Max Stirner's The Unique and Its Own, Deep Dive Part 2

We begin this episode going over Stirner’s critique of philosophers and the Enlightenment. It’s important to keep in mind that whatever problem he has with religion, he also has that problem with people too focused on thinking or capital T truth. As he says, a shout or a jump is as good at relieving anxiety as studying any book.</p> We also look at the overlap in thought between Stirner and Foucault, Gabriel Marcel, Freud, and Girard. For example, both Stirner and Marcel think you should not ask what are humans? You should ask: who am I? And regarding connections between Girard and Stirner, we look at the human propensity to always create a sacred and always let our desires overtake us.</p> We end the episode reflecting on what is sacred today? What do we let dominate us? And what is our scapegoat?</p> 00:04:10 Stirner’s Critique of Philosophy and the Enlightenment 00:28:25 Connections between Stirner and Foucault, Marcel, Freud, and Girard. 01:30:45 Stirner’s Stoicism and our Contemporary World</p>

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Max Stirner's The Unique and its Own, Deep Dive Part 1

Topics Discussed:</p> <ul> <li>The relationship between particulars and universals</li> <li>Demon posession and god possession</li> <li>The religious discontent with the present</li> <li>The Sacred and when ideas overtake us</li> <li>When our future self overtakes us</li> </ul> Sections: Intro (00:00:34) Basic Overview of Stirner's Arguments (00:05:55) Stirner's Critique of Religion (00:38:20)</p> Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com</p> Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at <a href="https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494">https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494</a></p>

01:14:31

Gabriel Marcel's The Mystery of Being, Deep Dive

Topics Discussed:</p> <ul> <li>Gabriel Marcel</li> <li>Martin Heidegger</li> <li>Phenomenology</li> <li>Psychology</li> </ul> Sections: Intro: 00:00:55 1 Marcel's Philosophical Framework: 00:06:45 2 Realworld Examples from Marcel: 00:47:25</p>

01:20:55

Rene Girard's I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, Deep Dive

Topics Discussed:</p> <ul> <li>Jesus</li> <li>Satan</li> <li>Philosophy</li> <li>Peter Thiel</li> <li>Curtis Yarvin</li> <li>Psychology</li> <li>Desire</li> </ul> Sections: (00:01:20) Intro I. (00:06:05) Overview of Girard's theory and his interpretation of two bible myths II. (00:46:32) Satan as the representation of the mimetic cycle of desire III. (01:10:33) Demonology and Psychology, plus our modern fixation on victims </p> Episode References: <a href="https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2013/09/technology-communism-and-brown-scare/">Technology, Communisim, and the Brown Scare - Mencius Moldbug</a> <a href="https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/peter-thiel-political-theology/">Tyler Cowen Interview of Peter Thiel</a> Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com</p> Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at <a href="https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494">https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494</a></p>

01:40:56

Rene Girard's The Scapegoat, Deep Dive

Topics Discussed:</p> <ul> <li>The Bible</li> <li>John the Baptist</li> <li>Rene Girard</li> <li>Freud</li> <li>Psychology</li> </ul> Sections: Intro (00:01:05) Girard's General Theory and the story of Caiaphas (00:05:20) The Beheading of John the Baptist (00:34:05) Peter's Denial (01:02:03) Demons of Gerasa (01:18:09) The Supernatural Inspiration of the Bible (01:48:45)</p> Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com</p> Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at <a href="https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494">https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494</a></p>

01:53:32

Freud's Moses and Monotheism, Deep Dive

Topics Discussed:</p> <ul> <li>God</li> <li>Psychoanalysis</li> <li>Moses</li> <li>Judaism</li> <li>Religion</li> <li>Freud</li> <li>Atheism</li> <li>Darwin</li> </ul> Sections: Intro (00:00:55) I. Moses the Egyptian (00:05:24) II. Psychoanalyzing Human History (00:24:56) III. Why Freud Wrote about Moses (00:57:53)</p> Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com</p> Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at <a href="https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494">https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494</a></p>

01:32:18

Freud's Moses and Monotheism, Book Brief

Topics Discussed:</p> <ul> <li>Psychoanalysis</li> <li>Freud</li> <li>Girard</li> <li>Moses</li> <li>Judaism</li> </ul> Sections: Intro: 00:00:53 Freud's Method: 00:03:34</p> Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com</p> Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at <a href="https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494">https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494</a></p>

00:15:14

Rene Girard, Barbie, and Identity

Topics Discussed:</p> <ul> <li>Barbie movie</li> <li>Identity</li> <li>Girard</li> <li>Feminism</li> </ul> Sections: intro (00:00:20) Girard and Identity (00:16:15) Jokes reveal the truth (00:31:30) The Daughter (00:46:50) Motherhood (00:54:20)</p> Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com</p> Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at <a href="https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494">https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494</a></p>

01:14:32

Friedrich Nietzsche's The AntiChrist Deep Dive

Topics Discussed:</p> <ul> <li>Nietzsche</li> <li>Jesus</li> <li>Atheism</li> <li>Christianity</li> </ul> Sections:</p> <ul> <li>Intro (00:04:33)</li> <li>Nietzsche's Philosophy and Christianity (00:10:37)</li> <li>Jesus (00:37:15)</li> <li>Power and Christianity (00:44:16)</li> <li>The Antichrist (01:00:15)</li> </ul> Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com</p> Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at <a href="https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494">https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494</a></p>

01:13:56

Friedrich Nietzsche's The Antichrist

Topics Discussed:</p> Sections: Nietzsche Jesus Christianity Morality Nihilism</p> Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com</p> Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at <a href="https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494">https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494</a></p>

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