Delphic Podcast by Michael R D James
A series of episodes comparing and contrasting Campbells view of the universality and necessity of myth with the Philosophical and Metaphysical accounts of the Ancient Greek, Enlightenment, and Modern Hylomorphic and Critical Philosophy.
Episodes
125 episodes
The Outer Reaches of Inner Space: Critique of Campbells view of Myth: The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Season 16 Ep 11
History, for Heidegger is related to Time which can be regarded as both actual and potential. The form of our Being-in-the world determines the way in which we express our existence in the realm of the temporal. Certain events are world-histori...
The Outer Reaches of Inner Space: Critique of Campbells view of Myth: The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Season 16 Ep 10
Heideggers account of the Being of our Human form of "Being-in-the-world", speaks of how entities are encountered in this world. Whilst engaged in our tasks these entities are not accessed via a form of observation that is interroga...
The Outer Reaches of Inner Space: Critique of Campbells view of Myth: The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Season 16 Ep 9
Genetics is a science often appealed to as the cause of many phenomena which have more complex histories. In the transition of sea-life into marshland life and finally into land animals the major initial causes are environmental but the p...
The Outer Reaches of Inner Space: Critique of Campbells view of Myth: The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Season 16 Ep 8
The form of finality for human forms of psuché need to be projected upon them by a mind that is to some extent predetermined by its biological/psychological and higher mental functions. This mind-space is capable of embracing actualities via it...
The Outer Reaches of Inner Space: Critique of Campbells view of Myth: The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Season 16 Ep 7
The form of finality of an object refers to the way in which the object relates to the powers of the mind involved in the experience of the object. Occidental Mythology and Oriental Mythology have very different relations to Philosophy. O...
The Outer Reaches of Inner Space: Critique of Campbells view of Myth: The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Season 16 Ep 6
The pleasure at the form of the Good is the highest of all forms of pleasure and it occurs especially in relation to experiences of the sublime where the mind is confronted with a challenge to the powers of its sensibility and responds to...
The Outer Reaches of Inner Space: Critique of Campbells view of Myth: The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Season 16 Ep 5
Philosophy is concerned with the totality of the acts of man including his civilisation-building and culture-creation activities. Its form of perspicuous representation, however, is not descriptive and contained in narratives. Rather its perspi...
The Outer Reaches of Inner Space: Critique of Campbells view of Myth: The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Season 16 Ep 4
History, Tragedy and Rhetoric are all Ancient Greek heritages whose nature has been changed during modern times. Living in the Age of Discontentment as we do is partly a consequence of the loss of the above "forms of life" as well the religious...
The Outer Reaches of Inner Space: Critique of Campbells view of Myth: The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Season 16 Ep 3
Kants Prolegomena contains the key to outlining the scope and limitations of the domain of metaphysical Discourse----a matter of vital concern for both Mythology and Religion. Kant, as we know was very concerned to define the scope and limitati...
The Outer Reaches of Inner Space: Critique of Campbells view of Myth: The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Season 16 Ep 2
The existence of God is only represented with considerable difficulty by theoretical reason which falsely claims that Gods nonexistence is a contradiction. Transcendental analogy allows us to theoretically think at least one attribute of God na...
The Outer Reaches of Inner Space: Critique of Campbells view of Myth: The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Season 16 Ep 1
Mythology emphasises one mental power in a matrix of emotion rather than the repertoire of mental powers Philosophy claims is necessary to support complex narratives relating to the Origin of the Universe and Life. Consciousness and Langu...
"Shakespeares Philosophical Theatre: Plays and Poetry for all Seasons" Summary of Chapter 5 featured in "The Delphic Podcasts" by Michael R D James: Season 15 Episode 6
Rhetoric and Psychology lost their characters at the end of the 1800's and this was due to a loss of commitment to ancient institutions such as the Church and a waning of commitment to the Rationality of the Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Phil...
