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.
Episodes
135 episodes
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...
The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Shakespeare, Republicanism Monarchy and Globalisation Season 17 Episode 5
Aristotle's Politics is still the North Star of modern Politics because of its understanding of the nature of man and his flaws. Shakespeare inherited this understanding as well as Aristotelian pluralism which insisted that either one man...
The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Globalisation and the History of Philosophy Season 17 Episode 4
The military form of Globalisation began by Alexander had its causes and consequences related to the Golden Mean Principle which had not as yet manifested itself in the form of the nation-state. It was Empires such as the Roman Empire that colo...
The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Humanistic Liberalism and the Law Season 17 Episode 3
Humanistic liberalism as conceived by Paul Ricoeur has Kantian elements in spite of Ricoeurs preference for a more interpretative view of the ethical good. Ricoeur claims that criminal law is instrumentally constituted for the purpo...
The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Globalisation, Totalitarianism and the Ethical Imperative" Season 17 Episode 2
Globalisation forces Cassirer argues were influenced by Stoicism. Kants Enlightenment Critical Practical Philosophy was undermined by a theoretical view of action proposed by Hegel which eventually resulted in the Romantic movement and an attem...
The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Copilot, Athens, Sparta and "Know Thyself" Season 17 Episode 1
An argument with my AI servant Copilot over who the Ancient Greek Oracles supported in the Peloponnesian war. Thucydides suggested that the Oracle supported Sparta but this is unlikely given firstly, their view of the importance of "Know ...
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...