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Podcast Profile: The Cunning of Geist

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81 episodes
2020 to 2024
Median: 24 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

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This podcast explores philosophy, psychology, and science through a recurring Hegelian lens, treating Hegel’s ideas not only as historical doctrine but as a framework for interpreting mind, nature, society, and reality itself. Across the discussions, the host returns frequently to core Hegelian concepts—dialectics, sublation, freedom, recognition, and the logic of being/nothing/becoming—using them to connect metaphysics to questions about human development, ethics, and the direction of history.

A major thread is the relationship between consciousness and the physical world. The podcast examines debates over materialism versus idealism, the “hard problem” of consciousness, and whether meaning, purpose, or mind-like qualities are fundamental features of the cosmos. These topics are often developed in conversation with psychology, especially Carl Jung’s models of the psyche, archetypes, personality types, synchronicity, and shadow dynamics, alongside philosophical figures such as Peirce, Bergson, Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, and Plantinga. The result is an ongoing inquiry into whether there is a deep unity between mental and physical reality and how that unity might be understood without reducing experience to mere mechanism.

Another recurring theme is religion and theology considered philosophically: the coherence of a creator God, the possibility of purpose in evolution, theodicy and the problem of evil, and interpretations of Christian symbolism, often framed by Hegel’s notion of Spirit (Geist) and process-oriented views of becoming. The show also engages modern scientific and speculative questions—cosmology, the Big Bang and cyclical universe models, the Fermi paradox, and the prospects and limits of artificial intelligence—asking what these developments imply about rationality, consciousness, and humanity’s place in nature.

Social and political concerns appear as applications of these ideas, including free speech and platform power, polarization and “tribalism” in the internet age, race and the legacy of Enlightenment ideals, and war and historical change. Practical dimensions are present as well, with philosophical concepts used to think about personal agency, achievement, meditation, and forming a deliberate philosophy of life.