Delphic Podcast by Michael R D James
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A series of episodes comparing and contrasting Campbells view of the universality and necessity of myth with the Philosophical and Metaphysical accounts of the Ancient Greek, Enlightenment, and Modern Hylomorphic and Critical Philosophy.
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S13E10 The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Memory S 13 E10
Deciding to forget a traumatic experience involving violence such as the establishment of Athens might be a kind of sublimation of ones own anger at oneself. Such an act may have a cathartic aspect…
S13E9 The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Memory S 13 E9
Freudian accounts of trauma and the compulsion to repeat until the trauma is "understood" and subjected to a process of catharsis are intimately connected to the themes of memory and forgetting. The…
S13E8 The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Memory S 13 E8
The work of remembering and the work of expectation are civilisation building and culture enhancing aspects of our "Being-in-the-world": the being in the world of the human psuché. The Bible, many…
S13E7 The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Memory S 13 E7
Nietzsche and the nihilstic force of the will to power and Collingwoods thesis that almost anything can be counted as historical evidence for anything sets the relativistic scene for Ricoeurs…
S13E6 The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Memory S 13 E6
The Work of remembering is not a work of the imagination but involves memory understanding, judgement and reasoning. Non Historical narratives may use the power of imagination to a greater degree…
S13E5 The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Memory S 13 E5
The civilising process is discussed in relation to modern relativising ideas and connected to a "rationalising process" rather than categorical rationality of the kind we encounter in the works of…
S13E4 The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Memory S 13 E4
Augustine asks the aporetic question "What is Time?", rejects the Aristotelian account that refers to external motion and insists instead upon some sort of "distention" of the soul. Historical…
S13E3 The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Memory S 13 E3
The school of inwardness was created by the thought of St Augustine, Descartes Hoobes, Locke and a number of 20th century Analytical Philosophers seeking to escape the "idealism" of Hegels…
S13E2 The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Memory S 13 E2
Memory has an aspect of something happening to one when one has learned something but it also has a more active aspect which Freud referred to as the "work of remembering" in his work with his…
S13E1 The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Memory S 13 E1
The Angel of History confronts the growing volume of debris of our modern era in the spirit of T S Eliots "Waste Land". Hannah Arendts voice of discontent is echoed by her lover Benjamin who commits…
S12E21 The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Time and Narrative vol 3 S 12 e 21
The Identity of a human is of course connected to the particular memories that human possesses but memory as such is not a part of the unique essence of being human since some animals aslo have…
S12E20 The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Time and Narrative vol 3 S 12 e 20
Refiguring Time may be what Historical writing is doing to everyday experience but it retains the before-after structure necessary to be subject to the principles of noncontradiction and sufficient…
S12E19 The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Time and Narrative vol 3 S 12 e 19
Marx turned Hegel on his head with his economic/sociological theory that eschewed all froms of abstraction. Kants Critical Philosophy experienced the same fate at the hands of Hegel in a period of…
S12E18 The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Time and Narrative vol 3 S 12 e 18
Wittgensteins account of the use of language rests upon instinct and action rather than on sensory powers. Ricoeurs insistence upon the "suspicious reader" and "interpretation" erode the trust…
S12E17 The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Time and Narrative vol 3 S 12 e 17
Kants aesthetics manifests traces of Aristotelian hylomorphic ideas which assist in the analysis of narrative works of art. The author uses forms, principles and aesthetic ideas in his imitations of…
S12E16 The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Time and Narrative vol 3 S 12 e 16
Bertellis essay on Aristotle and History confirms the view that Aristotles hylomorphic Philosophy would include historiography as an area of knowledge. An area that ought not to be reduced to some…
S12E15 The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Time and Narrative vol 3 S 12 e 15
Phenomenological "imaginative variations" in the context of action can violate the principle of noncontradiction in the case of problematic actions such as committing suicide but this does not…
S12E14 The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Time and Narrative vol 3 S 12 e 14
Historical traces in the form of historical documents are conceptual transfigurations of significant experienced events of magnitude that affect the weals and woes of the polis. Heidegger focuses…
S12E13 The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Time S 12 E 13
Inner time consciousness as conceived of phenomenologically would not meet the criteria of Aristotelian or Kantian accounts which would differ depending upon whether the contexts were theoretical or…
S12E12 The Delphic Podasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur, Time and Narrative S 12 E 12
Kant is accused of embracing an epistomological ontology when it is clear that he is highly critical of such positions , wishing to insist upon the importance of practical reasoning and the good will…
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