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Back to SearchLesson 2.7: Consequences
Season 2 Episode 15
If the consequences are good enough, Mill forces us to confront a disturbing possibility: sometimes breaking the rules may be the moral thing to do.
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1 day, 2 hours ago
Lesson 2.6: A Fact of Reason
Season 2 Episode 14
Kant thought he had cracked the code of morality: a test that reveals whether what you do is morally permissible.
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Review of Kant’s m…3 weeks, 5 days ago
Lesson 2.5: The Thing-In-Itself
Season 2 Episode 13
What if morality itself is the best reason to believe that you are free?
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Kant and the Crisis of the Enlightenment Hume’s challenge …1 month, 2 weeks ago
Lesson 2.4: The Union Betwixt
Season 2 Episode 12
If a simple poster of human eyes or a time-crunch can hijack your moral choices without you even noticing, are you actually in the driver's seat of y…
2 months ago
Lesson 2.3: Laplace's Demon
Season 2 Episode 11
If every event has a cause, then perhaps your next thought was written into the universe long before you were born.
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The American, Fr…3 months, 3 weeks ago
Lesson 2.2: The Problem of Evil, Pt. II
Season 2 Episode 10
When the world looks cruel, every defense of God becomes a theory of human nature.
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The problem of evil argument and the two main way…5 months, 2 weeks ago
Lesson 2.1: The Problem of Evil, Part I
Season 2 Episode 9
If God is perfectly good, then this world demands an explanation—or a surrender of belief.
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The relationship between intellectualism…6 months, 4 weeks ago
Lesson 1.8: The Ace of Spades
Season 2 Episode 8
If we can’t prove whether God exists, should we treat belief like a gamble—and choose the option with the best payoff?
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The philosop…7 months, 2 weeks ago
Lesson 2: Foundational Fluency with AI
Episode 26
Stop treating AI like a search engine and start using it as a "cognitive architect" to bridge the gap between just having information and actually bu…
8 months ago
Lesson 1.7: The Great Erosion
Season 2 Episode 7
During the Age of Enlightenment, the tools of reason that had been used to support faith for centuries began to erode the very foundations of religio…
8 months ago