The Cunning of Geist

Greg Novak
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The Cunning of Geist

Gregory Novak explores philosophy, psychology, and science with an emphasis on Hegel. For seekers and scholars alike.

  1. 14 APR

    081 - The Fermi Paradox - Are We Alone in the Universe? Can Rationality Ever be Alone?

    It is estimated that over 2 billion stars in our own Milky Way galaxy have planets orbiting them that could sustain life. Are we on planet Earth a lottery winner, a one in 2 billion chance for establishing life and intelligent beings? The odds suggest life exists elsewhere. However, although it took billions of years to life on Earth to evolve to where we are today, there are stars are much older that our own sun. Several billion years older in fact. Why no...

    30 min

  2. 25 FEB

    080 - Is There a God? - Creation, Becoming, and the Fate of the Universe

    "Creation ex nihlilo (creation out of nothing) or "Ex nihilo nihil fit" (from nothing comes from nothing)?The notion of a creator God is fundamental to Western religions. But is it true? The opening of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, studied so long and hard by the Kabbalists suggests so, and the Big Bang theory gave reason for many to believe the cosmological argument for God (everything that began to exist has a cause). But the newest scientific data suggests something preceded the...

    23 min

  3. 28 JAN

    079 - Using Hegel's Triad as a Model for Success

    Hegel's "triad" of Being, Nothing, and Becoming are central to his ontology. And it can also be used as a framework for personal achievement. This episode explains how. The Being/Nothing/Becoming dialectic comes first in Hegel's Science of Logic, but it also presents the pattern for his overall project of Mind (Idea), Nature, and Spirit (Geist). And it is just this framework that one must use in pushing to new heights of success in life. The basic approach i...

    22 min

  4. 28/12/2023

    078 - Jung's Synchronicity: Demonstrating the Mental/Physical Unity of the Cosmos

    Hegel famously said in his Phenomenology of Spirit, "Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not as Substance, but equally as Subject." (Miiler trans., ¶17). That the true - truth - is equally substance and subject. He makes this explicitly clear in the following statement, “What seems to take place outside it, to be an activity directed against it, is its own doing, its own activity; and substance shows that it is in reality subject” (Ibid, ¶37).Meaningful coi...

    25 min

  5. 19/11/2023

    077 - The Journey Not the Destination: The Case for Universal Purposeful Evolution

    Does Spirit evolve? How about God?And what exactly does the term panentheism mean?This episode takes a deep dive into process philosophy, process theology, and the evolutionary nature of "becoming." The pioneer work of Charles Hartshorne, Alfred North Whitehead, Charles Sanders Peirce, and of course Hegel, all in a way process philosophers, is addressed. Support the show

    20 min

  6. 22/10/2023

    076 - Language Games: Wittgenstein, Hegel, and the Split in Philosophy

    Wittgenstein is often mention as the most influential philosopher of the 20th century. His focus on the meaning of words became an integral part of the so-called "Analytic" branch of the discipline. The later Wittgenstein contended that words are but tools, defined by their use within the context of the “language game” of the arena they are used, which is societally based and can evolve. One of these sandboxes is philosophy, as well as science and religion. And t...

    22 min

  7. 23/09/2023

    075 - A Matter of Life & Death: How Philosophy Underpins Politics, Law, Science, and Morality.

    Is philosophy just mental masturbation? Nothing but air?Many today see no value in philosophy because there seems to be little agreement among philosophers on anything, and much of what they say seems to have little or no impact on one's life, or society in general. Is this the case?An examination of the major pillars upon which society stands - political systems, the law, science, and its moral base - shows just the opposite. Holding each of these institutions up is a philo...

    33 min

  8. 27/08/2023

    074 - Is the Unconscious Mind Real or Fantasy? - B.F. Skinner, Freud, & Hegel

    The behaviorism of B.F. Skinner took the psychology world by storm. His 1971 book "Beyond Freedom and Dignity" was hailed as the most important psychological publication of the 20th century. And this was from someone who denied mind and free will. It was an attempt to dignify psychology as a hard science, based on experiments and what can be observed, rather than what people think or feel, a direct contradiction to the root meaning of word psychology - "a study of mind." ...

    23 min
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Gregory Novak explores philosophy, psychology, and science with an emphasis on Hegel. For seekers and scholars alike.

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  • Creator
    Greg Novak
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    81
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    © 2024 The Cunning of Geist
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