diff --git a/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-1-Preparing-To-Know-The-Good.md b/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-1-Preparing-To-Know-The-Good.md index 3475da1..3f59d20 100644 --- a/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-1-Preparing-To-Know-The-Good.md +++ b/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-1-Preparing-To-Know-The-Good.md @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ title: "Book 3 Chapter 1: Preparing to Know the Good" date: 2020-07-19T21:39:59Z series: "The Consolation of Philosophy" image: img/1295493-1593966149384-fbe3d151bfd13.jpg -enclosure: audio/podcast_2020-07-05_5085c550e080702d2b2a3c29aea72831.m4a +enclosure: audio/podcast_2020-07-05_boethius-book-3-chapter-1.mp3 draft: false --- -{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-07-05_5085c550e080702d2b2a3c29aea72831.m4a" >}} +{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-07-05_boethius-book-3-chapter-1.mp3" >}} Boethius beseeches Philosophy to continue. She promises to lead him to true happiness. Philosophy then prepares Boethius for his turn toward the truth. Aristotle and Plato are untwined in the beginning of this book, as Aristotle’s method of imminence gives way to Plato’s method of transcendence. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-2-Aristotle-Happiness-and-The-Good.md b/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-2-Aristotle-Happiness-and-The-Good.md index 4ee1a3b..3f3ca00 100644 --- a/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-2-Aristotle-Happiness-and-The-Good.md +++ b/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-2-Aristotle-Happiness-and-The-Good.md @@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ title: "Book 3 Chapter 2: Aristotle, Happiness, and The Good" date: 2020-07-26T21:35:55Z series: "The Consolation of Philosophy" image: img/1295493-1594550903169-a760175a5bfb6.jpg -enclosure: audio/podcast_2020-07-12_edacce58959c6d5b98ed55e258eb245c.m4a +enclosure: audio/podcast_2020-07-12_boethius-book-3-chapter-2.mp3 draft: false --- -{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-07-12_edacce58959c6d5b98ed55e258eb245c.m4a" >}} +{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-07-12_boethius-book-3-chapter-2.mp3" >}} Happiness is the one end which all created beings seek. They aim variously at (a) wealth, or (b) rank, or (c) sovereignty, or (d) glory, or (e) pleasure, because they think thereby to attain either (a) contentment, (b) reverence, (c) power, (d) renown, or (e) gladness of heart, in one or other of which they severally imagine happiness to consist. Analysis: Boethius debates Aristotle on the nature of the Summum Bonum, and comes down on the side of Plato. The highest good is an absolute, not a relative. I read several passages from **Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics**. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-3-Wealth-Is-No-Substitute.md b/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-3-Wealth-Is-No-Substitute.md index e28de8e..e4f70ca 100644 --- a/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-3-Wealth-Is-No-Substitute.md +++ b/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-3-Wealth-Is-No-Substitute.md @@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ title: "Book 3 Chapter 3: Wealth Is No Substitute" date: 2020-08-02T21:28:55Z series: "The Consolation of Philosophy" image: img/1295493-1595172560207-b46587b02e699.jpg -enclosure: audio/podcast_2020-07-19_337bc5b559efb4efcff89a324819460b.m4a +enclosure: audio/podcast_2020-07-19_boethius-book-3-chapter-3.mp3 draft: false --- -{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-07-19_337bc5b559efb4efcff89a324819460b.m4a" >}} +{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-07-19_boethius-book-3-chapter-3.mp3" >}} Philosophy proceeds to consider whether happiness can really be secured in any of these ways, (a) So far from bringing contentment, riches only add to men’s wants. Analysis: Philosophy and Boethius discuss the insufficiency of wealth to the attainment of happiness. In the analysis, we shall see that Boethius is once again signaling his departure from Aristotle. The core of the discussion is the distinction between self-sufficiency, and dependence. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-4-Prestige-Is-No-Substitute.md b/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-4-Prestige-Is-No-Substitute.md index 25b22d6..93113bb 100644 --- a/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-4-Prestige-Is-No-Substitute.md +++ b/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-4-Prestige-Is-No-Substitute.md @@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ title: "Book 3 Chapter 4: Prestige Is No Substitute" date: 2020-10-04T21:26:00Z series: "The Consolation of Philosophy" image: img/1295493-1599945672569-62eae6b72de6a.jpg -enclosure: audio/podcast_2020-09-12_830f3a191cd9ca0cfa9a4c303bebebec.m4a +enclosure: audio/podcast_2020-09-12_boethius-book-3-chapter-4.mp3 draft: false --- -{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-09-12_830f3a191cd9ca0cfa9a4c303bebebec.m4a" >}} +{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-09-12_boethius-book-3-chapter-4.mp3" >}} The second of reasons insufficient for securing happiness: (b) High position cannot of itself win respect. Titles command no reverence in distant and barbarous lands. They even fall into contempt through lapse of time. Analysis: Philosophy explains to Boethius how the pursuit of honor and respect in this world, is no path to happiness \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-5-Power-Is-No-Substitue.md b/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-5-Power-Is-No-Substitue.md index ba4a4cf..319f1fc 100644 --- a/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-5-Power-Is-No-Substitue.md +++ b/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-5-Power-Is-No-Substitue.md @@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ title: "Book 3 Chapter 5: Power Is No Substitute" date: 2020-10-11T21:08:01Z series: "The Consolation of Philosophy" image: img/1295493-1600603592100-ed09faf074b2c.jpg -enclosure: audio/podcast_2020-09-20_0c810ce67e40ca1e3e02f67138c57f3f.m4a +enclosure: audio/podcast_2020-09-20_boethius-book-3-chapter-5.mp3 draft: false --- -{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-09-20_0c810ce67e40ca1e3e02f67138c57f3f.m4a" >}} +{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-09-20_boethius-book-3-chapter-5.mp3" >}} (c) Sovereignty cannot even bestow safety. History tells of the downfall of kings and their ministers. Tyrants go in fear of their lives. Analysis: Lady Philosophy has been walking us through the various false routes to happiness, and this week, we revisit the question of power. I look briefly at the relationship between Seneca and Nero, and ask the question: why are philosophers drawn to the powerful? diff --git a/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-6-Glory-Is-No-Substitute.md b/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-6-Glory-Is-No-Substitute.md index 36a2a92..94daaa2 100644 --- a/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-6-Glory-Is-No-Substitute.md +++ b/content/podcast/boethius-book-3-chapter-6-Glory-Is-No-Substitute.md @@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ title: "Book 3 Chapter 6: Glory Is No Substitute" date: 2020-10-18T21:01:44Z series: "The Consolation of Philosophy" image: img/1295493-1601225654890-7ab2f9f187efe.jpg -enclosure: audio/podcast_2020-09-27_54f4dc215f5898db6dc3860f2448ba16.m4a +enclosure: audio/podcast_2020-09-27_boethius-book-3-chapter-6.mp3 draft: false --- -{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-09-27_54f4dc215f5898db6dc3860f2448ba16.m4a" >}} +{{< audio "https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/podcast/audio/podcast_2020-09-27_boethius-book-3-chapter-6.mp3" >}} (d) Fame conferred on the unworthy is but disgrace. The splendour of noble birth is not a man’s own, but his ancestors’. Analysis – Philosophy Tells us why Glory is a poor substitute for true happiness. The dialogue actually dances between two different definitions of glory – terrestrial, and transcendent. *Bonus content: a segment from a **Paula Gooder lecture, on the question of glory**. You can find the {{< newtab title="original lecture here." url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ6NX0REEOE" >}}. \ No newline at end of file