Very excited to have a Podcast from you to look forward to again. Your stoic meditations was part of my regular morning routine while preparing for work.
True I may think gold is beautiful and you may not. However, I may not deny that gold is nonreactive [noble] and be correct. And such incorrect thoughts are, in practice, very harmful.
I believe it is axiomatic that in ANY intellectual inquiry, rigor is essentiall. There is NO case where 'a thorough examination' IS NOT required and I believe that to claim the contrary IS intellectually dishonest and an open road to error.
I notice that you do not include ;noble; among your list of human judgements about gold which are not ;facts about gold. How can you say that on the one hand 'bviously such judgments are rooted in the objective characteristics of gold" and on the other that 'they are not made necessary by such characteristics'? This seems to me a contradiction, I would say that the human attribution of ;nobility' to gold is necessitated by its physical characteristic of nonreactivity as would be ;impressiveness; and 'usefulness'. What is meant by 'we can change the way we think about facts'?
It is true 'that facts about the world are independent of human judgement' however, if you are going to choose gold to make that point, it seems to me that you should describe gold as completely as possible and certainly make reference to its singular lack of reactivity,
The terms I used 'inertness' and nobility' are 'quasi-subjective' hawever they arise from the atomic structure of gold in which every position in which an electron could exist is filleed. Perhaps I should have written 'Atoms of gold have no valence. This is a strictly physical characteristic. The result is that Gold does not rust or even take on a patina. In the experience of humans for most of their history this was an impressive and quality That Massimo chose to ignore this physical quality of non-reactivity when discussing gold in this context troubles me.
Very excited to have a Podcast from you to look forward to again. Your stoic meditations was part of my regular morning routine while preparing for work.
Such important thought provocation, always but especially in our current world of cultural confusion and conflict. Thank you 🙏🏼
True I may think gold is beautiful and you may not. However, I may not deny that gold is nonreactive [noble] and be correct. And such incorrect thoughts are, in practice, very harmful.
I believe it is axiomatic that in ANY intellectual inquiry, rigor is essentiall. There is NO case where 'a thorough examination' IS NOT required and I believe that to claim the contrary IS intellectually dishonest and an open road to error.
That is why I accuse you of dishonesty.
I notice that you do not include ;noble; among your list of human judgements about gold which are not ;facts about gold. How can you say that on the one hand 'bviously such judgments are rooted in the objective characteristics of gold" and on the other that 'they are not made necessary by such characteristics'? This seems to me a contradiction, I would say that the human attribution of ;nobility' to gold is necessitated by its physical characteristic of nonreactivity as would be ;impressiveness; and 'usefulness'. What is meant by 'we can change the way we think about facts'?
Thank you for the chapter, very insightful.
The podcust plan sounds fascinating, looking forward to next episods.
Technical requests:
1. If possible to increase the volume of the recording.
2. Is the podcast available on other platforms? Personally I'm using Google Podcasts.
Exceptional 1st podcast!
It is true 'that facts about the world are independent of human judgement' however, if you are going to choose gold to make that point, it seems to me that you should describe gold as completely as possible and certainly make reference to its singular lack of reactivity,
The terms I used 'inertness' and nobility' are 'quasi-subjective' hawever they arise from the atomic structure of gold in which every position in which an electron could exist is filleed. Perhaps I should have written 'Atoms of gold have no valence. This is a strictly physical characteristic. The result is that Gold does not rust or even take on a patina. In the experience of humans for most of their history this was an impressive and quality That Massimo chose to ignore this physical quality of non-reactivity when discussing gold in this context troubles me.
I missed that intro jingle! :D
It’s great to hear someone speak on logic. Grazie!
Why when relating the characteristics of gold did you not mention its 'inertness' or 'nobility'?
It sounds like you've got a plan. Any idea how many episodes you intend to include in this season?
My perpetual calendar is marked to start each week with wisdom and coffee. Thank you. :)
Can't wait to hear more episodes :) thank you!