Philosophy and Sanity

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In this episode, I take a look at a recent article claiming that continental philosophers are “bad at arguing” — not logical enough, not clear enough, and fundamentally incapable of making a coherent point. I think the piece gets part of the diagnosis right, but for the wrong reasons. Many continental thinkers aren’t trying to write in a straightforward analytic style — not because they’re incompe...

Gnosticism sounds like an ancient, obscure heresy—and in some ways it is. But the Gnostic worldview never really disappeared. It just changed shape. In this episode, I break down what Gnosticism actually is: its view of God, humanity, salvation, and morality—and why it’s not just false, but spiritually dangerous. We’ll explore how Gnosticism flips Christianity upside down, offering salvation witho...

What if one of the oldest heresies in Church history never really died — but just changed names? In this episode, we explore what Gnosticism actually is: not just a strange ancient idea, but a worldview that still shapes how modern people think about truth, identity, and salvation. We’ll define Gnosticism in its original context, trace its development into esoteric and Hermetic forms, and uncover...

📌 Episode Summary: In this episode, we dig into the deeper structure of liberalism—not just as a political philosophy, but as a worldview that has slowly hollowed itself out from the inside. Too many contemporary critiques either blame Marxism for everything or try to rescue classical liberalism as a lost ideal. But both approaches miss a critical piece: progressivism—an ideological bridge betwee...

In this episode, I respond to feedback from my last show— regarding my thesis on the left—and expand on a theme that’s drawn strong interest: the so-called “woke right.” I don’t think that’s the right label. What we’re seeing isn’t “wokeness” on the right—it’s something older, stranger, and in some ways more dangerous. We’ll explore: Whether the left is consistent within its own worldview What dis...

In this episode of Philosophy and Sanity, we take a step back from heavy theory to explore a foundational idea in a more accessible way. Starting from the common accusation that “the other side” is just being hypocritical, George shows how the problem runs much deeper: we are facing two fundamentally different visions of reality itself. We’ll walk through how these differences aren’t just politica...

In this episode of Philosophy and Sanity, we dive into the strange, underexplored figure of Jakob Böhme—a 17th-century mystic whose ideas may have quietly shaped the trajectory of modern philosophy, theology, and even postmodern ideology. Though often forgotten or ignored in standard philosophical education, Böhme’s influence can be felt in thinkers like Hegel and movements like liberal Christiani...

In this episode, I explore a growing trend I’ve noticed in contemporary critiques of Western esotericism—namely, the tendency to collapse Christianity into the very Gnostic or Hermetic tradition it has historically stood against. My main focus is on Alexander McGee’s Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition, a dense but thought-provoking work that seems to underlie or influence other thinkers like James L...

In this episode, we dive into C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man, a critique of modern education, morality, and the collapse of objective value. Lewis warns that by rejecting objective morality in favor of subjective feelings, society risks creating a generation of “men without chests”—people without the virtue necessary for moral judgment. However, Lewis’s diagnosis, while prescient, falls short i...

In this episode, I wrestle with a major tension in modern thought: Can we salvage the concept of worldview without falling into Kantian assumptions? I explore Kant’s influence on modern philosophy, the nature of worldview as pre-knowledge, and whether worldview thinking is inherently subjective or can be grounded in Catholic Christianity. I also discuss the noetic effects of sin, the dangers of...

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