Delphic Podcast by Michael R D James
A series of episodes on different themes of Aristotelian, Kantian, Freudian and Wittgensteinian Philosophical Psychology, including comparing and contrasting Campbells view of the universality and necessity of myth with the Transcendental and Metaphysical accounts of the Ancient Greek, Enlightenment, and Modern Hylomorphic and Critical Philosophy.
Delphic Podcast by Michael R D James
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The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, "Trump and the Open Society and its Enemies" Season 17 Episode 10
Ancient Athens was a form of direct democracy probably because of its size. The BBC in a program about direct Democracies make the claim that the USA may be an example of this form of rule and that a tyrant was certain to emerge from a state of...
The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Humanism Arendt and Totalitarianism" Season 17 Episode 9
Tyranny for Plato and Aristotle was a pathological form of monarchy in which one tyrant with unnecessary and unlawful desires leads a whole community to ruin and destruction. Totalitarianism Arendt argues is a different phenomenon because...
The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Cosmopolitanism, Globalisation, Human Rights and Immigration Season 17 Episode 8
Kant argues that there is a fundamental human right to roam the world and this fact requires from everyone the response of hospitality: a response based on the categorical imperative which demands that every human treats every other human as an...
The Delphic Podcats by Michael R D James, Political Identity and the Pathological Nation-State Season 17 Episode 7
There is a logical relation Plato and Aristotle argued between personal identity and political identity which, if true, would legitimise the use of psychoanalytical theory in any political diagnosis. Freud must have recognised Germany as a Path...
the Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Kissinger and the new world order versus Kant, the Old World order and Globalisation Season 17 episode 6
Kissinger believes in a strong America well into the 21st century and emerging powers of equal rank which include Europe. Europe was an attempt to integrate a number of different West European Nations and the Soviet Union attempted to unify a n...