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The Joy of Resistance: Ep. 8 - Meet The New Boss
Season 19 Episode 8
There are many critiques of the power of ideology to shape our perception of the world and freeze us in a sense of powerlessness. However, less discu…
9 hours ago
Taoism: Ep. 16 - Truth and Goodness
Season 18 Episode 16
In Chapter two of Chuang Tzu, we read a clear questioning of the value of ‘Truth’ and the inability of the language to reliable capture the reality w…
3 days, 9 hours ago
Nihilistic Materialism - Ep. 7
Season 1 Episode 7
NIHILISTIC MATERIALISM
That American culture is materialistic is an accurate but often unhelpful distinction as it is our particular kind of materiali…
5 days, 9 hours ago
The Joy of Resistance: Ep. 7 - The Students are Marching
Season 19 Episode 7
As if just to illustrate the ideas we’ve been exploring, the students of France are out on the streets to protest the latest French government budget…
1 week ago
Taoism: Ep. 15 - Forget Balance
Season 18 Episode 15
The popular American conception of balance associated with Taoism is almost entirely misleading and very probably anti-thetical to the core principle…
1 week, 3 days ago
Q & A - American Individualism - Ep. 6
Season 1 Episode 6
Q & A - AMERICAN INDIVIDUALISM
Wes and Jeremy take questions from listeners on Lecture III: American Individualism
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1 week, 5 days ago
The Joy of Resistance: Ep. 6 - Subjects of History
Season 19 Episode 6
Camus’ critique of Romanticism is grounded in a belief in the contingency of human existence. We are not isolated heroes who can, or perhaps cannot, …
2 weeks ago
Taoism: Ep. 14 - The Problem is Other People
Season 18 Episode 14
Chapter 14 of Chuan Tzu presents a Taoist reflection on perhaps the single vexing problem in our lives - the other people. Taoism argues for a natura…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
American Individualism - Ep. 5
Season 1 Episode 5
AMERICAN INDIVIDUALISM:
This lecture explores the evolution of the American conception of the individual and why it has become so dominant within Amer…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
The Joy of Resistance: Ep. 5 - Imaginations Under Siege
Season 19 Episode 5
Following on last episode's discussion of the philosophical critiques of how commoditization influences our world, I thought it would be worth taking…
3 weeks ago