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Holy Terrain Art

Holy Terrain Art

Holy Terrain Art is a philosophy podcast, sometimes taken for university-level credit and always available for free at HillJ.net/hta. Teacher exemplary annotations of primary sources are available at HillJ.net/teaching; you can follow along with these during the lectures. Visual art and lecture notes are available at Instagram.com/HolyTerrainArt. Episodes are numbered via canons of base-ten for each lecture series; in practice, this numbering system means that, when the podcast starts reading a new

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1:04:28

HTA 10.1; Kant; Grounding for the Metaphysics of...

Holy Terrain Art ·

2025/10/16

Guiding Questions What is a good will? Instead of happiness, what is the purpose of reason? What is duty? What is respect? There are five formulations of the categorical imperative; these five are different ways of saying the same principle that cannot be put directly into words in only one way. What are the two forms of the categorical imperative related to universal law and end-in-itself? Explain what these two formulations in particular emphasize

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1:32:00

HTA 10.3; Kant; Grounding for the Metaphysics of...

Holy Terrain Art ·

2025/10/16

Guiding QuestionsWhat is a good will? Instead of happiness, what is the purpose of reason? What is duty? What is respect? There are five formulations of the categorical imperative; these five are different ways of saying the same principle that cannot be put directly into words in only one way. What are the two forms of the categorical imperative related to universal law and end-in-itself? Explain what these two formulations in particular emphasize

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1:33:00

HTA 10.2; Kant; Grounding for the Metaphysics of...

Holy Terrain Art ·

2025/10/16

Guiding Questions What is a good will? Instead of happiness, what is the purpose of reason? What is duty? What is respect? There are five formulations of the categorical imperative; these five are different ways of saying the same principle that cannot be put directly into words in only one way. What are the two forms of the categorical imperative related to universal law and end-in-itself? Explain what these two formulations in particular emphasize

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0:54:06

HTA 9.1; Kant; "An Answer to the Question, 'What is...

Holy Terrain Art ·

2025/10/15

Guiding Questions What is enlightenment, for Kant? What produces enlightenment? What is the difference between the public and private uses of reason? Why is it always a violation of human rights to set down a set of rules that can never be questioned, altered, revised, or rewritten? What does the monarch owe to its people regarding freedom of reason/thought?

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1:18:12

HTA 8.5; Spinoza; Ethics [1677]; Part Five [Massumi,...

Holy Terrain Art ·

2025/10/13

Guiding Questions Brian Massumi [2015] How does Massumi bring Spinozan affect into process-relational thought? What real-world impacts does affect theory have? What crises does affect theory (e.g., Spinoza, Benjamin, Deleuze, Massumi, Whitman) resolve or inform? How can understanding historicized zonal process affect aid global well-being?

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2:09:09

HTA 8.2; Spinoza; Ethics [1677]; Part Two [Spinoza,...

Holy Terrain Art ·

2025/10/12

Guiding Questions Baruch Spinoza [1677] How does affect refer to emotion, gesture, mood, feeling, impact, cause, effect, capacity, potential, power, and knowledge all at once? How does affect get at self-other all at once in the simultaneity of (1)affecting-(2)being-affected, i.e., (1)being-affected-(2)affecting? How does affect offer conceptual constructions for a non-linear and zonal metaphysics, i.e., how does affect allow us to think about environments and systems

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0:44:14

HTA 8.1; Spinoza; Ethics [1677]; Part One [Overview,...

Holy Terrain Art ·

2025/10/06

Guiding Questions Baruch Spinoza [1677] How does affect refer to emotion, gesture, mood, feeling, impact, cause, effect, capacity, potential, power, and knowledge all at once? How does affect get at self-other all at once in the simultaneity of (1)affecting-(2)being-affected, i.e., (1)being-affected-(2)affecting? How does affect offer conceptual constructions for a non-linear and zonal metaphysics, i.e., how does affect allow us to think about environments and systems

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1:10:45

HTA 7.3; Descartes; Meditations on First Philosophy...

Holy Terrain Art ·

2025/10/05

Guiding Questions How do I know God exists, and why does it lead to the Cartesian circle? What is the Cartesian Circle? What is clarity and distinctness? What is the difference between objective and formal reality? Why must there be at least as much reality in the cause as in the effect? How does Descartes go from qualitative to categorical justification? What is the relationship between henosis and the natural light? What is

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0:57:17

HTA 7.4; Descartes; Meditations on First Philosophy...

Holy Terrain Art ·

2025/10/05

Guiding Questions How do I know God exists, and why does it lead to the Cartesian circle? What is the Cartesian Circle? What is clarity and distinctness? What is the difference between objective and formal reality? Why must there be at least as much reality in the cause as in the effect? How does Descartes go from qualitative to categorical justification? What is the relationship between henosis and the natural light? What is

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1:33:21

HTA 7.2; Descartes; Meditations on First Philosophy...

