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
S07 #27 - On wobbly Jenga towers, church governance, yeast, broken bread, communion, metamorphosis and a modern, free and inquiring religion - A thought for the day
Duration:00:12:20
S07 #26 - Deep and again deep - The gateway to all mystery . . . A meditation on the total eclipse of the sun, 2024 - A thought for the day
Duration:00:13:31
S07 #25 - Jjiyū Shūkyō (a creative, free spirituality) as a Silken Tent - A thought for the day
Duration:00:13:32
S07 #24 - To touch again the finely woven, seamless cloth of joy & woe — an Easter Sunday meditation - A thought for the day
Duration:00:12:17
S07 #23 - Bringing into being an ethics of motion — A meditation on John Ford’s 1950 western, “Wagon Master” - A thought for the day
Duration:00:13:50
S07 #22 - It’s always possible to embody truth, even when, technically, we’re not able to tell it - A thought for the day
Duration:00:12:04
S07 #21 - What an apprenticeship in tailoring might tell us about the making of a creative, free spirituality or religion . . . - A thought for the day
Duration:00:13:31
S07 #20 - Will ready-made religions ever really fit us properly? - A thought for the day
Duration:00:11:13
S07 #19 A gentle plea for some basket-weaving and aphanipoiesis - A thought for the day
Duration:00:14:22
S07 #18 - The sustaining sea and the need to take even strokes in these very uneven times - A thought for the day
Duration:00:10:40
S07 #17 - How new are you? - A thought for the day
Duration:00:09:14
S07 #16 - The new parable of “Mr Bates vs. The Post Office” - A thought for the day
Duration:00:13:47
S07 #15 - A mystery is something in which I am myself involved - A thought for the day
Duration:00:11:52
S07 #14 - A Small- Sized Mystery — A New Year’s Eve meditation - A thought for the day
Duration:00:10:54
S07 #12 - The Quantum Manger — A Christmas Eve Meditation - A thought for the day
Duration:00:14:02
S07 #13 - “The Eternal Buddha is no one else but the Eternal Christ” — A Christmas Day Meditation - A thought for the day
Duration:00:09:37
S07 Bonus Episode - The Japanese Yuniterian [sic] tradition . . . or the dove that ventured outside
Duration:00:15:56
S07 #11 - Beyond the binary of supply and demand — bringing citizens, business and industry together through a deep, but simple, creative, free spirituality - A thought for the day
Duration:00:12:14
S07 #10 - Embracing climate adaptation positives in our settings in good company - A thought for the day
Duration:00:14:01
S07 #09 - On freeing ourselves from being held captive by a particular picture of history - A thought for the day
Duration:00:14:01