Exiting The Cave Greg Gauthier
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Philosophy essays, debates, discussions, and other explorations.
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CHANNEL ANNOUNCEMENT: Exiting The Cave Is Moving
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Short Reads: The Consolation of Philosophy, Book 4, Chapter 3 - What Good and Evil Deserve
Lady Philosophy explains how the righteous never lack their reward, nor the wicked their punishment. We take a trip with Odysseus to the Island of the Winds, and find ourselves transformed into swine, by Cerce.
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Short Reads: The Consolation of Philosophy, Book 4, Chapter 2 - The Evil Are Powerless
In today's episode, Lady Philosophy lays out for us, the first of four arguments attempting to defang the problem of evil, and in the process, we discover that evil people simply don't exist!
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Short Reads: The Consolation of Philosophy, Book 4, Chapter 1 - The Problem of Evil Restated
The mystery of the seeming moral confusion. Philosophy engages to make this plain, and to fulfill her former promise to the full. Boethius takes on The Gorgias. Let's see what he comes up with!
Librivox version of The Gorgias can be found here.
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Short Reads: Boethius Sidebar - Who Is Lady Philosophy?
This week, we take a momentary pause from the text, to ponder the origins of Lady Philosophy. What you will discover in this podcast, is a nexus of faith, reason, religion, and philosophy, in the books of Proverbs and Wisdom, and a powerful symbol who's meaning goes far beyond the superficial anthropomorphism of philosophy in human form.
I couldn't think of a good way to work in the famous passage from Acts 17, but that's hovering in the background of this, as well...
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Short Reads: The Consolation of Philosophy, Book 3, Chapter 12
Boethius and Lady philosophy confront the problem of evil, and Boethius laments the slipping of the vision of the true good just out of his sight.
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