Categoria: Podcast 2025

In this second episode of “Philosophy for All,” we analyse what a sign is and its difference from a symbol. Both sign and symbol point us to a reality beyond themselves. The sign and the symbol, without which we cannot live, are not the reality they point us to. Paul Ricœur (1913–2005), a French Philosopher, tells us that idolatry occurs when a symbol is mistaken for the reality. Idolatry, we can add, can also occur when the reality is mistaken for the symbol and everything becomes merely symbolic.

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With this first episode, we start a series on “Philosophy for All,” investigating what Metaphysics is. In this first lesson, we focus on the perception of reality with the help of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. How do we know what is real? How do we know that the reality we perceive is the final reality and not a mere appearance? What is real and what is apparent? Man is made for what is real and lasting: the ultimate reality.

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