In this episode, Dan talk with Crispin Sartwell of Dickinson College about Dan's essay, "Wanting and Doing." We discuss action, desire, and powerlessness as understood in Christian theology and contemporary addiction discourse.(Here's the article under discussion: https://theelectricagora.com/2021/05/25/wanting-and-doing/).
4:04 Wanting and doing in Christian and Addiction Discourse.
36:54 Overeating and the Problem of Conflicting Desires.
47:43 Habits.
49:48 Actions and Events.
Crispin's recent essay, "Western Philosophy as White Supremacism" ... Dan accuses Crispin of ahistorical revisionism ... Descartes as a product of his age ......
The new issue of Milton's comic book, Thompson Heller: Detective Interstellar ... Christopher Hitchens' influence on Milton's comic ... The anxieties of robot personhood...
The first of a two-part conversation with Joshua Rasmussen of Azusa Pacific University on a broad variety of issues, related to the meaning of...