Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

A Conversation with David Valerio

Dec 22, 2022

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Is Complexity Complexity a New Discipline?

02:40

The History of Philology

02:26

Is Socrates a Wrong Turn?

04:00

Introduction

2min

I've Got a Project I'm Working on Now, You Said?

2min

The Great Chain of Being

3min

Is There a Relationship Between Creation and Nature?

3min

Is There a Goal of Nature?

2min

Is God Nature, or Is It Nature?

1min

Spinoza, Spinoza's Ethics

2min

The History of Philology

2min

The Shattering of Philology Into Other Disciplines

3min

10.

I'm Not a Humanist, I'M a Natural Philosopher, or All These Things

2min

11.

I Love Tolstoy

2min

12.

The Last Tolstoy Book You've Read?

2min

13.

The Death of Ivan Dileitch Is a Little Longer

3min

14.

Christian Fathers - Is There a Theosis?

2min

15.

Theosis

5min

16.

The Bodhisattva Idea

2min

17.

Are You Trying to Avoid Suffering?

2min

18.

The Ascetic Ideal of the Desert Fathers

2min

19.

Is There a Difference Between Eastern and Western Christianity?

1min

20.

Is There a Mystical Tradition in the East?

2min

21.

Is Byzantium the Center of Our Law?

2min

22.

The Subversion of Christianity by Jacques Salul

3min

23.

How God Becomes Real

2min

24.

Is There a Difference Between Science and Religion?

2min

25.

Is It Time to Read Primary Sources?

2min

26.

I Don't Want to Read a History, but I Want To

2min

27.

Is That More Thucydides?

2min

28.

Principles of Geology

2min

29.

Is Geology a Paradigmatic Science?

2min

30.

Isn't John McPhee a Writer?

2min

31.

Have You Seen Wings of Desire?

2min

32.

What Is the Chimbarazzo?

2min

33.

The Invention of Nature by John Trbroxo

2min

34.

The Last Man Who Knew Everything

2min

35.

The Last Man Who Knew Everything

2min

36.

Is There a Difference Between Latin and French?

2min

37.

Is Complexity Complexity a New Discipline?

3min

38.

Is Socrates a Wrong Turn?

4min

39.

What's So Interesting About Shaztov?

3min

40.

Is Constantine David a Christian?

2min

41.

I Think That There's a Role for Critical People Being Important in History in Some Way or Another

3min

42.

The Theological Synthesis Is Not Just Positive Theology

2min

43.

Is That What Thinking Is?

2min

44.

The Great Communicator Is the Great Writer

3min

45.

Is Darwin a True Originator of the Ideas?

3min

46.

Is There a Difference Between Darwin and Mandelbrot?

2min

47.

Einstein's Geometry and Experience From 1921

2min

48.

How to Find Out Who Is the Most Widely Unread of the People That People Talk About

2min

49.

Is It Relevant or Is It Not Relevant?

2min

50.

Then You Know What Kun Says About Conceptual Tools

2min

51.

Thematic Podcasts

3min

David and I spoke on Twitter Spaces in July 2022. We discussed Eastern Catholic theology and its parallels with Buddhism. We discuss the origin of the word physis (from which "physics"), as well as the history of geology and anthropology, the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity, catastrophism vs uniformitarianism, and other topics in complexity.

Also mentioned: Darwin, Lyell, Spinoza, Geertz, Tolstoy, Orwell, Shakespeare, Tanya Luhrmann, David Graeber, Jacques Elull, Viktor Shklovsky, Draper & White, Thomas Kuhn, John McPhee, Andrea Wulf, Daniel Kehlmann, William Whewell, and Lev Shestov 😅

Learn more about David here.

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