Sacred Philosophy

Heidegger: Technology and Art

Textual analysis of two essays: The Question Concerning Technology + The Origin of the Work of Art

Marx: The Plea of the Worker

From Das Capital

Plato’s Timaeus and Creation and Destruction: Cataclysms

Also I connect this with Thomas Chan’s book about cataclysms.

Plato’s Afterlife, Ideas of Reincarnation, and Near-Death Experience

From the final sections of Plato’s Republic

Whitehead’s Theology

From Process and Reality, Part V

Edith Stein: Theology

I read quotes and explain Stein’s theological works.

Byung Chul Han: How Globalization De-Sites Us

Ch. 4: Rituals of Closures

What is Postmodernism?

Just a quick summary of postmod vs. mod

Byung Chul Han: How Authenticity is not a Virtue

Chapter 2 in The Disappearance of Rituals

Heidegger: Part 2, Chapter 3: On keeping open for possibility.

I will continue Chapter 3 in the next lecture.

The final pages of Chapter 1: Byung-Chul Han

Pp.11-15 Disappearance of Rituals.

Disappearance of Rituals, part 2

Pp. 5-11

Byung Chul Han: The Disappearance of Rituals, part 1

I read through and comment on the first few pages of the book. Pp. 1-5

Heidegger: Guilt, the Conscience and Being Resolute

Chapter Two of Part Two

Nietzsche, The Gay Science, sec. 344

Just cold thoughts on one of the sections I read this morning.

Sanskrit Language and Chanting

Brief introduction to the language and examples of chants learned from Nicolai Bachman: Sanskritsounds.com

Ep. 13: Tao te Ching, verses 1-14

The Tao te Ching is Chinese wisdom from 500 BCE. Listen for a calming meditation.

Ep. 12: The Independent Study, or Not Going the Traditional College Route

This is a more concise, focused lecture on the what, why, and how of Independent Studies vs. the traditional college experience. I hope you enjoy.

Ep. 11: Ethics of Ambiguity, Part I

Join me as I introduce and walk through Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity, Part I.

Ep. 10: Nietzsche + Guest Niranjan

Today we discuss the works and idea of Nietzsche, including 1. Politics 2. Individual vs. Collective 3. Will to Power/Self-Help and much more.

Ep. 9: Upanishads, Isha

1. Reading with commentary 2. Break 3. Reading alone

Episode 8: Nietzsche, Intro

1. The Eternal Return 2. Critique of Religion 3. Problem of Nihilism 4. Books of Nietzsche’s and Timeline 5. How to Read Nietzsche

Episode 7: Existentialism - Camus, Sartre, Beauvoir + Guest Ruel M.

Join us as we sit down with Ph.D. in Philosophy Graduate Student Ruel M. from the University of Hawaii discusses life in academia and his thoughts on existentialism, our species, and the future of language and literature.

Episode 6: Jean Wahl’s A Short History of Existentialism (1949)

1. Summary of the book 2. Historicity of the book 3. Wahl’s definition of existentialism 4. A reading of the first page.

Episode 5: Dystopian Literature

1. 1984 2. Brave New World

Episode 4: Heidegger Being and Time

1. Characteristics of Dasein 2. What do we bring to our investigation? 3. Authenticity vs. Inauthenticity 4. Primordiality and potentiality

Episode 3: Hegel and Desire

1. Desire as the birth of self-consciousness. 2. The two selves. 3. Discipline as a path to higher consciousness. Reviewing: Hegel’s Philosophy of Mind

Episode 2: Why Philosophy?

1. My religious studies background. 2. Philosophy asks all the important questions and points us in the direction of answers. 3. Reading multiple books at the same time! 4. Classes starting soon.

Episode 1: How to Start an Independent Study in Philosophy

1. What is an independent study? 2. Why an independent study? 3. Tips on how to start an independent study.

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