
Making Footprints Not Blueprints
Philosophy Podcasts
Welcome to “Making Footprints not Blueprints”, a regular podcast about matters philosophical and religious. My name is Andrew James Brown and, despite being an atheistically inclined free-thinker, I’m also the minister to the Unitarian Church in the city of Cambridge, UK.The title of this podcast is borrowed from the philosopher Herbert Fingarette (1921-2018) who, in his book, “The Self in Transformation” (Basic Books, New York 1963), offered us studies that were “outcomes rather than realised objectives” which were offered to the reader as an encouragement to make “intellectual footprints, not blueprints.” This podcast tries to proceed in a similar fashion and takes seriously an insight of the poet A. R. Ammons who felt that true human freedom only comes when we have understood that full scope always eludes our grasp, that there is no finality of vision, that we have perceived nothing completely and that, therefore, and thankfully, tomorrow a new walk is a new walk.
Location:
United Kingdom
Genres:
Philosophy Podcasts
Description:
Welcome to “Making Footprints not Blueprints”, a regular podcast about matters philosophical and religious. My name is Andrew James Brown and, despite being an atheistically inclined free-thinker, I’m also the minister to the Unitarian Church in the city of Cambridge, UK.The title of this podcast is borrowed from the philosopher Herbert Fingarette (1921-2018) who, in his book, “The Self in Transformation” (Basic Books, New York 1963), offered us studies that were “outcomes rather than realised objectives” which were offered to the reader as an encouragement to make “intellectual footprints, not blueprints.” This podcast tries to proceed in a similar fashion and takes seriously an insight of the poet A. R. Ammons who felt that true human freedom only comes when we have understood that full scope always eludes our grasp, that there is no finality of vision, that we have perceived nothing completely and that, therefore, and thankfully, tomorrow a new walk is a new walk.
Twitter:
@caute
Language:
English
Contact:
07477462110
Email:
caute.brown@gmail.com
S06 #07 - Unplanned obsolescence and how, perhaps, to avoid it . . . - A thought for the day
Duration:00:13:00
S06 #06 - An interfaith, Buddhisto-Christian, consequence of Pentecost - A thought for the day
Duration:00:12:29
S06 #05 - Not in the saving, but in the spending well of your precious life will you find your treasure, and there your heart will also be - A thought for the day
Duration:00:10:27
S06 Bonus Episode - Free Religion is bowing to each other
Duration:00:09:17
S06 #04 - “Priests of stillness”—on first learning meditation from fenceposts along the Essex coast - A thought for the day
Duration:00:11:38
S06 #03 - Circuses but no bread—a political-theological meditation offered on the weekend of the Coronation of King Charles III - A thought for the day
Duration:00:13:01
S06 #02 - God is a DJ - A thought for the day
Duration:00:13:22
S06 #01 - Safer than the known way - A thought for the day
Duration:00:11:32
S05 - Bonus Episode - A community standing, perhaps, on the cusp of becoming “freethinking mystics with hands” - Final Episode of Season 5
Duration:00:11:31
S05 #27 - What happens (to Easter) when we can no longer rely on spring? - A thought for the day
Duration:00:12:00
S05 #26 - There is only mother love all the way down—Mothering Sunday - A thought for the day
Duration:00:09:56
S05 #25 - Spiritual Values and Negative Capability - A thought for the day
Duration:00:13:01
S05 #24 - Pragmatism is true, but doesn’t work—a lesson for liberal, free religion to learn - A thought for the day
Duration:00:13:04
S05 #23 - The End and the Beginning—On the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine - A thought for the day
Duration:00:10:13
S05 #22 - Living lovingly in hypernormal times - A thought for the day
Duration:00:11:48
S05 #21 - What Mary Oliver’s black bear can tell us about the earthquake in Turkey and Syria - A thought for the day
Duration:00:10:36
S05 #20 - Where is the life in the place in which others are putting us?—A call confidently to express a Free Religion - A thought for the day
Duration:00:11:00
S05 #19 - Complete spiritual freedom is the great action that follows the clearing of decks - A thought for the day on the meaning and lessons of Unitarian history
Duration:00:10:39
S05 #18 - Liberal, free religion—Catching moving trains or metaphysical hitchhiking? - A thought for the day
Duration:00:10:10
S05 #17 - Recovering the courage to do the “vision thing”—a pressing issue facing all modern, liberal, free religious communities - A thought for the day
Duration:00:09:04