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Pill Pod 124 - The Eyes of Reason I (Exclusive) (Patreon)

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2023-05-26 14:00:06
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Mentioned a few episodes back that I (Pills) wrote a genealogy of the intelligible/visible metaphor that, I argue, has animated Western philosophy since Socrates. I wrote this over 10 years ago in my Master's, but I think it holds up well enough and is at least interesting to think about. We'll be looking to the comments as to whether we keep going!

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Henry Martyn

Loved this ep. Would love to see this become more of a series

James Moore

Enjoyed this. Reminds me of that little back and forth in the hauntology video

l. mark harris

I say keep going. By the next segment, I'll have read the paper.

Xochitl Hood

this is so cool I also noticed the metaphor of light used frequently when I took a rhetoric class on reason like 2 years ago, I used Descartes and bacon.

anacidcommie

Now that you've started it, you have to finish it. If the podcast keeps focusing on this and the vids on Baudrillard, I have nothing to complain about nor any reason to suggest an alternative. Super interesting, and yeah, please let Erik elaborate a little more! I won't pretend to understand Peircian semiotics, but there's no such thing as too much semiotics, so bring it.

Nathan Blazina

I'm so glad you decided to cover this

ageOfBumFires

21:45 Eric "Ya know, one of the things that has interested me lately, is, like, space." Stoned me is 100% here for phrasing like this. Glob bless ♥️ Ty for covering this and sharing your previous self-text, fwiw I really enjoyed a while back video you did on the vengeance of light or whatever the title was with that other guy, so this was a nice mini return to the area. 24:15 "sounds like something the Buddhists would do." Not limited to Buddhism, but the phrase "timeless" has obvious positive connotations of transcendence. In at least the plum village school of Buddhism, there is a distinction highlighted between the historical (time) dimension of knowable and the ultimate (timeless) dimension of unknowable. If there are metaphors, they'll probably be in here, a plum village Dharma talk on time, space, reality. https://youtu.be/FGtQWLVZH44,

haw

this is rly great. feel like it ties well with a paper by C Thi Nguyen titled the seductions of clarity

Rockwell Gulassa

At the end Eric’s voice got quieter and for a second I thought Pills had edited it to just fade out with Eric still talking 😂

Sebas

just listened -- isn't "The Leviathan" itself a metaphor? A king as a mythical sea beast. How does that square with Hobbes' disdain of metaphor? Loved the episode, thanks for sharing your work Pills!

Joey McAuley

"The spectacle inherits the weakness of the Western philo­sophical project, which attempted to understand activity by means of the categories of vision, and it is based on the relentless development of the particular technical rationality that grew out of that form of thought. The spectacle does not realize philosophy, it philosophizes reality, reducing everyone's concrete life to a universe of speculation."

Miguel de Jesus

I'd argue "sugarcoating" is as visual a metaphor as a gustatory one. How do visually impaired people come to appreciate the concepts anchored on visual metaphors, I wonder?