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Mar 12, 2023 • 1h 7min
Mettalia Tanjaya on Why Theology Matters | RSam Pod #19
Mettalia Tanjaya is an artist and philosopher. She studied for a Bachelor of Animation and Interactive Media in the past year, followed by a Diploma in Theological Studies for a year. She is now doing her Master of Teaching (Early Childhood and Primary). The working title for her dissertation is “Why Theology Matters”, where she will discuss the components of Theological studies and analyse how it is relevant to modern philosophy and science. I discuss Christianity, morality and Kant with her.
Mettalia's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@misguided_pilgrim
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Mar 5, 2023 • 1h 26min
Who is Christ to you? (Twitter Space with Euwyn Goh)
Euwyn and I discuss Christ, faith, existentialism and Christian phenomenology. Please consider checking out his Substack: https://memoirworthwriting.substack.com/
Euwyn's Twitter: https://twitter.com/euwyngoh
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Feb 20, 2023 • 2h 2min
Is Jordan Peterson a Fascist? (Vaush and PF Jung's Debate Follow-Up) | RSam Pod #18
My conversation with Paul (PF Jung) on his follow-up thoughts after his Vaush debate. And we discuss if Jordan Peterson is a fascist―viewing Peterson through Umberto Eco's and Hannah Arendt's social theories.
Paul's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PFJung
Paul's debate with Vaush: https://youtu.be/hHn9WMSQyyk
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{Reference Links}
https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-origins-of-totalitarianism-9780241316757
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Feb 19, 2023 • 21min
Masculinity and Nothingness
Recently the topic of masculinity has been discussed contentiously in our culture with the rise of controversial figures like Andrew Tate.
Original piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/masculinity-and-nothingness
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Feb 19, 2023 • 1h 26min
Slavoj Žižek - Only a Suffering God Can Save Us
My reading of both sections 1: Hegel and 2: Kierkegaard of Slavoj Žižek's Only a Suffering God Can Save Us: https://www.lacan.com/zizshadowplay.html
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The Man Comes Around · Johnny Cash: https://youtu.be/tu5EBMgf4D8
℗ 2003 Paramount Pictures, under exclusive license to Varese Sarabande Records.
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Dec 29, 2022 • 2h 9min
Jacob Bell on Heidegger, Phenomenology and Structures of Meaning | IR #17
Jacob Bell is a philosopher and writer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from American Public University and is doing his Master of Research in Philosophy at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
The working title for his dissertation is “A Phenomenological Analysis of the Structures of Meaningfulness.” Jacob’s primary academic interests include phenomenology & existentialism, which we discuss in this episode.
Connect with Jacob at https://twitter.com/jacoba_bell or https://www.jacobabell.com/
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{Reference Links}
https://epochemagazine.org/44/the-structure-of-meaning-in-experience-rediscovering-that-which-has-been-lost/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_Time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_of_Perception
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/
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Dec 12, 2022 • 13min
Create Through Love (Guiding Axiom 7/7) | IR #16
“I was always disgusted with this notion of “I love the world” universal love. I don’t like the world. I don’t know how… Basically, I’m somewhere in between “I hate the world” or “I’m indifferent towards it.” But the whole of reality, it’s just it. It’s stupid. It is out there. I don’t care about it. Love, for me, is an extremely violent act. Love is not “I love you all.” Love means I pick out something, and it’s, again, this structure of imbalance. Even if this something is just a small detail… a fragile individual person… I say “I love you more than anything else.” In this quite formal sense, love is evil.” ― Slavoj Žižek
Orginal piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/write-through-love
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Nov 19, 2022 • 13min
Embody Humility Without Vanity (Guiding Axiom 6/7) | IR #15
“Our honesty, we free spirits—let us be careful lest it become our vanity, our ornament and ostentation, our limitation, our stupidity! Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; ‘stupid to the point of sanctity,’ they say in Russia,—let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!” ― Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil, A. 227)
Original piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/embody-humility-without-vanity
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Nov 5, 2022 • 19min
Never Fall In Love With Suffering (Guiding Axiom 5/7) | IR #14
“My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
Orginal piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/never-fall-in-love-with-suffering
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Nov 5, 2022 • 27min
On Writing Without Lies, Machinations And Bullshit (Guiding Axiom 4/7) | IR #13
“Christianity protests against every form of objectivity; it desires that the subject should be infinitely concerned about himself. It is with subjectivity that Christianity is concerned, and it is only in subjectivity that its truth exists, if it exists at all. Objectively, Christianity has absolutely no existence. If the truth happens to be only in a single subject it exists in him alone; and there is greater Christian joy in heaven over this one individual than over universal history or the system.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
Orginal piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/on-writing-without-lies-machinations
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{Reference Links}
https://politikon.iapss.org/index.php/politikon/article/view/11
https://cliff-salad-4e8.notion.site/Questions-Discussion-Topics-For-PF-Jung-c4a02021b2ff45e49af6d7c483f80411
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