Holy Terrain Art ·

2025/10/05

Guiding Questions Why can I not doubt cogito ergo sum, or I am thinking, therefore I exist? How do we know the wax is the same wax after changing form through melting? How does our judgment-perception of the automatons prove that all sense perception is actually and has always actually been mental judgment? What does this say about our perception, cognition, and mind in relation to the world we believe is external to us? In other words, are our worlds truly

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1:13:04

HTA 7.1; Descartes; Meditations on First Philosophy...

Holy Terrain Art ·

2025/10/04

Guiding Questions What is the goal of The Protagonist of the Meditations? Why does doubt function the same as disproving inherited beliefs? Why does The Protagonist not have to doubt every single belief individually? What are the three reasons for skepticism of all inherited belief? How is the Evil Deceiver a rhetorical device without argumentative work?

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0:29:35

HTA 6.4; Aristotle; Nicomachean Ethics [350 BCE];...

Holy Terrain Art ·

2025/09/30

Guiding Questions How does eudaimonia mean happiness but not hedonistic/egoistic pleasure? How does “the mean” of virtue allow just action to depend on history/context? What are the three types of friendship, and which type is most ethical/just? What are the roles of habit and practice in the formation of enacted virtue? Why must reason be enacted, and how does this enacted reason relate to a diversity of pleasures unique to each activity, pleasant in

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0:52:18

HTA 6.3; Aristotle; Nicomachean Ethics [350 BCE];...

Holy Terrain Art ·

2025/09/29

Guiding Questions How does eudaimonia mean happiness but not hedonistic/egoistic pleasure? How does “the mean” of virtue allow just action to depend on history/context? What are the three types of friendship, and which type is most ethical/just? What are the roles of habit and practice in the formation of enacted virtue? Why must reason be enacted, and how does this enacted reason relate to a diversity of pleasures unique to each activity, pleasant in

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0:55:08

HTA 6.2; Aristotle; Nicomachean Ethics [350 BCE];...

Holy Terrain Art ·

2025/09/28

Guiding Questions How does eudaimonia mean happiness but not hedonistic/egoistic pleasure? How does “the mean” of virtue allow just action to depend on history/context? What are the three types of friendship, and which type is most ethical/just? What are the roles of habit and practice in the formation of enacted virtue? Why must reason be enacted, and how does this enacted reason relate to a diversity of pleasures unique to each activity, pleasant in

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1:28:57

HTA 6.1; Aristotle; Nicomachean Ethics [350 BCE];...

Holy Terrain Art ·

2025/09/27

Guiding Questions How does eudaimonia mean happiness but not hedonistic/egoistic pleasure? How does “the mean” of virtue allow just action to depend on history/context? What are the three types of friendship, and which type is most ethical/just? What are the roles of habit and practice in the formation of enacted virtue? Why must reason be enacted, and how does this enacted reason relate to a diversity of pleasures unique to each activity, pleasant in

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1:00:32

HTA 5.1; Interview with Ed Casey; "Peri-Phenomenology...

Holy Terrain Art ·

2025/09/25

Extended Abstract [Holy Terrain Art would like to thank Prof. Casey for devoting his time to this event as well as to thank the Radical Philosophy Association for hosting and allowing secondary publication rights; this interview was originally hosted and published by the Radical Philosophy Association as the September 2025 event for their Radical Philosophy Hour series.] This is an interview with Ed Casey, age 86, on his method of peri-phenomenology which emphasizes edges; place; mutual

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0:40:26

HTA 4.1; Plato; Republic [380 BCE]; excerpts from...

Holy Terrain Art ·

2025/09/23

Guiding Questions How does the Form of the Good illuminate experience? (Book VI; pp. 1127-30) Is the visible or the intelligible realm of being clearer to the mind? (Book VI; pp. 1130-32) How is the instrument [organ] of learning revealed through the Allegory of the Cave? (Book VII; pp. 1132-55)

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1:17:51

HTA 4.2; Plato; Republic [380 BCE]; excerpts from...

Holy Terrain Art ·

2025/09/23

Guiding Questions How does the Form of the Good illuminate experience? (Book VI; pp. 1127-30) Is the visible or the intelligible realm of being clearer to the mind? (Book VI; pp. 1130-32) How is the instrument [organ] of learning revealed through the Allegory of the Cave? (Book VII; pp. 1132-55)

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1:05:29

HTA 3.5; Plato; Republic [380 BCE]; excerpts from...

Holy Terrain Art ·

2025/07/29

Guiding Questions Why is listening important to personal wellbeing? (Book I; pp. 972-73) What determines virtue? How can objects have different virtues from humans? [arete] Would someone be happy with the Ring of Gyges? (Book II; pp. 998-1002) How does the tripartite soul relate to the just city? (Book IV; pp. 1059-77)

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1:04:29

HTA 3.4; Plato; Republic [380 BCE]; excerpts from...

Holy Terrain Art ·

2025/07/29

Guiding Questions Why is listening important to personal wellbeing? (Book I; pp. 972-73) What determines virtue? How can objects have different virtues from humans? [arete] Would someone be happy with the Ring of Gyges? (Book II; pp. 998-1002) How does the tripartite soul relate to the just city? (Book IV; pp. 1059-77)

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