Shows
A Discourse About NothingEpisode 9: The Culture War is a LiePierce and Matt try to make sense of the current state of the culture war.
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2020-07-311h 59
A Discourse About NothingEpisode 8: How Coronavirus Made Me Realize I’m a Jerk (and that I need a new moral paradigm)https://notdiscourse.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/epsiode-8_-how-coronavirus-made-me-realize-im-a-jerk-and-need-a-new-paradigm.mp3
Pierce is back to scold you! Danny is on for the first time! I haven’t been outside in a month!
Show-notes
Overall Point: Our way of seeing the world and considering our place in it is selfish, naive and disconnected from reality.
Details of how we see the world:
(1) My assuming that I have so many options on what I can do with my life is naive and selfish, in that it presumes that I, unlike everyone else in history, can just go do...
2020-04-1249 min
A Discourse About NothingEpisode 7.5: A Response to Very Bad Wizards on Ecclesiasteshttps://notdiscourse.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ep-7.5-response-to-very-bad-wizards.mp3
In this mini-episode, Pierce solves a murder, and responds to some other dudes on their angsty interpretation of Ecclesiastes.
(Picture: Albrecht Durer’s “Knight, Death and the Devil.”)
Very Bad Wizards (Podcast)
2019-03-2122 min
A Discourse About NothingEpisode 7: The Meaning of Life and Intrinsic Valuehttps://notdiscourse.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/episode-7-meaning-and-intrinsic-value.mp3
Pull up a chair, and shut your mouth while Pierce once again lectures you about morality, religion and Jordan Peterson. Listener BEWARE!
(Picture: Young William James looking pretty sick.)
Sources:
Wolf, Susan. “Meaningfulness: A Third Dimension of the Good Life”
Scruton, Roger. “Of Beauty and Consolation.”
Peterson, Goldstein and Craig on the Meaning of Life
Peterson on Purpose (Why do people put crap music over these clips?)
Marks, Pierce. “Metaethics and Absurd Angst.”
Swinburne, Richard. “Si...
2019-02-2745 min
A Discourse About NothingEpisode 6: Thoughts on Jordan Petersonhttps://notdiscourse.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/episode-6-thoughts-on-jordan-peterson.mp3
Pierce and Matt pull themselves up by their bootstraps, get high and tight fades, and talk about the internet’s favorite frog, Jordan Peterson.
Sources:
Cathy Newman Interview
Jordan Peterson on the “Left Wingers Going Too Far”
Peterson and Scruton on the Transcendent
Peterson, Goldstein and Craig on the Meaning of Life
2019-02-111h 08
A Discourse About NothingEpisode 5: Serenity and SerenityPierce and Matt analyze the character, Malcolm Reynolds, from Firefly and Serenity.
https://notdiscourse.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/episode-5-final.mp3
2018-11-2851 min
A Discourse About NothingEpisode 4: The Witcher Episode Feedbackhttps://notdiscourse.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/episode-4.mp3
Pierce goes solo this week to answer some feedback we received in our previous two-part episode.
2018-10-1220 min
A Discourse About NothingEpisode 3: The Witcher 3, Consolation and Religion (Part 2)https://notdiscourse.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/episode-3.mp3
Pierce breaks down how the video game, The Witcher 3, radically influenced his philosophical study and introduces Matt to meta-ethics. Part 2 of 2.
2018-10-0526 min
A Discourse About NothingEpisode 2: The Witcher 3, Consolation and Religion (Part 1)https://notdiscourse.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/episode-2-complete.mp3
Pierce breaks down how the video game, The Witcher 3, radically influenced his philosophical study and introduces Matt to meta-ethics. Part 1 of 2.
2018-09-2834 min