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E. S. Dallaire
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Reading 'What Is Sex' by Alenka Zupancic
Hey! This episode is one of five 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…
Novelist as Visionary: On Cormac McCarthy's 'Blood Meridian'
Hey! This episode is one of five 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…
Part 2: Honoré de Balzac's 'Lost Illusions'
Hey! This episode is one of five 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…
Honoré de Balzac's 'Lost Illusions'
Hey! This episode is one of five 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…
A Reading of Book VIII from Plato's 'Republic'
Hey! This episode is one of five 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…
56. To Practice Philosophy, One Must Learn How to Love
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…
55. When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a Philosopher
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…
54. The Moral Consequence of Our Being
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…
53. Nature Is Not A Problem / Psychologists are Civilization's Ministers
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
52. The Empty Freedom in David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest'
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…
51. Marshall McLuhan's 'The Medium Is The Message'
Picked this book up at a used book store two weeks ago - just getting started on it, and so far it is dynamite! Thank you for tuning in!
50. Consciousness Cannot Be Improved Upon
This episode is relaunching the series, so in it I spend time stating what is the purpose and intention of continuing with the 'About Reality' Podcast. I am very excited to resume podcasting about…
49. The Discoveries of Philosophers
This episode about how the thoughts we are able to think are limited or bounded by the assumptions we hold about reality, including notions of time, of the freedom of the individual versus…
48. A Philosopher's Reaction to the Threat of Nuclear War
What does it take for an individual, or a nation, to forget what history has inscribed on their land and their psyche, in order to be able to see the reality of the moment for what it is, and resolve…
47. Has Civilization Sterilized the Human Animal
Let's forget everything we thought we knew, without letting go of all that we've gained. Thank you for tuning in! Please subscribe and rate! It's very much appreciated. 'About Reality' Substack:…
46. Questioning the Knowledge to Be Gained From Experience
Exploring a classical philosophical question today, owing to the past month where I've undergone a change in perspective in my valuation of knowledge gained through books and theory versus what is…
45. Still Reaching Toward Truth Even as We Neglect Our Local Reality
Still searching for the philosopher as heroic figure embodying the spirit of the present age, and the need we may have, insofar as we are seekers of truth, to find someone who practices a wisdom…
44. Kant's Teleology and the Philosopher as Hero
This weekend I was reading the second part of Kant's 'Critique of Judgment', as well as the fourth book of volume one of Schopenhauer's 'The World as Will and Representation', and in this episode I…
43. Evaluation of Good and Bad (Action) Is Beyond Us
Here we make an argument that 'good' and 'bad' are stagnant terms for evaluating emergent phenomena in an ever-changing world, and that as terms of judgment they refer back to a static and…
42. Concerning the Metaphysician in Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse'
Can a philosopher of ethics get away without a metaphysics to support or corroborate their ethical theory? Can a metaphysician get away with leaving unexamined the existence of good and evil, as well…
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