Early Access - The Philosophy of Witchcraft
Added 2025-10-15 13:59:44 +0000 UTC
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Wish I could have been there today...I have the RGME Autumn Symposium to prepare for, and lots to do besides that! :( But excellent episode--thanks very much for this! :)
P. Sufenas Virius Lupus`
2025-10-17 16:22:21 +0000 UTCYet another fantastic video! I am especially curious about what you mention in the outro - that we are currently living in the dawn of yet another satanic panic era. How fascinating. I never viewed it that way but I absolutely understand what you’re referring to. Would love to hear your opinion on that, but also, I’ve deliberately leaned into your channel this past year to avoid anything related to current events.. so maybe not. Either way, wonderful video and fascinating comment about our current situation. Thank you, Justin.
brutes
2025-10-17 15:01:05 +0000 UTCWow! Hobbes, could you be any more circular. The religion doesn't exist, but women think it does (for which he offers no proof) and therefore it does (because I, Hobbes just created it) and therefore they should be punished. Reminds me of Trump and the fictional "invasion of immigrants crisis" for which the immigrants should be punished. They create the crisis and then they are heroic for punishing those whom they deemed were the crisis. No wonder we're in such good shape now, with reasoning like that.
Mary Kay Ryan
2025-10-16 18:11:53 +0000 UTCSorry, maybe my screen reader missed it, but did you post a reading list for this? I would love to do a deeper dive into some of the philosophers you mention. I recently read _This Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film_ (2025), by Payton Mccarty-Simus, which follows the backlash against feminism culturally and legally since Reagan, including an in-depth examination of the Satanic Panic. So now, in movies, we are seeing a return to those crone figures who are out to get our children and emasculate men and destroy the social order, as in "Weapons" and "Bring Her Back." I'm a grey-haired blind woman under five feet tall, so it's kind of cool to find that all I have to do is make some mystical gestures to become totally terrifying to men.
Kestrell Verlager
2025-10-16 15:24:32 +0000 UTCAfficionados of the 90s movie "Warlock" may remember a gruesome ingredient required for a potion of flight - the fat of an unbaptized child.
Anders
2025-10-16 12:21:47 +0000 UTCHere we go… evincing miraculous mettle enough for the psychedelic experience to GEBOFAL
Gabriel Elliot
2025-10-16 06:39:25 +0000 UTCVery interesting! So the philosophers opposed it but didn't always speak out against it? The pressure of the church and state are powerful disincentives. It's disheartening to see the parallels in the current world...
Jason
2025-10-16 02:33:31 +0000 UTCThe treat I needed in this hard day :D Thanks!
Ariadna
2025-10-15 19:49:47 +0000 UTCWhat a treat! Thank you Dr Sledge! You are awesome!!!!
Dragon Rue
2025-10-15 17:53:38 +0000 UTCYou have a doctorate in this subject. So, you are a Witch Doctor? ;-)
Laurent Colvin
2025-10-15 15:25:33 +0000 UTC
