The Categories is Aristotle’s first attempt to outline a theory of being, in addition to the work’s central focus, which is to provide an account of the ways in which we think about being, and beings. In total, there are ten categories of thought about being, but the core of his theory of being begins with the first category. This is what he called “substance”. This essay will summarize Aristotle’s conception of substance as he presents it in The Categories, briefly explain what distinguishes substance from the other categories, and offer some additional thoughts about the metaphysics of being, in relation to Aristotle’s mentor, Plato.
+ diff --git a/content/shownote/Aristotle-101-The-Four-Causes.md b/content/shownote/Aristotle-101-The-Four-Causes.md index 556c034..98a0af9 100644 --- a/content/shownote/Aristotle-101-The-Four-Causes.md +++ b/content/shownote/Aristotle-101-The-Four-Causes.md @@ -3,5 +3,11 @@ title: "The Four Causes" date: 2020-02-27T23:20:28Z series: "Aristotle 101" image: https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/img/1295493-1582845588348-450f41e79954b.jpg -draft: true ---- \ No newline at end of file +draft: false +--- + +{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-02-27_8cec687245f86d0ab10bbe975c356f09.m4a" >}} + +Transcript can be {{< newtab url="/post/aristotle-101-the-four-causes/" title="found here." >}} + +> In the Physics, Aristotle says that we aim at understanding, which he says is to be able to give a full account of “the how and the why of things coming into existence and going out of it”. In other words, to understand something is to be able to give an explanation of how and why a thing changes. That explanation is what Aristotle means by ‘cause’. Today, thinking of explanation in terms of causes is not an alien notion. But, when we do this, we are typically only thinking in one narrow scientific sense of the term. Aristotle, however, describes a theory of causal explanation in both the Physics and the Metaphysics that includes four separate categorical senses of the term. Aristotle insists that a complete explanation will appeal to all four of these kinds of cause. In this answer, I will briefly describe the four causes, and attempt to explain why the fourth, ‘final’ cause is primary in Aristotle’s theory. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/shownote/Cultural-Knowledge-And-Discipline.md b/content/shownote/Cultural-Knowledge-And-Discipline.md index 761649a..3601238 100644 --- a/content/shownote/Cultural-Knowledge-And-Discipline.md +++ b/content/shownote/Cultural-Knowledge-And-Discipline.md @@ -3,5 +3,11 @@ title: "Cultural Knowledge and Discipline" date: 2019-06-30T23:39:02Z series: "1. Main Feed" image: https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/img/1295493-1561921958208-fd22b2408cfb.jpg -draft: true ---- \ No newline at end of file +draft: false +--- + +{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-02-17_5d73a5c13752bfa50890b8854fe2269d.m4a" >}} + +We're being robbed of our capacity for expression in more ways than just overt censorship. In the name of "liberation" from an ostensible "oppression" we are stripped of access to our cultural heritage, and denied the opportunity to learn the rules and principles that governed the creation of new art in previous generations. This is dangerous, and we ought to reject this.
+ +Full Transcript {{< newtab title="can be found here." url="/post/on-culture-knowledge-and-discipline/" >}} diff --git a/content/shownote/Interview-John-Holroyd-Judging-Religion.md b/content/shownote/Interview-John-Holroyd-Judging-Religion.md index ed8c388..023a5e4 100644 --- a/content/shownote/Interview-John-Holroyd-Judging-Religion.md +++ b/content/shownote/Interview-John-Holroyd-Judging-Religion.md @@ -4,4 +4,13 @@ date: 2019-11-10T23:29:54Z series: "1. Main Feed" image: https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/img/1295493-1573424704372-82de3d61ca406.jpg draft: true ---- \ No newline at end of file +--- + +{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-02-28_f8d982f11c04cf7105a0ec21597da316.m4a" >}} + +There is good reason why some people don’t want to talk about religion in polite company. Like conversations about politics, discussions about religion all too often set people at odds with each other in ways that are hard to predict and difficult to control.
