Cool to see all the guys, they’ve been disembodied voices to me for a decade and now they snap immediately into real faces and particular mannerisms!

Thank you for helping breakdown this book, the concepts are hard to grasp

Loving life regardless of logic. Ok.

Love the live shows. I thought of J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey, where Zooey tells Franny that she doesn't even understand the Jesus Prayer, that the kingdom of heaven is carried within each of us. We all have the ability to become Christ like through small acts of love, and we're all responsible for discovering the God within us. So in a way that 800 pound gorilla is there, but feed it love and it will be your friend. I haven't read any Russian Lit. but I do agree that the religious existentialist is as Dostoevsky says, unimpeachable. Excited to take the plunge, thanks again.

You guys should do an episode of Berzerk manga. It’s very philosophically rich.

The spiritual nature of loving all things must have been learned by the 20 year-old Dostoevsky in the gulag. And learned through his sufferings there.

I get the Strong impression that Dovskyetsky...wants us to see aspects of human nature in ourselves and to nurture more compassion or rise above it in constructive way..and ofcourse some aspects we just live with it....the entertainment in his production's...are more extreme fantasy's or projections which may draw us in...as much of course what sells...but in his case is after all "substitive"...

What if they did an episode where they got like an anthology on African philosophy and did a few essays from that. Maybe they could have Lawrence Ware on, or someone else. I got Paragon Issues in Philosophy's "African Philosophy: The Essential Readings". One controversial essay to cover would be "African Philosophy: Myth and Reality" by the African phenomenologist and "professional philosopher" Paulin J. Hountondji who argues that African philosophy is a recent phenomenon, and that older ideas from Africa ("ethnophilosophy"), or Henri Odera Oruka's method of "African Sagacity" (where Oruka goes into villages and interviews wise men (maybe just men), and document the ones that seem philosophical (dialectical, really)), are not actually philosophy at all. There is the implication that African philosophers should borrow western ideas, and maybe not African ones. It might be worth it.

@ThePartiallyExaminedLife

11 ай бұрын

There's a good discussion of this ethno vs. "real" philosophy on Peter Adamson's History of Philosophy w/o Any Gaps. I'd like us to get to this at some point, for sure. -ML

Nevertheless there are direct characteristics...that he himself..knew were contact types in his life such as students or "relations "and other's...is obvious...as ofcourse this breaths more life into it yet ...not condescending...he also pplaces himself in some instances..to explain how he feels alienated ..himself and whats stereotypes

I have yet to find a discussion on the Grand Inquisitor that is free of opinion and not dictated by perspective. Probably not possible.

Turgenev: "D. is the most evil Christian I have ever met in my life."

@ElonMuskrat-my8jy

4 ай бұрын

Not an argument.