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Kierkegaard on risk, Aristotle on courage, and what to do when life becomes unlivable.
Philosophy that starts from inner tubes on the Colorado River, a toxic South Side school, and a marathon run on beer instead of water. Each episode takes one big thinker and one real situation and asks what to do.
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57:29Prompted by his habit of watching risk-taking reels, Dr. Firestone recounts nearly dying while rafting the Colorado River on truck inner tubes and uses Kierkegaard's aesthetic, ethical, and religious stages to explain why the thrill of risk eventually has to give way to a duty-bound life beyond the self.
Lecture-style series build on themselves. Numbered so you can follow the thread.
57:29Prompted by his habit of watching risk-taking reels, Dr. Firestone recounts nearly dying while rafting the Colorado River on truck inner tubes and uses Kierkegaard's aesthetic, ethical, and religious stages to explain why the thrill of risk eventually has to give way to a duty-bound life beyond the self.
49:49Coining the term 'onto-contextology,' Dr. Firestone tells how his parents pulled him from a toxic South Side Chicago school into a Lutheran school and argues that who you are is shaped by both essence and context, offering the twin principles of initiation (walk through a new door) and culmination (finish what you start).
50:39From sandlot baseball on the South Side to homeschooling and Turning Point Prep Year, Dr. Firestone contrasts Plato's gold-silver-bronze souls with Aristotle's virtue-through-habit and argues for bringing young people along before they seem ready.
1:03:18In a talk to the Turning Point Education Educators Summit, Dr. Firestone teaches 'not what to think but how to think,' using the Firestone dinner table as a model of Socratic dialogue, Kant's 'self-incurred tutelage,' and a proof that time does not exist to raise the intellectual bar with kids.
45:05Using Aristotle's account of courage as the mean between two vices, Dr. Firestone tells of a friend sliding down a rope with fingerless gloves and his own beer-instead-of-water marathon, showing how valor without teachability turns success into failure.
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