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James Madison Warns Against Violent Majority Factions & Demagogues (Federalist 10, Part 2)
Political Philosophy
03/14/25 • 22 min
Laurie continues her series of Federalist 10 and 51. This is the second video on Federalist 10, heading into how to handle the effects of a violent faction of the majority, and the threat of demagogues.
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Superseding Liberalism: Mouffe v. Communitarians (3-Audio)
Political Philosophy
05/24/20 • 23 min
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I Want to Be Liam Neeson (But I Should Resist). (Keynes 5)
Political Philosophy
08/29/21 • 23 min
I know that LIam Neeson is not a US citizen, but in his movies he mostly acts a though he is.
In this final video on the series examining the lessons of the Versailles Treaty I venture back into US politics and ask the question of personal responsibility. Should people respond in vengeance against actual wrongs? If they don’t want to, how do they resist this very (immediately) rational and biological urge? There is no doubt in my mind that we would all be better off if we did not act on the temptation for retribution, but easier said than done. The responsibility of Christians is particularly acute since their religion dictates no revenge. I challenge Christians to take their religion seriously and to imagine the strength it would take to walk away from disputes domestic and foreign.
Out of Babylon: https://www.amazon.com/Out-Babylon-Walter-Brueggemann/dp/1426710054
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Introduction to Edmund Burke and Reflections on the Revolution in France
Political Philosophy
10/31/21 • 16 min
Why read Edmund Burke? In this introduction I explain that his classical conservatism is more of a way of thinking than it is an ideology, and as such it is flexible. It is also practical, and we need more of that in a time in which too many waste their efforts in theorizing for its own sake (or worse) just attacking the “other side.”
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Virtue: Ancient, Christian, Bourgeois, Hyper-Bourgeois
Political Philosophy
01/16/22 • 17 min
Reading Hauerwas on virtue prompted me to do a video discussing different views of virtue that developed at different times in history but are still with us, either as ghosts or as confused and contradictory aspirations. I suggest a new view of virtue has taken over, hyper-bourgeois virtue.
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What Does the Incarnation Mean? Christmas 2020 (Audio)
Political Philosophy
12/24/20 • 5 min
This is a reading of my blog post “Christmas 2020: What Does the Incarnation Mean? Three Insights.” Instead of discussing whether the event happened or whether Jesus could really also be God, I ask “If we believe this, how does it change things?” The Incarnation puts us into an uncomfortable place, especially in this year when we can so clearly see how messed up the world has become, largely due to human actions. It puts us in an uncomfortable place because it asks way more of people than they have been willing to do so far.
The blog post: https://politicalphilosophy.video.blog/2020/12/24/christmas-2020-what-does-incarnation-mean/
Referenced: Jurgen Moltmann, The Crucified God: https://www.amazon.com/Crucified-God-Jurgen-Moltmann/dp/150640295X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1608825741&sr=1-1
Christopher Lasch on the Betrayal of Progressives (7-Audio)
Political Philosophy
08/15/20 • 19 min
In this final podcast in the series on Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, I deal with parts of Chapter 10, especially Lasch’s indictment of therapeutic bureaucratic authority and his explanation for the failure of US progressives to champion working people.
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Revolt Against “Customer Service”: MacIntyre on the Managerial Monster God (After Virtue 7 Audio)
Political Philosophy
11/11/19 • 21 min
In Chapters 8 and 9 of After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre argues that social science cannot approximate the physical sciences in predictability and that the bureaucratic manager, king of “customer service” technique is therefore full of, well, something other than expertise. It turns out that freedom entails a lack of predictability, that Machiavellian “Fortuna” is better than being oppressively managed and that complete efficiency produces the breakdown of efficiency in employee/constituent revolt. In Chapter 9, MacIntyre begins the journey away from Nietzsche, whom he considers at least an honest nihilist, and towards Aristotle.
Emptiness and Its Consequences: MacIntyre on “Emotivism” (Audio)
Political Philosophy
10/20/19 • 19 min
Explore Carl Jung’s The Undiscovered Self in Monthly Sessions!
Political Philosophy
12/29/24 • 15 min
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