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Ep. 257: Locke Against Innate Ideas (Part Two)
Continuing on Book I of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689).
We consider Locke's arguments that since there are no universally a…
5 years, 10 months ago
Ep. 257: Locke Against Innate Ideas (Part One)
On Book I of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689).
How do we know things? Locke thought all knowledge comes from experience, and …
5 years, 10 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 256: Kropotkin's Anarchist Communism (Part Two)
Mark, Wes, Dylan, Seth get into specific points and textual passages from Peter Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread (1892).
In this preview, we start b…
5 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 256: Kropotkin's Anarchist Communism (Part One)
On Peter Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread (1892).
If we want an egalitarian society, do we need the state to accomplish this? Kropotkin says no, tha…
5 years, 11 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 255: Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" (Part Two)
If you'd like to hear more of the discussion on Sun Tzu that we started in part one, you'll need to go sign up at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support.
…5 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 255: Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" (Part One)
On the Chinese military treatise from around the 5th century BCE.
How does a philosopher wage war? The best kind of war can be won without fighting. …
5 years, 11 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 254: Michael Sandel Against Meritocracy (Part Two)
Mark, Wes, Dylan and Seth continue the discussion on The Tyranny of Merit to talk further about how social values can and do change, and whether thes…
5 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 254: Michael Sandel Interview: Against Meritocracy (Part One)
On The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? (2020).
Do people get the wealth and status they deserve? And if they did, would that be g…
6 years ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 253: Leibniz on the Problem of Evil (Part Two)
If you'd like to hear more of the discussion on Gottfried Leibniz's Theodicy that we started in part one, you'll need to go sign up at partiallyexami…
6 years ago
Ep. 253: Leibniz on the Problem of Evil (Part One)
On Gottfried Leibniz's Theodicy (1710).
Why does God allow so many bad things to happen? Leibniz thought that by the definition of God, whatever He c…
6 years ago