this theory relates to mind-body interaction and the student character Aristes argues that there's nothing more intimate than the relation of mind to body and how the teacher character Theodore smacks that claim  Continue Reading …

Ep. 286: Malebranche on Causality and Theology (Part One for Supporters)

January 22, 2022 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

On Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion (1688), dialogues 5-7, featuring Mark, Wes, Dylan, and Seth. Continuing from ep. 285, we've gathered more of the pieces of Malebranche's picture of epistemology, metaphysics, and science to explain his most famous view: Occasionalism, which is a theory of causality that says that God jumps in at every moment of causality. Is this view  Continue Reading …

Ep. 279: Aristotle’s “Categories” of Being (Part One)

October 10, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode. Listen to a preview. Hear this part ad-free. On the Categories (ca. 350 BCE), which purports to describe all the types of entities that exist. The participants are Mark, Wes, and Dylan. Sponsors: Get a free month of Great Courses lectures and lots of other great content at Wondrium.com/PEL. Get a free month's access to a vast  Continue Reading …

Ep. 279: Aristotle’s “Categories” of Being (Part Two for Supporters)

October 9, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Continuing from part one on the Categories, we finish up our discussion of substance by talking about artifacts: Only "genuine unities" are substances, and hammers and cups, for Aristotle, don't count as such unities. Should being a cup be considered instead a property like being white? Can properties be complex? We're actually not sure about natural objects like rivers,  Continue Reading …

Ep. 279: Aristotle’s “Categories” of Being (Part One for Supporters)

October 9, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

On the Categories (ca. 350 BCE), which purports to describe all the types of entities that exist. The participants are Mark, Wes, and Dylan. The most important of these Categories is substance, a term which primarily picks out individual natural things (a particular person, animal, plant, or material) and secondarily picks out the kinds that group those things (e.g. the  Continue Reading …

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

August 29, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode. Listen to a preview. 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  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 …

Advance Release: Philosophy vs. Improv #2

June 14, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Yes, this is happening, and you're getting this second installment in the new series in lieu of a Nightcap this week, as we couldn't get it together to record one between our two Fichte recordings, though we've already got one for you ready for the run-up to Schelling. Four episodes of PvI have now been recorded, and the website should be up within the next week. This  Continue Reading …

Ep. 271: Johan Gottlieb Fichte’s Transcendental Idealism (Part Two for Supporters)

June 6, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Continuing from part one on The Vocation of Man (1799), Book II. Is Fichte trying to keep the notion of a "real world" beyond our experience or not? It's part of the progression of the text that while at first he assumes that there must be something real behind this experienced world we as individuals create, he gives up that notion in the middle of Book II. So how does he  Continue Reading …

Ep. 270: Classical Indian (Vedanta and Nyaya) Design Arguments for God (Part One)

May 24, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode. Listen to a preview. Hear this part ad-free. On the new book God and the World’s Arrangement: Readings from Vedanta and Nyaya Philosophy of Religion, which presents two takes on the argument that God must exist because the world is a "product." The first is excerpted from the Brahma-sūtra (a.k.a. the Vedānta-sutra, compiled ca. the 2nd  Continue Reading …

Ep. 270: Classical Indian (Vedanta and Nyaya) Design Arguments for God (Part Two for Supporters)

May 21, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Continuing from part one on God and the World’s Arrangement: Readings from Vedanta and Nyaya Philosophy of Religion after the departure of our guest, Stephen Phillips. Wes grills Seth and Mark on what's really new here philosophically: We're all familiar with the design argument, so why wade through all these unfamiliar schools and archaic formulations? So we talk more about  Continue Reading …

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