PODCASTS and RECORDINGS

Here, I collect all of my podcasts and recordings that I have made available for people to listen.

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Just getting this thing off the ground. This is the introductory lecture I give most of my courses. 

1. Philosophizing is the willingness to be uncertain and the will to ask questions (See pamphlet PM000). Also, see https://callmemaggie.com/2013/11/30/willingness-and-will

2. Self-exploration is the first step toward bearing the burden of freedom. 

3. Our vocation is humanization. 

4. We must overcome the tendency to take things for granted: I call this Whatification (see exercise PM001).

5. Fully engaging with the world rather than mechanically mimicking the status quo.

6. Rediscovering the power of playfulness to take off the mask of workism. PM000 Maggie Teaching Philosophy.pdfPM001 Breaking out of Whatification.docx

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Today, I am joined by my comrade sibling, Kris Hawkins. We go a bit more deeply into why folx have to develop the willingness to be uncertain and break away from the habit of desiring certainty (or security) in our lives. 

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Video where I take folks through Ch1 of Jaspers’ 1948 German radio lectures.

Some more about Karl Jaspers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Jaspers

SONG: “Clapping” by Endre on Purpose from his album +36, NO RE-UP, distributed by ItsLikeThat Records, Nashville, TN (©2019 by Endre Wagner). You can download +36, NO RE-UP at BandCamp for a small donation. Please give support and share.

LOGO: “Call me Maggie Logo” (2019) by Benjamin Ross, Ph.D.

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I’m joined once again by my good sibling Kris Hawkins, this time to begin our series on Laozi’s DAO DE JING. There are 81 poems in this classic of ancient Chinese literature. Each episode of DAOISM 101, we will wander through 3 or so of the poems, taking a closer look at what they tell us about ancient China, perennial philosophy, and our own contemporary situation. 

To read along with us… Lu and Brown (2018) Dào Dé Jing 

As I often like to do when going over a text, I had a fresh copy in front of me while Kris and I mind-walked. So this is a pdf of my scribbles from the pages if you care to see…
Maggie’s scribbles from conversation.

Please check out Kris Hawkins’ new blog, SHOSHAKU JUSHAKU. 

MUSIC: “Stardu$t” (2017) by Jah Frida, featuring 11, from the album ALL JOKES ASIDE. Courtesy of Its Like That Records, Nashville, TN. 

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I like to compare and contrast how we find our circumstances today with how ancient wisdom sources talk about the human situation. I recently had the opportunity to direct a discussion on the difference between Violent and Loving Struggle. I asked folx to think about this in terms of Laozi’s Dào Dé Jing in conjunction with Jaspers’ work on existential elucidation.  

Here is a PDF outlining my meandering:
CMM0005–VIOLENCE, LOVE AND DAOIST STRUGGLE—20Sep2019.pdf 

You can find a copy of the co-translation I did with my Chinese colleague, LU Wenlong, here:
Lu+Brown (2018) Dào Dé Jing

MUSIC: “Stardu$t” (2017) by Jah Frida, featuring 11, from the album ALL JOKES ASIDE. Courtesy of Its Like That Records, Nashville, TN.

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I am happy to share a conversation I had with Angela Drummund-Matthews, Ph.D., a wonderful longtime friend, my writing partner, and my anime guru. 

Dr. Drummond-Mathews is a professor of English teaching at Mountain View College. Her areas of study are contemporary American literature and culture, speculative fiction, Afrofuturism,  and Japanese anime and manga.

MUSIC: “Stardu$t” (2017) by Jah Frida, featuring 11, from the album ALL JOKES ASIDE. Courtesy of Its Like That Records, Nashville, TN.

To learn more about Karl Jaspers’ concept of Loving Struggle, here are two pages at my website that might be helpful. 

1. Revisiting the Loving Struggle
https://callmemaggie.com/2014/03/23/revisiting-the-loving-struggle/

2. Some more on the Loving Struggle
https://callmemaggie.com/2014/03/23/some-more-on-loving-struggle/

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Kris Hawkins and I continue our series on Laozi’s DAO DE JING. There are 81 poems in this classic of ancient Chinese literature. In each episode of DAOISM 101, we will wander through 3 or so of the poems, taking a closer look at what they tell us about ancient China, perennial philosophy, and our own contemporary situation. 

To read along with us… Lu and Brown (2018) Dào Dé Jing 

Today we are looking at poems 39, 42, and 47. Lot’s of talk about the One and that, of course, leads us to some Jaspersian and Heidegerrean talk about Being-Itself.

Please check out Kris Hawkins’ new blog, SHOSHAKU JUSHAKU. 

MUSIC: “Stardu$t” (2017) by Jah Frida, featuring 11, from the album ALL JOKES ASIDE. Courtesy of Its Like That Records, Nashville, TN. 

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A concluding lecture I gave for an upper level Metaphysics course that had focused primarily on the work of Martin Heidegger.

This lecture should be helpful to anyone who has been studying with me Socrates and the Pre-Socratics, Laozi and Karl Jaspers, and/or Fritjof Capra and Bayo Akomolafe.

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Students in this 2015 class spent the entire semester studying Martin Heidegger’s _Being and Time_ [SEIN UNDT ZEIT]. For their final, they were tasked with asking how Heidegger (and colleagues like Karl Jaspers) sought a “change” or “evolution” in ”common sense.” 

Students asked questions to round out their understanding of how contemporary thinkering was predicated upon the need for certainty in a natural world over which we have little to no control. Thus, we start talking about Descartes and Cartesian certainty. 

From there we move to Aristotle’s notions of actuality/potentiality by way of St. Thomas Aquinas.

