26 October 2020 New Novella Should be free for kindle, but let me know if you can't get it free and will try to get it to you.
5 October 2020 Rhetoric in the 21st Century Any cursory interaction with the many forms in which one consumes media today might show one that words are not lacking. Words are not lacking, and, to some accounts, rhetoric isn't either. But
2 October 2020 Epistemology: A Reason to Believe I make my well-worn way to a small booth wherein truth is told to a shrouded old man nearby and the reconstructing of reality commences with every word.
28 September 2020 Wicked Problems What follows comes from a discussion post I made in a university class recently.
21 September 2020 #12 - Sidelights Episode #4: The Future of our Book Club As a core component which has shaped us, we must carefully consider the future of our book club and continue to breath life into the practices therein. In this conversation, Brandon and Jacob discuss the results from a recent vision-casting meeting and consider the philosophy behind our studies.
6 September 2020 A Novel Approach to Metaphysical Truth The issue of metaphysical truth is one of finite debate and eternal consequence. Generally, it is accepted as a colloquially philosophical question, as most people never discover the need to consider it formally.
11 August 2020 #11 - Avicenna and Epicureanism: Truth? New Atheism. Left Behind Theology. What is Avicenna's Proof of the Truthful, and in what sense did he mean something was true? Today's show interviews Stephen McClung on his perspective on Avicenna and Epicurus, along with their respective beliefs place in the present culture.
3 August 2020 # 10 - Sidelights Episode #3: Art, Archetypes, and Religion On today's program, the discussion centers around various works of art and artists, the role of such in society, and how such relates to current and future affairs, religious devotion, and the craft of artistry as applied to writing.
27 July 2020 #09 - Metaphysics and Other Vices The perceptual capacity of animals and humans differ in the endless search for the source, the answer to questions. Is any of this clawing at the heaven's truly helpful?
20 July 2020 #08 - Sidelights Episode #2: The Problem of Evil, Flawed Education, the Freedom Responsibility In today’s episode, Jacob and Brandon bring sidelight topics that stuck out to them from the past few episodes. The problem of evil and the flaws in the educational system are discussed.
13 July 2020 #07 - Aquinas ad Astra The greatest theologian that ever lived, according to some, sought to answer every attack on his faith, as well as provide the human mind tangible proof of the divine's existence. He gave five proofs for God in his famous seminal work Summa Theologica.
6 July 2020 #06 - Narratives in Philosophy In this episode, we explore the concept of narrative itself. The Master Narrative Structure is employed to evaluate the merits of actions and ideas. Pascal's Wager is used as a bridge to consider the transcendent.
29 June 2020 #5 - The Unified Line and Particle Physics ~ Plato’s Cognitive Framework Hosts, Jacob and Brandon, interview Stephen McClung about his unified line, an original idea developed to bring the platonic structure of cognition into the present era. https://youtu.be/c4-4fcHwy-U