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Sound Philosophy

Chadwick Jenkins

A podcast exploring philosophical and interpretive approaches to the history of popular music.

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00:56:03

097-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 6-7

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2024/07/22

Eric Taxier and I discuss Aristotle's take on courage by investigating chapters 6-7 of Book 3 of the Nicomachean Ethics.

01:12:25

096-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 4-5

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2024/07/22

This episode concludes Aristotle's discussion of the voluntary and issues related to that concept.

00:20:47

095-Cross Domain Application

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2024/06/12

This is a special short episode for my wife's third grade class. It addresses "Cross Domain Application" (taking something you learned in one area and applying it to another). That may sound heady for the third grade, but it is all about learning to appreciate learning.

01:21:04

094-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 2-3

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2024/06/03

Eric Taxier and I continue our discussion of the Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle by interpreting Book 3, Chapters 2-3. This portion of the treatise (Book 3, Chapters 1-5) is a fascinating investigation of human choice and the voluntary. These two chapters deal with choice and deliberation, respectively.

00:16:56

093-Empathy or Sympathy?

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2024/05/16

This is a very special short episode designed for a third grade class my wife teaches. It features a short exploration of what it takes to be kind to and care for others by examining the differences between sympathy and empathy. Listen for the shoutouts to the various members of the class!!

01:40:29

092-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapter 1

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2024/05/15

Eric Taxier and I explore Chapter 1 of Book 3 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Forrest Gump comes in for some rough treatment--in service of the greater cause of understanding moral agency.

01:42:05

091-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 7-9

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2024/05/01

Eric Taxier and I finish discussing Book 2 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. We revisit the "key passage" concerning the Doctrine of the Mean (from chapter 6) then discuss the arrangement and choice of virtues and Aristotle's advice for self-improvement.

01:40:19

090-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 5-6

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2024/04/25

Eric Taxier and I discuss chapters 5 and 6 of Book 2 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. These books truly introduce and start to define the Doctrine of the Mean but immediately demonstrate that the concept is much more complex than summaries of Aristotle often allow.

01:41:04

089-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 3-4

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2024/04/07

Eric Taxier and I discuss Book 2, Chapters 3-4 of Aristotle's celebrated Nicomachean Ethics. We explore how one enters the circle of learning, the monkeys typing Shakespeare thought experiment, consequentialism, and more.

01:24:24

088-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 1-2

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2024/04/03

Eric Taxier and I explore the opening two chapters to Book 2 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. We discuss the two types of virtue (virtues of character and virtues of mind) and spend some real time on the learning paradox--if you learn to build by building, how do you get started if you don't know already how to build?

01:22:31

087-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters...

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2024/03/18

Eric Taxier and I conclude our discussion of Book 1 of Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics.

01:07:25

086-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters...

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2024/02/22

Eric Taxier and I discuss Chapters 10-11 of Book 1 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. These chapters ask the rather odd question of whether we can truly say someone is happy before they are dead.

01:31:35

085- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters...

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2024/02/22

I'm joined by Eric Taxier to continue our discussion of Book 1 of Aristotle's celebrated Nicomachean Ethics. This episode covers chapters 8-9 of Book 1.

01:53:38

084- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapter 7

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2024/01/23

Eric Taxier and I discuss chapter 7 of Book 1 of Aristotle's celebrated Nicomachean Ethics. This is arguably the central chapter to the first book and provides the initial "outline" of Aristotle's take on happiness and the human good.

01:32:15

083- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters...

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2024/01/12

Eric Taxier and I discuss Chapters 5-6 of Book I of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. We discuss various candidates for happiness and what they are lacking and then examine Aristotle's critique of Plato's Form of the Good.

01:35:45

082- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters...

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2024/01/05

Eric Taxier and I discuss chapters 3 and 4 of Book 1 of Aristotle's celebrated treatise, Nicomachean Ethics. We discuss the differences between two forms of attaining or justifying knowledge (demonstration and dialectic), the nature of proof and whether ethical thought can be proven or demonstrated (and to what extent), and many other things.

01:21:20

081- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters...

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2024/01/04

I'm joined by Eric Taxier in the first of several episodes exploring Aristotle's celebrated treatise, the Nicomachean Ethics. This episode carefully examines chapters 1 and 2 of Book 1.

00:41:05

080-Ambivalence in Neutral Milk Hotel and Nana Grizol

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2023/11/27

This episode examines the relationship between ambiguity and ambivalence and looks at two indie rock songs: "Oh Comely" by Neutral Milk Hotel and "Mississippi Swells" by Nana Grizol.

00:38:59

079--Punk Wordsworth: The Smiths

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2023/11/19

This episode looks at the issue of ambiguity in art and then examines "William, It Was Really Nothing," by the Smiths, looking at the ambiguous nature of the lyrics and the music.

00:34:59

078-MF DOOM and the Materiality of Language

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2023/11/06

This episode looks at the materiality of language, particularly in the use of rhyme and examines MF DOOM's idiosyncratic approach to rhyme and what is sometimes termed holorime.

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