

RSam Podcast
Rahul Samaranayake
Philosophy & Theory | AI & CogSci
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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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Nov 5, 2022 • 13min
Never Mistake Cynicism For Wisdom (Guiding Axiom 3/7) | IR #12
“But the new rebel is a Sceptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it. [...] By rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything.” ― G. K. Chesterton
Orginal piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/never-mistake-cynicism-for-wisdom
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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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Sep 21, 2022 • 11min
Only God Can Patronise (Guiding Axiom 2/7) | IR #11
“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Original piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/only-god-can-patronise
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https://politikon.iapss.org/index.php/politikon/article/view/11
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Jul 7, 2022 • 20min
On Ideology & Unhappiness (Guiding Axiom 1/7) | IR #10
“Like love, ideology is blind, even if people caught up in it are not.” ― Slavoj Žižek
Original piece: https://theunhappyman.substack.com/p/the-unhappy-man?r=id6n6&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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https://politikon.iapss.org/index.php/politikon/article/view/11
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Jun 20, 2022 • 1h 47min
PF Jung On Symbols, Pragmatism & What If “Truth” Is Detrimental To Being Human | IR #9
Paul (PF Jung: https://www.youtube.com/c/PFJung) is a YouTuber that discusses the ideas of Jordan Peterson & Carl Jung. I found him to be an individual who’s genuinely oriented towards the good, true and beautiful, whatever that means or entails. In this episode, we delve into many topics we’ve both been trying to comprehend intellectually and, perhaps more importantly, existentially.
Paul’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/pf_jung
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https://politikon.iapss.org/index.php/politikon/article/view/11
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Jun 14, 2022 • 1h 26min
The Best Criticism Of Jordan Peterson I've Read | IR #8
“If all enigmas are resolved, the stars go out. If everything secret is returned to the visible […], if all illusion is returned to transparence then heaven become indifferent to the earth.” — Jean Baudrillard
“What is the purpose, and, worse still, what is the origin of all science? What? Is scientific method perhaps no more than fear of and flight from pessimism? A subtle defence against - truth? Or, to put it in moral terms, is it something like cowardice and insincerity? To put it immorally, is it a form of cunning? O, Socrates, Socrates, was that perhaps your secret? O, mysterious ironist, was this perhaps your - irony?” — Friedrich Nietzsche
Complete article - Jordan Peterson and the (F)law of ‘Scientific Inquiry’: https://politikon.iapss.org/index.php/politikon/article/view/11
David’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheoryPhilosophy
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May 27, 2022 • 1h 6min
Paul Tillich’s The Courage to Be | IR #7
"The courage to take the anxiety of meaninglessness upon oneself is the boundary line up to which the courage to be can go. Beyond it is mere non-being. Within it all forms of courage are re-established in the power of the God above the God of theism. The courage to be is rooted in the God' who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt." — Paul Tillich
My disquisition on the foremost Existentialist Theologians of the 20th Century, Paul Tillich's The Courage to Be.
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Commentaries & book reviews:
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-the-courage-to-be-tillich/#gsc.tab=0
https://people.bu.edu/wwildman/tillich/resources/review_tillich-paul_couragetobe.htm
https://youtu.be/srC6ZsH4nwg
https://youtu.be/Z3ZZzudEXMU
Papers on Tillich and Heidegger:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1509278
https://open.bu.edu/handle/2144/8468
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May 4, 2022 • 58min
Dostoevsky's Crime And Punishment, And Breaking Bad's Unmasking Of Utilitarianism | IR #6
What can Breaking Bad and Crime and Punishment tell us about utilitarianism?
“I for instance consider that a single misdeed is permissible if the principal aim is right, a solitary wrongdoing and hundreds of good deeds!”
“The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects he will be caught in a simple thing.” — Raskolnikov
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{Reference Links}
https://philosophyforchange.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/meaning-is-use-wittgenstein-on-the-limits-of-language/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_and_Punishment#cite_note-33
https://www.ukessays.com/essays/religion/paul-tillich-dynamics-faith-summary-7239.php
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