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Long Post Sum-Up: Don't Give Time to Jerks

As I move Orexis Dianoētikē away from longer essays, I'm shifting that writing activity to other platforms.  
These include Medium, where I published a post earlier today,  Don’t Give Them Time .  It's the first in what will be a series of posts on dealing with (you almost think) deliberately difficult, and downright jerkish people in the online world.
Since this blog is now intended for updates and shorter pieces, what I'll do when I publish a longer piece is either summarize...

Five Videos on Anselm's Proslogion

As I've mentioned in earlier posts, I have been creating new core concept videos for students enrolled in my college classes this semester.  So far I've released several new series, links to which are below.

One of the texts we are covering in its entirety in my Marquette classes, and just in part in my MATC class, is Anselm of Canterbury's short work, the Proslogion .  I created five new core concept videos covering some of the main aspects and arguments in that work (which is, accor...

Easy Mistake To Make: Rematerializing The Platonic Ideal

This semester, I am teaching two key Platonic texts - the Meno  in its entirety, and the Republic in relatively short parts - and using them both to introduce students to the notion of Platonic forms or ideas.  Or if you like, archetypes or models, after which all of the material things we encounter and take as being "real", are copied.

In the Platonic point of view, this entire "real world", the material tangible world of change and plurality we live out or lives in and take our bear...

My Students' Interest in Aristotle's Social Virtues

This semester I am teaching two sections of Foundations in Philosophy at Marquette University.  We are running through a number of texts and thinkers (you can read the list of them here), and among those are Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.  Because I added more Plato, we can't do quite so much from Aristotle, so we are giving the Ethics just three days.  
The first was devoted to books 1 and 2 - so teleology, happiness, and the nature of virtue.  Next class session, we...

AMA Session Coming Up Later Today

Each month, I hold an AMA - Ask Me Anything - session online for my viewers, subscribers, supporters, and other fans. 

I'll be holding the next AMA for this month a bit later today, at 12:00 PM Central.  Here's the link for the session - you can set a reminder notification for it on that page.  If you have questions you'd like to ask me, make sure to get them in early on.  I'll keep the session open for an hour and a half, but we invariably end with a number of later-asked...

Four New Appearances

It's about time for another roundup of my recent appearances on radio shows, podcasts, and video channels. The last list I made was in November, and several new ones have aired since then.  There are several other appearances and episodes either scheduled for recording, or already recorded and waiting to be released.

I get fairly regular requests to talk about a variety of topics because of my philosophy-focused YouTube channel, my business ReasonIO, and my work as edi...

Local Talk Tomorrow - Epictetus, Slavery, Stoicism, and the Roman Empire

If you're in the greater Milwaukee area, and you'd like to learn more about a great Stoic philosopher, I'll be giving a talk for the general public at the Frank Weyenberg Library, "Epictetus, Slavery, Stoicism, and the Roman Empire" - 6:00 PM, Tuesday, February 5.  Here's the Facebook event page.

This talk kicks off the fourth year for the Philosophers in the Midst of History series, an invited series of quarterly talks hosted by the Frank Weyenberg.  Each year, I give one talk on an...

Seven Videos on Aristotle's Metaphysics book 1

This semester, in my Intro to Philosophy and Foundations of Philosophy classes, I'm teaching book 1 of Aristotle's Metaphysics to my students.  Whenever I can, I strive to create videos covering the material that I assign them to read, and then we discuss in class.

For my students, these short videos provide an additional set of resources, helping them to understand the readings and consolidate their growing knowledge.  The general public utilizes them for a much wider set of pu...

Plato's Meno, Knowledge as Recollection, and Instinct

I just spent a good bit of time reading, grading, and giving feedback on my students' short papers grappling with a key theme in Plato's dialogue, the  Meno - the Platonic doctrine of knowledge as recollection. 
After requiring them to explain that doctrine - that we human beings already have knowledge within us, which we learned in a previous bodiless state of existence, and which teaching can help us recall - I asked them whether they found Plato's view on knowledge plausible. ...

Changing Focus and Format Here

I started this blog nearly a decade ago.  Originally, it was to be a place for me to set down my thoughts in a looser and more unfinished format than my academic writing.  Then it became one of several different blogs.  As of late, I've published the occasional long blog piece - when I find the time to write it! - in between updates about series of videos and podcast episodes.

Today, as I was thinking about other virtual locations where I either already write or intend to start...