Sep 22
150: Julian Jaynes, Part 1 - Hearing Voices
What is consciousness? Julian Jaynes rejects all of the popular answers: that consciousness is thinking, reason, memory, or the capacity for learning. Nor does he think it can be accounted for as a merely accumulative development of "sentience" through evolution. In his controver ... Show More
1h 25m
Sep 15
149: The Laṅkāvatāra Sutra
In this episode, we're going to discuss what is likely the founding text of the Zen tradition, the Laṅkāvatāra Sutra. According to some of the earliest sources on Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen in China, the "Lanka" was the teaching whose "abstruse principle" he passed down to h ... Show More
1h 55m
Jun 2023
Episode 262: Supposing Truth is a Woman (Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil")
<p>David and Tamler dive into the first two parts of Nietzsche's <em>Beyond Good and Evil</em> which contain some of Nietzsche's best drive-bys on philosophers like Plato, Descartes, the Stoics, Kant, and Hegel along with beliefs in free will, hard determinism, Christianity, mora ... Show More
1h 28m
Jul 2023
Navigating Truth in this Cultural Moment
How does the power of love, grace, and truth influence our life choices?Amidst conflicting narratives in churches and the impact of cultural trends on our perception of truth, it becomes vital to anchor ourselves in the Word of God.Join us in this pivotal episode of Conversations ... Show More
21m 1s
The topic for this week is... The Truth. The Nietzschean view of truth is one of the most difficult positions to convey, because the nature of the topic requires pushing language to its limits. To question the value of truth-seeking seems antithetical to the very activity of philosophy. Is Nietzsche just being obstinate? Is he an irrationalist? Is he a postm ... Show More
<p>In this <a href="https://youtu.be/i5owZnjblT4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">live-streamed show</a>, we discuss "On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life" (1874), aka Untimely Meditation #2.</p> <p>What is the healthiest way to relate to our history? Nietzsche descri ... Show More
<p><img src="https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/32703/0689A.png" alt="" width="400" height="225" /><br /> <br /> This week, we're looking at Truth. Truth is often thought of as simple, and yet it is multifaceted! What is it? How do we know it when we encounter it? Additionally ... Show More