{"id":40099,"date":"2018-04-03T08:49:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T12:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=40099"},"modified":"2018-04-03T08:57:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T12:57:19","slug":"podcast-221-thomas-reid-on-human-prejudices-and-common-causes-of-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-221-thomas-reid-on-human-prejudices-and-common-causes-of-error\/","title":{"rendered":"podcast 221 &#8211; Thomas Reid on human prejudices and common causes of error"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7071\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-40099-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities221.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities221.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities221.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\/trinities221.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=40099-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities221.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"trinities221.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=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-40100\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/36973ee92bad4a23cb01f0f4fb3afa46-450x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/36973ee92bad4a23cb01f0f4fb3afa46-450x249.jpg 450w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/36973ee92bad4a23cb01f0f4fb3afa46-768x426.jpg 768w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/36973ee92bad4a23cb01f0f4fb3afa46.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>In this podcast, we hear the end of Essay VI of Thomas Reid&#8217;s <em>Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man<\/em> (1785): Chapter 8<strong> &#8220;Of Prejudices, the Causes of Error.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following a scheme concocted by Francis Bacon (1561\u20131626), Reid divides prejudices into <strong>four classes of &#8220;idols&#8221;<\/strong>: <em>idola tribus, idola specus, idola fori, <\/em>and <em>idola theatri<\/em>. But don&#8217;t worry &#8211; he explains each group without recourse to any more Latin, and he gives examples where needed.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Trinity<\/strong> is only mentioned once here, in a illustration of misguided speculation about music &#8211; but it is plausible that Reid had Trinity theories and other theological matters at several points in this chapter. Do you agree? And do you think that this scheme is relevant to critical thinking about competing Trinity and Incarnation theories?<\/p>\n<p><em>Links for this episode:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/earlymoderntexts.com\/authors\/reid\">Reid\u2019s books with language slightly updated by Dr. Jonathan Bennett<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Thomas Reid <a href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/reid\/\">@SEP<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Reid\">@Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/francis-bacon\/#Ido\">Francis Bacon<\/a><\/li>\n<li>This week&#8217;s thinking music is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccmixter.org\/files\/basematic\/34457\">Zest<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/ccmixter.org\/people\/basematic\">Basematic<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw&amp;t=34s\">Key &amp; Peele &#8211; Substitute Teacher<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If God made us to form true beliefs, why do we form false beliefs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40100,"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":[16,9,57,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-philosophy","category-podcast","category-theories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40099","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=40099"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40108,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40099\/revisions\/40108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}