The Displacement of the goddess tradition by the warrior gods and the elevation of the patriarchal society. The mission of Philosophy to stay neutral and transcend all forms of dialectical opposites through firstly hylomorphic theory and secondly, Kantian Critical Theory http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

The Law of Moses and its factual legitimacy. Platos idea of Absolute transcendence versus Aristotles idea of immanent transcendence. Christian lamentation "Dust thou art and unto dust thou shallt return" http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

The deep song of Mythology versus the deep song of Philosophy that perhaps began with the balanced temperate Ancient Greek Mythological spirit of sythesis rather than opposition. Psychoanalyst Otto Rank and the likeness of mythological thought to a neurotic day dream. http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Oriental v Occidental Mythology--The differing Garden plots. The role of Philosophy in the universalising of particular perspectives http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Concluding reflections, The Kantian Imperative and answer to the question "What can we Hope For?" The mythological appeal of Art and the Renaissance. Michelangelo and putting truth to work. http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

The problems of self-actualisation when transcendental supports are removed http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

The contrast between mythological, Philosophical and Scientific forms of understanding the realm of the sacred. http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Spinoza, the Philosopher of the Infinite Buddhism and the noble path, The reconciliation of opposites in one substance http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Dream images versus film images. Is the hero theme an archetype? Instrumentalities and ends in thmselves http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Myth as "transparence to transcendence". James Joyce, Thomas Mann and the links between Art and Mythology. Psychoanalysis as interpreter of the symbols of mythology. http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Heideggers Phenomenological description of instrumentalities and the place of machines in such an environment. Wittgenstein on the impossibility of a machine being alive and conscious http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

The world in certain of its aspects resembles the workings of a computer: input-process-output. Computer Programmers and the "Zombie-experience" (Weizenbaum). The new men and techné: the reduction of experience and understanding to something that is only technically intelligent http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Chat GPT does not qualify for the characterisation "artificial intelligence" because the word intelligence denotes a human power and the danger is that using such terminology will result in equating these forms of intelligence with each other. Chat is not aware of itself in the way in which a living human being is. The programmers could, if they chose to, programme in, not the awareness, but the seeming awareness on the basis of particular questions Chat is asked, but these are two diff...

Chat GPT claims that it is not capable of human understanding but that it is capable of a type of learning. The Zombie new men, Weizenbaum claims, became like the machines they were programming. http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Episode 2. Mythological narrative is no longer important in our contemporary modern societies, sharing the fate of Religion in our technologically oriented world in which film television and artificially intelligent computers play increasingly dominant roles. Stanley Cavell's work "The World Viewed" analyses the meaning of the automated character of the photograph and film and arrives at the surprising conclusion that the human element has been marginalised or removed fro th...

Merleau-Ponty and the lived body. Sexuality is a general atmosphere of our life. Hacker and the categorical framework of Hylomorphism http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Group Psychology and the Ego. The Death Instinct Eros, Thanatos and Ananke. The Cogito and reflection. Hylomorphic conditionality http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

The active and the passive imagination and the interpretation of dreams. Kantian Critical connections and Phenomenological connections. http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Jung and Freud. The Greek "Balance of the Mind". Kleins Whole and part, good and bad objects. Quattrocento Art. Freud and the "spiritual". Freuds criticism of Jungs occultism. http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast

Jung and Freud. The Greek "Balance of the Mind". Kleins Whole and part, good and bad objects. Quattrocento Art. Freud and the "spiritual". Freuds criticism of Jungs occultism. http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast http://michaelrdjames.org Delphic Podcast