{"id":35201,"date":"2015-04-13T18:46:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T22:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=35201"},"modified":"2016-03-22T20:40:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T00:40:54","slug":"podcast-83-the-spiritual-journey-of-a-maverick-philosopher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-83-the-spiritual-journey-of-a-maverick-philosopher\/","title":{"rendered":"podcast 83 &#8211; The Spiritual Journey of a Maverick Philosopher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1975\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-35201-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities083.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities083.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities083.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities083.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=35201-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities083.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"trinities083.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7FuUF9DZM3zhtN41n6RJ6l\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribebyemail.com\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe by Email\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-35204 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-IMG_5726-001-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"William Vallicella\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-IMG_5726-001-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-IMG_5726-001-90x120.jpg 90w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-IMG_5726-001.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Dr. William Vallicella&#8217;s long-running <strong><a title=\"the Maverick Philosopher blog\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maverick Philosopher<\/a> blog<\/strong> explores questions of metaphysics, religion, politics, and culture. In this interview we discuss his relation to the Roman Catholic faith of his youth, his idea of what philosophy is all about, the concept of God, the utility of meditation, blogging, and his views on faith and reason. As always, he is interesting, direct, controversial, and charming in a manly sort of way.<\/p>\n<p>Bill&#8217;s normally strong and resonant baritone <strong>voice<\/strong> sounds a little tired here, because he and I had talked for probably five hours the day before, and something like six hours on the day of the interview &#8211; <em>before<\/em> the interview started!<\/p>\n<p>I also recorded some of our conversation on the gorgeous <strong>desert hike<\/strong> he took me on (this is Bill in his hiking attire, near the start of our hike) and I hope to present some of this in coming months.<\/p>\n<p>You can also <strong>listen t<\/strong><strong>o this episode on<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a title=\"trinities podcast @ stitcher\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/s?fid=54067&amp;refid=stpr\" target=\"_blank\">Stitcher<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0or <strong><a title=\"trinities @ itunes\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id690304581?mt=2&amp;uo=4&amp;at=11l5XS\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>\u00a0(please subscribe, rate, and review<\/strong>\u00a0us in either or both \u2013 <strong><a title=\"how to rate us at iTunes and Stitcher\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/review\/\" target=\"_blank\">directions here<\/a><\/strong>). It is also available on <a title=\"trinities podcast youtube playlist\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLMCt15e8gG-g7t7wo9MCq9KSDSsvGNcsm\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube <\/a>(scroll down \u2013 you can\u00a0<a title=\"youtube subscription link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/khanpadawan?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\">subscribe here<\/a>). If you would like to\u00a0<strong>upload audio feedback<\/strong> for possible inclusion in a future episode of this podcast,\u00a0<a title=\"upload audio feedback for the trinities podcast here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/filedrop\/filedrop_hosted.php?drop=96df5ea43b9b7c6582cb95b8c5a7259d7cd8109e0cd009d4a5ecd099cc7e64fb\" target=\"_blank\">put the audio file here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links for this episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Maverick Philosopher - the blog of Dr. William Vallicella\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maverick Philosopher blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"William Vallicella at Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_F._Vallicella\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. William Vallicella @ Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dr. Vallicella&#8217;s &#8220;<a title=\"Divine Simplicity\" href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/divine-simplicity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Divine Simplicity<\/a>&#8221; at the <em>Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Monterey Pop Festival\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ya_WVHzkNQQ\" target=\"_blank\">Monterey Pop Festival<\/a> (<a title=\"more performances not included in the original documentary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OiQN3pQ6EwM\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Yuri Gagarin\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yuri_Gagarin\" target=\"_blank\">Yuri Gagarin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"the Flying Spaghetti Monster explained\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster\" target=\"_blank\">the Flying Spaghetti monster<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Papal Infallibility\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scrollpublishing.com\/store\/Vatican-I.html\" target=\"_blank\">papal infallibility as declared at Vatican I<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Franz Brentano\" href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/brentano\/\" target=\"_blank\">Franz Brentano<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"transubstantiation explained at the Catholic Encyclopedia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/05573a.htm\" target=\"_blank\">transubstantiation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Philosopher F.H. Bradley\" href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/bradley\/\" target=\"_blank\">F.H. Bradley<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Incarnation at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/incarnat\/\" target=\"_blank\">Incarnation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Trinity: <a title=\"&quot;Trinty&quot; at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy\" href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/trinity\/\" target=\"_blank\">SEP<\/a>, <a title=\"&quot;Trinity&quot; entry by Harriet Baber\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/trinity\/\" target=\"_blank\">IEP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"D.Z. Philips\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dewi_Zephaniah_Phillips\" target=\"_blank\">D. Z. Phillips<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Wittgenstein @ Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/wittgens\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ludwig Wittgenstein<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"eliminative materialism\" href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/materialism-eliminative\/\" target=\"_blank\">eliminative materialism about the mental<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Kierkegaard at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy\" href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/kierkegaard\/\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"fideism\" href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/fideism\/\" target=\"_blank\">fideism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Desert Fathers\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desert_Fathers\" target=\"_blank\">the desert fathers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Burmese and other meditation postures\" href=\"http:\/\/zmm.mro.org\/teachings\/meditation-instructions\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Burmese meditation posture and others<\/a><\/li>\n<li>This week&#8217;s thinking music is\u00a0&#8220;<a title=\"Readers! Do you read? by Chris Zabriskie\" href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Chris_Zabriskie\/Reappear\/02_-_Readers_Do_You_Read\" target=\"_blank\">Readers! Do you read?<\/a>&#8221; by <a title=\"Chris Zabriskie at the Free Music Archive\" href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Chris_Zabriskie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Zabriskie<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. William Vallicella discusses his relation to the Roman Catholic faith of his youth, his idea of what philosophy is all about, the concept of God, the utility of meditation, blogging, and his views on faith and reason. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,56,9,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creeds","category-interview","category-philosophy","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37370,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35201\/revisions\/37370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}