About this episode

The episode discusses the dangers of dogmatism and the importance of recognizing uncertainty for mental well-being.

Drawing from Tao Te Ching 71, we discuss the ways in which dogmatism can lead to madness but recognizing truths, even the truth that we do not know things with certainty, can bring us to a place of sanity. We talk about a poet named Theodore Beza who traded in his love of classical poetry and creating new versions of it himself to concocting a contorted and arguably monstrous dogmatism known as hyper-Calvinism (and the weird dogma of supralapsarianism). If you are in need of letting go of unhealthy ideologies and allegiances, this may be just the episode for you.

People in this episode

Hosts: Stacie Mallinson, Jeff Mallinson

Topics covered

• dogmatism
• Taoism
• mental health
• ideologies
• poetry
• Calvinism

Keywords

• dogmatism
• Tao Te Ching
• Theodore Beza
• hyper-Calvinism
• mental health
• ideologies
• poetry

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Tao Te Ching

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