Closereads: Philosophy with Mark and Wes

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  • Reading through difficult philosophy texts line-by-line to try to figure out what’s really being said.
    Mark Linsenmayer and Wes Alwan 2024
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Philosophy Social Sciences
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  • William James on Asceticism and Saints (Part One)

    William James on Asceticism and Saints (Part One)
    Sep 18 2024
    On "The Varieties of Religious Experience," the conclusion of lecture 15. Why do some saintly types engage in ascetic practices like voluntary poverty? James thinks we could all do with some self-discipline of this sort, as extreme as the examples of literary saints may be. Self-denial is a less destructive way of expressing a martial character than actually going to war. Read along with us, starting on p. 352 (PDF p. 369). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Plotinus on The Intelligence (Part Two)

    Plotinus on The Intelligence (Part Two)
    Sep 12 2024
    On "The Intelligence, The Ideas, and Being," starting on section 6. What is "The Intelligence" anyway? How does its storehouse of Forms get into the material world? Read along with us, starting on p. 51. To get part 3, subscribe at patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Plotinus on The Intelligence (Part One)

    Plotinus on The Intelligence (Part One)
    Sep 10 2024
    On "The Intelligence, The Ideas, and Being" from the Enneads (270 C.E.), about the various elements of Neo-Platonist cosmology: You've got The One, which is so awesome that it has literally no properties (so you can't even say it's awesome), then The Intelligence, which is the repository of the Forms (these first two together serve the same function as Aristotle's Unmoved Mover), then The Soul (the World Soul) that actually exists in time and creates things, then lots of little souls, individual Forms that are transmitted around via "the seminal reasons," and the grubby material world that nonetheless may have received enough Form to make us look up the chain of Being toward its divine elements. Read along with us, starting on p. 46 (PDF p. 48). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    59 mins

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