Welcome to Cryptosophy! This podcast is hosted by Max and Doyle. On this podcast, we are searching for hidden wisdom in the literature of the Western tradition and from interviews of specialists from diverse backgrounds.
Great Works #10 - Orwell’s Animal Farm. In this episode, Max and I restart the Great Works series of the Cryptosophy podcast three years after our inaugural Great Works discussion on Homer’s Iliad.
Hi everybody, Max and I are excited to announce a new series called the Cryptosophy Radio Hour! This will be a net new series that we'll run in addition to the Cryptosophy series, The Specialists, and The Great Works. During this series, we'll spend about one hour listening to some great music and talking about them together. For licensing reasons, this series will ONLY be available on Spotify. Expect to see the first episode dropping later this week! We'll be listening to Sick Boy by the Chainsmokers, Holding On To You by Twenty One Pilots, and Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youths.
Welcome to Cryptosophy #10 - What is Spiritual Exercise? Enter the Dialogue. In this episode, Max and I discuss the nature of spiritual exercise and attempt to give it a rigorous definition. We speak a little bit about Exodus 90, a spiritual exercise that both of us are currently undertaking. The account presented here is arguably non-religious and seeks to establish spiritual exercise as an activity sourced in the first principles of Western culture. Join us for a dialogue that sweeps from the Apollo's Oracle at Delphi to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. Maxims of the Oracle at Delphi Know thyself Nothing to excess Surety brings ruin ---
Welcome to Cryptosophy #9! The third episode of 2021 and the first in which Max and Doyle engage in a search for hidden wisdom. In this episode, we discuss the potential evils and threats of hyperscale clouds and social media. In particular, we dive into Parler's de-platforming and the potential abuses of advertising psycho-technology.
Join Doyle and Noah Antony Widoff on a conversation from astrology to Communism to the end of history and the ethics of hope. With a simple belated Merry Christmas text as the jumping off point, Doyle and Noah dive deeply into theological and philosophical positions that undergird the very fabric of human consciousness. Noah is the host of the Assembly of Silence Radio Hour, taijireality YouTube Channel, and author of the taijireality Substack.
In this Episode Max explores the hidden wisdom contained in the world of Junior College Baseball. The interviewee, Jp Fasone, fell in love with baseball as a player, and continues to live out this passion through coaching. This episode steps into the world of a tiny junior college baseball program. Perhaps most strikingly, this episode explores how a program with only three coaches, and no other staff, coaches with an incredible amount of technological, scientific, and leadership sophistication. Coach Fasone: https://sites.google.com/view/coachfasone/ Cryptosophy: https://www.cryptosophy.fm/ Thank you for listening!
In this episode, Doyle welcomes guest Martin "Harrison" McNulty to discuss the spiritual fate of the West and Christianity. The discussion will consider the current disorder of Western institutions namely the Academy, the Church, and the State--Trump's recent declaration of a State of Emergency will serve as the starting point. If all goes as planned, the discussion will incorporate an intellectual heritage that include Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Jordan Peterson. It was Heidegger who announced that "Being" even though its meaning is vaporous was the "spiritual fate of the West."
In this episode, Max explores the hidden wisdom of the most under appreciated medical profession: nursing.
Max and Doyle experiment with freeform podcasting, hoping to hone the craft of discussion on air. We discuss everything from Europe mass immigration problem, to the Intellectual Dark Web, bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and the #MeToo movement. Thanks for tuning into another episode of Cryptosophy!
In today's episode of Cryptosophy, Max and Doyle duke it out in an attempt to find some hidden wisdom from debate.
Max interviews Nick on his experience as an EMT. They discuss dealing with gore, mental health patients, desensitization, death, and a variety of other topics.
Max and Tony discuss a variety of topics around nursing.
In this Episode Max interviews Amin Salah on his experience of growing up in the Middle East and Moving to the United States.
In this episode of Cryptosophy, Max and Doyle engage Peterson's thoughts and his dramatic effect on their lives. On the docket includes Peterson's use of the archetypes, the epistemological debate between Peterson and Sam Harris, and the ethical framework Peterson's philosophy of "cleaning your room."
In this episode, Max interviews Doyle about his life, philosophical education, outlook on politics, religion, contemporary music, and everything in between. Doyle urges all listeners to be contrarian, attempt to synthesize seemingly contradictory worldviews, and to live life to the fullest.
What is love? The various speeches in this dialogue attempt to answer this question, culminating in Diotima's claim that love is the desire to eternally contemplate and behold the form of beauty. Socrates then teaches his friends that philosophy supplies the means to do so. In this episode of Cryptosophy, Max and Doyle search for wisdom in one of Plato's most famous dialogues.
The Nicomachean Ethics is a deep psychological account of the role of emotion, virtue, and society in the pursuit of the good life. In this podcast, Max and Doyle reflect on Aristotle's virtue ethics and discuss how it contrasts with the popular morality of today's world. Of all the text discusses thus far on Cryptosophy, both Doyle and Max agreed that this text above all other should be read continually.
In this podcast, Doyle interviews Max, inquiring about his life and trying to learn as much as he can from him. At Cryptosophy, we believe that all persons are sources of hidden wisdom if only you have the patience to ask the most important questions and really listen to them. Max shared details of his religious tribulations, encountering Nietzsche, and writing his undergraduate thesis on Wittgenstein.
In this episode, Max and Doyle are joined by Nate, a self-proclaimed Platonist, to dive deep into the last half of the Republic. The messianic power of philosophy to save and direct us is a key take away from the text and this discussion.
Plato's Republic is often one of the first texts of philosophy that novices encounter. Unfortunately, sometimes first-time readers miss the point. The secret of the Republic is the narrative arc beginning with the first word of the dialogue. In this episode, Doyle and Max are joined by JP for a discussion of the first half of the dialogue.
Oedipus Rex is upheld by Aristotle as the archetype of Greek tragedy. In this episode, Max and Doyle reflect on the three surviving Theban plays by Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
In this episode, Max and Doyle reflect on the first of the three great tragedians: Aeschylus. The Oresteia is the only surviving complete trilogy of 5th-century Greek tragedy. The trilogy is composed of the Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, and the Eumenides. We reflect on the nature of sin and tragic missing the mark--particularly on the phenomenon of repeating the sins of our forebears. We discovered that only by abdicating the 'eye for an eye' sense of justice can we overcome the sins of our past and move forward.
Doyle and Max going deep on the metaphysical and psychological significance of Hesiod's account of creation. We also did a bit of compare/contrast with the myth of creation in Genesis.
The first episode of Cryptosophy! Max and Doyle sketch their project--working through the Great Books of the Western tradition, starting with Homer's Iliad.
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