+For all the controversy involved with such debate, this book invites the reader to engage with an ethical appraisal of religion(s) as they are practised today. It is written in the belief that this is an important dialogue for our time. It claims, despite the emotive character of the subject, that the free exchange of ideas and experience between people of differing views and commitments can with practice generate more light than heat.
+Particular effort is made to answer the question: how can we fairly evaluate the ethical character of religion(s)? It focuses especially but not at all exclusively on the religions of Christianity and Islam, being critical of them in many respects; but it also offers sharp rebuke to some of the perspectives of Richard Dawkins and others among the new atheists.
+ + + diff --git a/content/shownote/Schopenhauer-and-the-freedom-of-the-will.md b/content/shownote/Schopenhauer-and-the-freedom-of-the-will.md index 504a454..1a32fc5 100644 --- a/content/shownote/Schopenhauer-and-the-freedom-of-the-will.md +++ b/content/shownote/Schopenhauer-and-the-freedom-of-the-will.md @@ -3,5 +3,10 @@ title: "Schopenhauer and the Freedom of the Will" date: 2019-03-17T23:52:53Z series: "1. Main Feed" image: https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/img/1295493-1552858652749-f9ba6e217d75c.jpg -draft: true ---- \ No newline at end of file +draft: false +--- + +{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-02-15_119b0ae00c253dcd57b1e52f89879a9c.m4a" >}} + +You can find the {{< newtab url="/post/artur-schopenhauer-on-freedom/" title="transcript here." >}} For those interested in the original text out of which this dialogue was constructed, you can {{< newtab url="https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Philosophical-Classics-Norwegian-Sciences/dp/0486440117" title="find it here." >}} I highly recommend giving it a read, when you have some time. I'm a defender of free will, but Schopenhauer makes a defense of determinism here, that every libertarian must answer. + diff --git a/content/shownote/Terrorism-power-and-the-example-of-Christ.md b/content/shownote/Terrorism-power-and-the-example-of-Christ.md index 4649cef..871e87f 100644 --- a/content/shownote/Terrorism-power-and-the-example-of-Christ.md +++ b/content/shownote/Terrorism-power-and-the-example-of-Christ.md @@ -1,7 +1,11 @@ --- -title: "Terrorism Power and the Example of Christ" +title: "Terrorism, Power, and the Example of Christ" date: 2019-03-31T23:49:22Z series: "1. Main Feed" image: https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/img/1295493-1554023963100-371fceee072eb.jpg -draft: true ---- \ No newline at end of file +draft: false +--- + +{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-02-15_ec2e429cc1ec06e965e509426bb3d836.m4a" >}} + +The transcript for this episode can be found in {{< newtab url="/post/terror-responsibility-and-the-example-of-god/" title="this blog post." >}} I should probably put a warning on this podcast, because I discuss the Brenton Tarrant terror attack. But, I trust my audience to be able to handle it. So, take what you will from what I have to say. diff --git a/content/shownote/The-First-Question-Is-There-A-God.md b/content/shownote/The-First-Question-Is-There-A-God.md index 465a7d6..f3d0998 100644 --- a/content/shownote/The-First-Question-Is-There-A-God.md +++ b/content/shownote/The-First-Question-Is-There-A-God.md @@ -3,5 +3,12 @@ title: "The First Question: Is There a God?" date: 2020-02-21T23:23:34Z series: "1. Main Feed" image: https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/img/1295493-1582324187131-b1ae37a7ec12d.jpg -draft: true ---- \ No newline at end of file +draft: false +--- + +{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-02-21_3714fa981ba37d0f6f8a2478612bd2c6.m4a" >}} + +Transcript can be{{< newtab title="found here." url="/post/is-there-a-god/" >}} + +> This post is my first foray into the question of whether or not there is a God. Before I can begin to attempt an answer, I need to explore a deeper question. Namely, what is the nature of this question? What exactly are we asking, when we ask this question? I want to suggest that this question is best understood as a fundamental choice, and that the choice is not simply one of satisfying an ontological preference, but one of universal significance. The way one answers this question will define one’s entire life, indeed all life. It will condition the content of all of one’s relationships, and predispose the