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Ep. 313: Mozi's Political Ethics (Part One)

On selections of the central Mohist text, from ca. 430 B.C.E., with guest Tzuchien Tho.

Mozi claims that we should regard everyone on the same level …

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PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap Late March 2023

Mark, Seth, and Dylan talk about what makes for a fitting tribute for those departed, mourning customs, how Daoism has personally affected us, and mo…

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Ep. 312: The Dao De Jing on Virtue (Part Two)

Concluding our discussion of the Daodejing with guest Theo Brooks. We cover some more ambiguous cosmological passages and return to political philoso…

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Ep. 312: The Dao De Jing on Virtue (Part One)

For our second full discussion on the Daodejing by Laozi, we talk about the actions and attitudes that characterize the Daoist sage. With Theo Brooks…

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PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap Early March 2023

Mark, Wes, Dylan, and Seth reflect on the interpretive challenges of the Daodejing, and in the full Nightcap, take on the question of whether philoso…

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Ep. 311: Understanding the Dao De Jing (Part Two)

Continuing on the central Daoist text with guest Theodore Brooks. We explore practical vs. metaphysical interpretations of the Dao, the relation of t…

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Ep. 311: Understanding the Dao De Jing (Part One)

On the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) by Laozi (ca. 500 BCE), with guest Theodore Brooks.

We talk about the wildly different, interpretive translations of …

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PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap February 2023

Mark, Wes, and Seth anticipate our Dao De Jing and Dostoevsky recordings and talk about Russian literature. In the full episode, we also talk about c…

3 years, 8 months ago

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