After we follow the deconstructive path backward through the ”Republic of Letters,” we end up at a story about the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. 

MUSIC: “Stardu$t” (2017) by Jah Frida, featuring 11, from the album ALL JOKES ASIDE. Courtesy of Its LikeThat Records, Nashville, TN. 

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Mind-walk with a beautiful friend, Niklaus, talking about how difficult it is even to see some change in “the system” let alone actually cause “the machinery” to function in a new way.

MUSIC: “Stardu$t” (2017) by Jah Frida, featuring 11, from the album ALL JOKES ASIDE. Courtesy of Its Like That Records, Nashville, TN.

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A few thoughts on Hope in the time of pandemic and willful harm. How Hope connects to Health, Faith to Wholeness, and Charity (Love) to Holiness. 

MUSIC: “Innerds of my Mind” by Endre on Purpose and  11, from the EP Thinking Makes Us Shine (2020). Courtesy of Its Like That Records, Nashville, TN.

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This is one of the last lectures I gave in person during the Spring 2020 semester.It begins with a consideration of two crucial structures in socio-cultural milieu: The Exception and the Authority. The texts students had been reading were the Fragments of Heraclitus and the verses of the Dào Dé Jing. I was most interested in getting the students to see that the extra-ordinary binds and is bound by the ordinary. There must be a creative engagement between that which is exceptional (a great idea or a good person) and that which is authoritative (an established tradition or a sound thinkerer). Without each other, they cause imbalance and harm. This is not unlike the Nietzche’s Master/Slave or Hegel’s Overlord/Servant structure as kinds of examples except that these already begin with at least a perceived imbalance of power. Toward the middle I will delve into my way of knowledge-gathering which includes first understanding how data, facts, information, knowledge, and wisdom all inter-relate and build off of each other. This also includes difficult conversations about how we decide what is ethical and how we are conditioned by the customs surrounding those ethical judgments.—————–MUSIC: Intro and Outro: “Innerds of my Mind” by Endre on Purpose and  11, from the EP Thinking Makes Us Shine (2020). Courtesy of the artists and Its Like That Records, Nashville, TN.Interlude: “Opal” by  11 from the album Beat Leak 2 (2020). Courtesy of the artist and Its Like That Records,  Nashville, TN. OVERVIEW OF THE LECTURE FROM 29FEB2020. A WAY (Chinese–DÀO) and another WAY (Greek–HODOS)

1. We move in a habitat by habits that help us or harm us in inhabiting our situation. 
2. WORLD as OUR HABITAT is distinct from “world” as earth.

EXCEPTION AND AUTHORITY–the exception proves the rule

1. The exception proves the authority BUT the authority NEEDS the exception.
2. Not just to stop the BORING but to keep it thriving.
3. Inevitably, the EXCEPTION BECOMES THE AUTHORITY and a new exception is necessary. 
4. ANARCHÉ–out of order, EXTRAORDINARY–opening up a tendency to shut down without thinking (TYRANNY of DOGMATISM)–DOGMA, DOXA, Gr. Opinion–Religion like Christianity is DOGMATIC or ORTHODOXIC (orthos, right; doxa, opinion): You have to think the right way
5. ARCHÉ–in order ORDINARY–closing down a tendency to break open without thinking (CHAOS of RELATIVISM)

CALL BACK TO HOW WE GET FROM DATA TO KNOWLEDGE–All of our attempts to get close to how things are really arranged must ultimately go back to consciousness as the horizon of shared understanding. (intentionality=consciousness is always already “consciousness OF X”)

1. Data—basic components of all experience; the given in any experience
2. Facts—a robust collection of data 
3. Information—valid arrangement of facts 
4. Knowledge—information ordered in a sound narrative
5. WISDOM–critical assessment of knowledge–Gr. KRITEIN–judgment

BACK AND FORTH DISCOURSE (Dialectic)

1. Material (historic) that relies on our sensibility about the world. PREDICATIBILITY
2. Formal (theoretical) that relies only on logical conception. DEMONSTRABILITY
3. Creative (spiritual, contemplative) that relies on playful imagination. EXPRESSIBILITY 
4. Rational (methodic) that relies on critical assessment of ideas. RELATABILITY 
5. Existential (self-actualization, enlightenment) that relies on personal discourse between yourself and the Immanent World or Transcendent Being. EXCEPTIONABILITY

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I am clearing up my head to do the stuff on the Emperor. This was all just in my way, so I thought I’d share it with all of you. Nothing fancy, just an old man dealing with hyperactivity and anxiety. 

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MUSIC: Intro and Outro: “Innerds of my Mind” by Endre on Purpose and  11, from the EP Thinking Makes Us Shine (2020). Courtesy of the artists and Its Like That Records, Nashville, TN.

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Follow this link to find other recorded events organized by Joy Harris for POSSESSING A COMMON LOGIC.  

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MUSIC: Intro and Outro: “Innerds of my Mind” by Endre on Purpose and  11, from the EP Thinking Makes Us Shine (2020). Courtesy of the artists and Its Like That Records, Nashville, TN.

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Some thinkering that begins clearing a path to put restorative justice at the heart of my way of life.

MUSIC: “Lapis Lazuli” by  11, from the album Beat Leak 2 , ©2020. Courtesy of the artist and Its Like That Records,  Nashville, TN. Available now on iTunes and Spotify.

ARTWORK: “Creative Evolution” (2021) by Maggie Malady.

Click here to download a PDF of the transcript. 

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MUSIC: Intro and Outro: “Innerds of my Mind” by Endre on Purpose and  11, from the EP Thinking Makes Us Shine (2020). Courtesy of the artists and Its Like That Records, Nashville, TN.

Click here to download the transcript.