A series of episodes on different themes of Aristotelian, Kantian, Freudian and Wittgensteinian Philosophical Psychology, including comparing and contrasting Campbells view of the universality and necessity of myth with the Transcendental and Metaphysical accounts of the Ancient Greek, Enlightenment, and Modern Hylomorphic and Critical Philosophy.
The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, "Trump and the Open Society and its Enemies" Season 17 Episode 10
Ancient Athens was a form of direct democracy probably because of its size. The BBC in a program about direct Democracies make the claim that the USA may be an example of this form of rule and that a tyrant was certain to emerge from a state of affairs in which children no longer respect their parents and students are afraid of their teachers. The idea of a representative form of constitutional government came from Aristotle and it is designed specifically to prevent tyrants from usurping pow...
4 Sept 2026
The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Humanism Arendt and Totalitarianism" Season 17 Episode 9
Tyranny for Plato and Aristotle was a pathological form of monarchy in which one tyrant with unnecessary and unlawful desires leads a whole community to ruin and destruction. Totalitarianism Arendt argues is a different phenomenon because it is tolerated by the masses who have lost trust in the political system. Hitler and Stalin used the laws of the state to undermine our historically established sense of justice. Fanatical interpretations of Laws of Nature and History are ...
23 Aug 2026
The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James, Cosmopolitanism, Globalisation, Human Rights and Immigration Season 17 Episode 8
Kant argues that there is a fundamental human right to roam the world and this fact requires from everyone the response of hospitality: a response based on the categorical imperative which demands that every human treats every other human as an end-in-themselves. The original Great Trek From Africa might have been an act of necessity or an act of exploration but whatever was the case it required bravery and resourcefulness. The Chinese in response to the challenge as to why in the...
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