outcome of every subsequent choice. It will frame every subsequent question you will ask yourself, from the nature of morality and history, to the kinds of activities you engage in, day to day. This choice lies at the center of everything it means to exist, and to be human. Which fork of the dilemma you choose, is therefore, the most important choice you will ever make. + diff --git a/content/shownote/The-Struggle-Between-Public-and-Private.md b/content/shownote/The-Struggle-Between-Public-and-Private.md index 68a1bc2..6d876c9 100644 --- a/content/shownote/The-Struggle-Between-Public-and-Private.md +++ b/content/shownote/The-Struggle-Between-Public-and-Private.md @@ -3,5 +3,13 @@ title: "The Struggle Between Public and Private" date: 2019-06-09T23:42:44Z series: "1. Main Feed" image: https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/img/1295493-1560114663356-3cd272cfb7e3f.jpg -draft: true ---- \ No newline at end of file +draft: false +--- + +{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-02-17_c2676aeb7b7eb0e7b4993fdc00899ef0.m4a" >}} + +Full Transcript {{< newtab title="can be found here." url="/post/the-struggle-between-public-and-private/" >}} + +Summary: +> The role of the private sphere of life has been drastically eroded and diminished over the last twenty-five years, by the exploitation of network technology in the form of social media -- and the public scrutiny of private life doesn't stop with Twitter or Facebook. Everywhere, network connected devices are collecting data about your activities, your choices, your relationships, your habits, and your preferences. Doorbells, televisions, stereo systems, building security systems, and of course, computers and now the ubiquitous smartphone, all have microphones, cameras, GPS trackers, 'call home' beacons, and various other means of generating and vomiting data about you, to massive commercial institutions that are more than willing to hand that information over to political institutions, or even to openly publicize it for no other reason than to increase the potential for revenue generation. All digital records are fair game for exploitation. Emails, purchase receipts, government documents, video recordings, audio recordings, private chats, even files stored on local hard disks -- if they're connected to the internet, they're "public" in some sense enough to skirt legal limits. If your mother notes your birthday on her Facebook page, your birthdate is public record. If your girlfriend breaks up with you and rants about it on Twitter, your relationship status is public record. If you add your friends to your snapchat address book, your friends contact information is public record. What's more, if it's public, the automatic assumption is that it is fodder for not just commercial, but political action. Celebrity is now an abundant commodity, diluted across the entire population of internet-connected citizens, whether it wants that status or not. If you have a phone number, you are as much a celebrity as Megan Markle. The only difference, is that not everyone has heard of you yet. Where does this leave the status of the sphere of the private? When the only barrier left between public and private, is mere ignorance of your presence in this new ubiquitous public sphere, can it really be said that there is a private sphere anymore? + diff --git a/content/shownote/the-allegory-of-the-cave-what-it-is-and-what-it-means.md b/content/shownote/the-allegory-of-the-cave-what-it-is-and-what-it-means.md index fcfff3f..b3dab3c 100644 --- a/content/shownote/the-allegory-of-the-cave-what-it-is-and-what-it-means.md +++ b/content/shownote/the-allegory-of-the-cave-what-it-is-and-what-it-means.md @@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ image: https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/img/1295493-158560 draft: false --- +{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-02-14_ddc9c314bfb1765b223a935cf80471a7.m4a" >}} + This is the first official episode of the Exiting The Cave Podcast. What better way to kick things off, than with an explication of Plato's Allegory of the Cave? Unfortunately, the transcript for the episode was lost in the migration from WordPress to the static blog. However, I don't think the transcript is really all that necessary for this particular podcast. I think you'll find it more engaging as a listening experience, than a read. -{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-02-14_ddc9c314bfb1765b223a935cf80471a7.m4a" >}} -