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The thinker he chose to sit under for thirty years.
Kant's four human superpowers, Kant on love, and a long interview on why nearly everyone reads Kant's Religion wrong. Start here if you want to understand the scholarship behind the podcast.
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46:24Dr. Firestone reads his Evangelical Philosophical Society paper 'Rational Religious Love,' tracing Kant's 'noumenal point of orientation' in freedom through the prototype's condescension and communal responsibility to a rational religious approximation of agape, and applies it to friendship in a book co-written with Alex Pierce.
Lecture-style series build on themselves. Numbered so you can follow the thread.
46:24Dr. Firestone reads his Evangelical Philosophical Society paper 'Rational Religious Love,' tracing Kant's 'noumenal point of orientation' in freedom through the prototype's condescension and communal responsibility to a rational religious approximation of agape, and applies it to friendship in a book co-written with Alex Pierce.
39:55Speaking extemporaneously to his nieces and nephews, Dr. Firestone lays out Kant's four human superpowers (perception, reason, aesthetic judgment, and moral freedom), explains why we take them for granted among eight billion people, and applies Aristotle's habit-based virtue to activating them.
1:21:42In this interview from Parker's Pensées, Dr. Firestone explains why he chose Kant as the thinker to sit under, how the seven-year book 'In Defense of Kant's Religion' (co-written with Nathan Jacobs) aimed to right the ship of Kant studies, and why the standard reading of Kant as reducing religion to ethics misreads the conundrums in the Religion text.
6 episodesSix episodes on what dreams are, from Freud and Jung to Genesis and Revelation.
2 episodesThe form and substance that made the republic last.
4 episodesField reports from protests, AmericaFest, a revival tour, and a commencement.