"Shakespeares Philosophical Theatre: Plays and Poetry for all Seasons" Summary of Chapter 4 featured in "The Delphic Podcasts" by Michael R D James: Season 15 Episode 5
The Symbolism of confessional language is to be compared with the symbolism of many of Shakespeares soliloquys where transcendental intentions reach back to the origin of all things and forward to a future end or telos of things. Freuds religio...
"Shakespeares Philosophical Theatre: Plays and Poetry for all Seasons" Summary of Chapter 3 featured in "The Delphic Podcasts" by Michael R D James: Season 15 Episode 4
T S Eliot did not believe Shakespeares work to be Philosophical because of his view that Religion and Philosophy shared an intimate relation which the Ancient Greeks did not believe was the case. The Ancient Greek Gods praised what is jus...
"Shakespeares Philosophical Theatre: Plays and Poetry for All Seasons" (Publisher Austin Macaulay) Summary of Chapter 2 featured in "The Delphic Podcasts" by Michael R D James Season 15 Episode 3)
The Role of History in Shakespeare has not been examined sufficiently, perhaps because of the ambiguity of various remarks Aristotle made in his work on the "Poetics". Weil points out that History like many other disciplines in various ca...
"Shakespeares Philosophical Theatre: Plays and Poetry for All Seasons" (Publisher Austin Macaulay) Summary of Chapter 1 featured in "The Delphic Podcasts" by Michael R D James Season 15 Episode 2
Aesthetic ideas are used by Shakespeare to "show" the reach of the powers of the imagination, understanding and Reason. We are taken on a hypnotic cosmopolitan journey into the worlds of Emperors, Kings, Queens, Princes, soldiers, lawyers, merc...
CoPilot Review of "The Metaphysics of Psuché and Psychoanalysis" by Michael R D James Featured in The Delphic Podcasts
Coplot Review of "The Metaphysics of Psuché and Psychoanalysis: An Aristotelian and Kantian Critique" by Michael R D James
Opera AI Review of "The Metaphysics and Logos of Psuché and Psychoanalysis" by Michael R D James Featured in the Delphic Podcasts
Opera AI Review of "The Metaphysics and Logos of Psuché and Psychoanalysis: An Aristotelian and Kantian Critique" by Michael R D James
"Shakespeares Philosophical Theatre: Plays and poetry for all Seasons" (Publisher Austin Macaulay) Summary of Introduction featured in The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James: Season 15 Episode 1
Summary of the Introduction to "Shakespeares Philosophical Theatre" published by Austin Macaulay in May 2026
The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Review of Campbells "Myths to Live By" Season 14 Episode 14
Noos is the part of mind which is a first principle of all our mental and psychological powers and which Aristotle believed was a divine part of the human mind which was confined to thinking about something. Divine thinking on the other hand wa...
The Delphic Podcasts :Opera AI Review of Shakespeares Philosophical Theatre by Michael R D James Austin Macaulay 22nd May 2026 Season 14 Episode 13
Review based on an Introductory essay at the beginning of the work
The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Review of Campbells "Myths to Live By" Season 14 Episode 12
"Dust in the air suspended marks the place where a story ended"( T S Eliot Four Quartets). The Astronauts walked on the dust of the moon after the moon was despiritualised and the dust was not the dust of lost souls but remnan...
The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Review of Shakespeares Philosophical Theatre: Poetry and Plays for all Seasons
Shakespeare is a Philosophical Poet because his works do not just touch on Philosophical themes but rather embodies the ideas of Aristotelian and Kantian Aesthetics, Ethics, and Philosophical Psychology. His poetic intuitions are clearly ...
The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Review of Campbells "Myths to Live By" Season 14 Episode 10
Schizophrenia takes many forms and all forms are designated by psychiatric medicine as psychotic conditions. Paranoid Schizophrenia is concerned with the defence mechanisms of splitting, projection and denial (that one is ill, for example...
The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Review of Campbells "Myths to Live By" Season 14 Episode 9
War and Peace Mythologies are related to Philosophy in various complex ways but insofar as Ancient Greece originated with Socratic reflections on the Justice and its relation to the Holy, the Mythologies of Peace are more closely related to Anc...