37. Social Harmony Requires the Denial of One's Own Self-assertion
Release Date: 05/17/2022
Novelist as Visionary: On Cormac McCarthy's 'Blood Meridian'
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Hey! This episode is one of eight older episodes from 2020-2021 that I am re-uploading to this channel. They are episodes from back when I first got into podcasting, when I called my podcast 'Metaphor & Reality', instead of 'About Reality'. You'll see the older cover art for the 'Metaphor & Reality' version of the podcast uploaded with these eight episodes to tell them apart. I always liked these episodes, and have had them saved on my computer since discontinuing the older podcast. You'll notice these older episodes feature writers from a range of disicplines, not explicitly to do...
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Reading 'What Is Sex' by Alenka Zupancic
About Reality Podcast
Hey! This episode is one of eight older episodes from 2020-2021 that I am re-uploading to this channel. They are episodes from back when I first got into podcasting, when I called my podcast 'Metaphor & Reality', instead of 'About Reality'. You'll see the older cover art for the 'Metaphor & Reality' version of the podcast uploaded with these eight episodes to tell them apart. I always liked these episodes, and have had them saved on my computer since discontinuing the older podcast. You'll notice these older episodes feature writers from a range of disicplines, not explicitly to do...
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Part 2: Honoré de Balzac's 'Lost Illusions'
About Reality Podcast
Hey! This episode is one of eight older episodes from 2020-2021 that I am re-uploading to this channel. They are episodes from back when I first got into podcasting, when I called my podcast 'Metaphor & Reality', instead of 'About Reality'. You'll see the older cover art for the 'Metaphor & Reality' version of the podcast uploaded with these eight episodes to tell them apart. I always liked these episodes, and have had them saved on my computer since discontinuing the older podcast. You'll notice these older episodes feature writers from a range of disicplines, not explicitly to do...
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Honoré de Balzac's 'Lost Illusions'
About Reality Podcast
Hey! This episode is one of eight older episodes from 2020-2021 that I am re-uploading to this channel. They are episodes from back when I first got into podcasting, when I called my podcast 'Metaphor & Reality', instead of 'About Reality'. You'll see the older cover art for the 'Metaphor & Reality' version of the podcast uploaded with these eight episodes to tell them apart. I always liked these episodes, and have had them saved on my computer since discontinuing the older podcast. You'll notice these older episodes feature writers from a range of disicplines, not explicitly to do...
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A Reading of Book VIII from Plato's 'Republic'
About Reality Podcast
Hey! This episode is one of eight older episodes from 2020-2021 that I am re-uploading to this channel. They are episodes from back when I first got into podcasting, when I called my podcast 'Metaphor & Reality', instead of 'About Reality'. You'll see the older cover art for the 'Metaphor & Reality' version of the podcast uploaded with these eight episodes to tell them apart. I always liked these episodes, and have had them saved on my computer since discontinuing the older podcast. You'll notice these older episodes feature writers from a range of disicplines, not explicitly to do...
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56. To Practice Philosophy, One Must Learn How to Love
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To be honest, as I upload this episode I am realizing I may have expressed this sentiment in a previous recording, that the philosopher must first learn how to love if they are to practice philosophy aright. 'Philosophy' as a 'love of wisdom', where emphasis always seems placed on the wisdom, rather than the love; however, to love is to transcend one's self concern for the concern of another, and to learn how to do this is the beginning of wisdom, for why else seek to be wise? Unless one equates wisdom with utlitarian knowledge an individual may possess which they can then use to their...
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55. When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a Philosopher
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If I am going to claim to practice philosophy, and ostensibly occupy the position of philosopher and represent myself as such, I better be able to back that up by what I am saying. That's a pretty simple description of a basic responsibility of the philosopher, but it applies to anyone professing to be any identifiable figure and impactful member within society, that they must speak like that person they present themselves as: doctor, police officer, lawyer, veterinarian, history professor. Speaking with the integrity of one who has dedicated themselves to truly be ___, may just be at the core...
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54. The Moral Consequence of Our Being
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In this episode, philosophers are those who have become cognizant of the moral weight of their thought, and are concerned by it. In fact, they see thinking as equivalent with the recognition of the moral impact of their being within reality; in other words, they think that to be amoral is to be without thought, while to be immoral is to act against the inevitable conclusions of thought, which are always underscored by the acknowledgement of the moral consequence of our being.
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53. Nature Is Not A Problem / Psychologists are Civilization's Ministers
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Low energy episode. First one recorded in weeks, and I'm uploading it to see how it feels. Another idea for this episode's title could be: 'Moments of Empty Satisfaction'. Peace and love to you
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52. The Empty Freedom in David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest'
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A guest episode with Nikole, wherein we discuss David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest' and the societal problems which the individuals in his novel must grapple and cope with, as they realize in this life they have one of two choices to make: succumb to endless pleasure for lack of any other option, or else delay their gratification for the sake of a lifestyle that is healthier for them mentally and physically.
info_outlineThe irony of today's social and political climate is that so many individual voices, in our so-called democracy, are insisting that their voices be heard and their status as self-defining individuals recognized for the sake of social harmony. In other words, we have individuals—call them activists—who feel within themselves that they will not rest until the group which they represent, even if it's a group of one, is acknowledged by the current social order—even if that means upending the current social order entirely. In part this is an unfair description of an activist. In part this is a consequence of many self-proclaimed activists, whose voice is so loud they are shaping the conversation, also existing within an elitist milieu, where self-assertion and a careerist mindset and agenda are a part of their conception of activism. In this episode we go deep into what is described as a 'perennial psychological drama', and we address it with a helping hand from Schopenhauer.
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