Ep. 397: Federalist Papers LIVE (Part One)
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What is the purpose of this live episode and which papers are being read?
Hey folks, what you're about to hear is a live show. We haven't done live shows in a while, but if you'd like us to do one in your area and have an idea for an appropriate venue for it, reach out to us, PEL at partiallyexamined life.com. This was captured on video. If you'd like to experience it on video, check the Partially Examined Life YouTube page. It may or may not be ready by the time this goes up. Finally, I'll be teaching an online class, Key Ideas in the Philosophy of Mind, this fall. Please look to partially examined life.com. com slash class
Welcome to the Partially Examined Life. It's a podcast by some guys who are at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. This is a very special episode as we are live in the Madison, Wisconsin area at Middleton's Craftsman Table and Tap in front of a highly attractive and intelligent audience. Our question on this occasion is something like, is the American experiment working out as planned? And we read several of the Federalist papers written by James Madison and or Alexander Hamilton in seventeen eighty seven, seventeen eighty eight, as our constitution was being ratified. Specifically Federalist papers number ten, thirty-nine, fifty four, seventy, and seventy-eight.
We also read a couple of the anti federalist papers, uh, took a look at the Declaration of Independence and Frederick Douglass's fourth of July speech from eighteen fifty two. This is Mark Linsemeyer, your unitary executive for this afternoon's proceedings.
This is Seth Paskin, unchecked and unbalanced in Madison, Wisconsin.
This is Wes Allen worried about the dangers of the plural executive in where are we? Madison, Wisconsin.
It's close enough. And this is Dylan Casey reflecting on uh the times when strengths become weaknesses and that communities, organizations, and institutions are made of individuals who are the animating virtues and vices of those collective entities in Madison, Wisconsin. All right.
All right, now we're gonna go around and have all of you inter that might take a little while. Afterward, we will have a QA in the last uh half hour of this. So we're gonna we're gonna talk for maybe uh an hour and a half here. Maybe we'll take a break. We'll see. We'll see. This is uh we were advertising this is the four hundredth episode. It is I think this is uh technically three ninety-seven, but you know it's it's pretty arbitrary. We've done a lot of random recordings, sometimes calling the episodes, con sometimes not, sometimes that's a part three but it's a separate day. Anyway, we're we're well past four hundred. But w we got this far. We were here over a decade ago at this very restaurant doing our very first live show and here we are back.
For for
for episode one hundred was here.
Yep. Crazy.
Yeah.
Any any initial reflections before we get into it?
on the fact that this is a part where we improved last time was one hundred? Well I'll say four hundred is four times one hundred.
Yeah.
Whenever I tell somebody that I do a podcast with some guys I went to graduate school with and I say, Yeah, we've been doing it for seventeen years, that's when it hits me. Like I That seems like a really long time to do anything. But particularly this. And also Are you saying that with pride or with shame? I can't tell with that. No, no. I mean something like this was, you know, it was kind of like Mark said, You want to get together and do something? We were like, sure. There was no plan. There wasn't, you know, that we weren't trying to we weren't trying to do anything, we were just doing. And seventeen years later we're still doing. So I find that to be really and at that time Podcasting was kind of nascent.
So we've seen the whole we haven't changed, but the industry has changed quite a bit and the whole concept of podcasting has changed. So and now that we have AI, I think in the Q and A there's an opportunity to have some really interesting conversations about where all this is going, 'cause you might not need the four of us.
Anymore, that's true.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the purpose of this live episode and which papers are being read?
0:00–6:35
2
How do the hosts introduce the Federalist Paper 70 and the idea of a unitary executive?
6:35–22:10
3
What arguments do the speakers make about the balance of power between the president and the cabinet?
22:10–44:38
4
How is the role of the judiciary explained through Federalist Paper 78?
44:38–1:03:10
Speakers
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