Darren Staloff Q&A with Royal Northern College of Music
Charity and steelman arguments for interpreting others
Place them in context and surround with other perspectives to hone your own view.
Cyclical time vs linear time
Living in the Maha Yuga (Yuga Cycle in general)
The “denigration” of life and the world
Rules of art
constraints define
1:03:00 - made me think about Shuhari. How you need to understand the rules before breaking.
Enjoying art, and especially “high art”
think about wine, music, art, movies
Question Timestamps:
0:19 The Principle of Charity
2:50 "Steel-manning"; How to come to your own conclusions; "get on the inside of the idea"
8:14 Uncharitable reading; "I'm an archeologist of old thoughts"
13:01 Heidegger
15:40 How do you encourage people to argue charitably?
23:51 Mircea Eliade; Cyclical & Linear Time
47:43 John Vervaeke: The Meaning Crisis; "Serious Play"/Classical Music
52:50 The Rules of Art
1:00:33 The Future of the Arts
1:07:40 High Culture & Common Culture
1:11:13 Approaching Philosophy as Historians; American History in Cyclical Time
1:35:46 Jonathan Pageau: Spirituality Without Religion
1:39:05 Orthopraxy without Orthodoxy
1:44:34 The Parable of the Good Samaritan; Hosea & the Prostitute; Furnishing the mind with Beauty