The Most Important Question | The Culture War Explained | Episode 1

The Case for Realism    • The Case for Realism | Episode 9   Dr. Nathan Jacobs provides an overview on realism and nominalism, tracing their history from Plato to the present day. He then explains how these ideas relate to contemporary cultural divisions. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0hSskUt... Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Instagram:   / thenathanjacobspodcast   Substack: https://nathanajacobs.substack.com/ Website: https://www.nathanajacobs.com/ Academia: https://vanderbilt.academia.edu/Natha... 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:13 What are realism and nominalism? 00:05:14 The Pre-Socratic philosophers 00:07:48 Plato’s extreme realism 00:12:35 Raphael’s School of Athens portrayal of Plato and Aristotle 00:19:18 Aristotle’s moderate realism 00:24:30 The role of God in Aristotle’s view of realism 00:27:33 Realism in the Stoics, Middle Platonists, & Neoplatonists 00:31:59 Philosophy vs. theology 00:35:19 Realism in Judaism (Philo of Alexandria) 00:36:57 Realism in the Christian East 00:40:16 Realism in the Latin West (St. Augustine) 00:43:23 How realism fell out of favor 00:49:24 Reexamining the past using reason 00:54:14 Nominalism takes center stage: scientism, empiricism, and skepticism 01:02:43 The scramble to solve skepticism: idealism in Berkeley, Kant, and Hegel 01:07:46 Hegel’s dialectic and the emergence of leftist Hegelians 01:12:45 The demise of morality 1:16:04 Materialism and free will 1:17:08 The rise of Nietzsche and the will to power 1:20:59 Nominalism as a path to postmodernity and authoritarianism 1:24:36 The fruits of realism and nominalism 1:25:43 Four levels of discourse 1:34:38 Transgenderism 1:37:02 Abortion 1:38:42 Homosexuality 1:40:23 Feminism 1:42:20 Locke vs. Hobbes theory of rights 1:47:57 Conclusion