As Variously As Possible
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editor: Podcast
- Duración: 181:11:15
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Sinopsis
Weekly conversations about our world and the imagination it takes to live well in it. We wander in poetry and the arts, philosophy, science, psychology and religion, and elsewhere. "The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us" and no matter our age, we can regain the "beginner's mind" we had as children.
Episodios
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As Variously as Possible - Episode 7 - Some Notes on Traditionalism - Part 2
06/03/2017 Duración: 15minA few words to listeners plus a bit more commentary on Henry Corbin's relation to historicism and Traditionalism.
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As Variously As Possible - Episode 7 - Some Notes on Traditionalism - Part 1
26/02/2017 Duración: 21minAs Variously As Possible - Episode 7 - Some Notes on Traditionalism - Part 1 by Tom Cheetham
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As Variously as Possible: Episode 6 - The Triumph of Language Over Writing
11/02/2017 Duración: 19minTo approach the question of "writing," both legible and illegible, along with the more basic question of signification, we need to greatly expand our sense of what reading is. One way to do that is to think about its history. How has the experience of reading changed since people first began doing it? Why is this important for us?
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As Variously as Possible: Episode 5 - Imagining & Believing
05/02/2017 Duración: 27minWhile you’re imagining you can’t believe or disbelieve. Imagination crosses out all this business of knowing and not knowing. When you get news in the imagination it doesn’t [bother you whether you] know it or don't know it. - Robert Duncan
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As Variously As Possible: Episode 4 - The Paradox Of Monotheism
30/01/2017 Duración: 36minWhy we need the notion of Angels to keep us from idolatry and egotism - why God is such a dangerous idea, but necessary nonetheless.
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As Variously as Possible: Episode 3 - Harmonia Abrahamica
29/01/2017 Duración: 23minHenry Corbin’s work was devoted to illustrating deep connections between the mystical traditions within Christianity and Islam and Judaism. He thought of this as similar to the attempts of early Christians to reconcile the stories in the four Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The traditional name for the underlying unity of the Gospels is the Harmonia evangelica. Corbin thought that Judaism, Christianity & Islam were all united by an underlying Harmonia Abrahamica: the harmony of the religions of Abraham.
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As Variously As Possible: Episode 2 - On Not Knowing - Part 2
28/01/2017 Duración: 19minA meditation on ignorance and humility and what they are good for: a gift of freedom to live and imagine richly in the mystery at the heart of things. It may seem like an odd time in America to be arguing for the necessity of ignorance - in part 2 we'll explain why this is dangerously wrong.
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As Variously as Possible: Episode 2 - On Not Knowing - Part 1
26/01/2017 Duración: 29minA meditation on ignorance and humility and what they are in the end good for, which is a gift of freedom to live and imagine richly in the presence of the mystery at the heart of things.
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As Variously as Possible: Episode 1 - The Poetic Basis of Mind: Part 2
22/01/2017 Duración: 26minThe phrase "poetic basis of mind" comes from the psychologist James Hillman (1926 - 2011). We'll explore the psychology of creative imagination, some of the ways language both controls and liberates our thought, the difference between literal truth and metaphoric or provisional knowledge, and why this matters in our individual lives and in the culture as a whole.
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As Variously as Possible: Episode 1 - The Poetic Basis of Mind, Part 1
21/01/2017 Duración: 27minThe phrase "poetic basis of mind" comes from the psychologist James Hillman (1926 - 2011). We'll explore the psychology of creative imagination, some of the ways language both controls and liberates our thought, the difference between literal truth and metaphoric or provisional knowledge, and why this matters in our individual lives and in the culture as a whole.