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Podchaser Interview of Mark Linsenmayer: Partially Examined Life and Nakedly Examined Music
Morgan DeLisle, writer for the PodChaser "Behind the Streams Blog," interviewed Mark for a feature of our podcasts. Learn about the origins of PEL an…
7 years, 7 months ago
Episode 209: Francis Fukuyama on Identity Politics (Part Two: Discussion)
Continuing on Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment (2018).
Fukuyama recommends a "creedal national identity" as a solution…
7 years, 7 months ago
Episode 209: Guest Francis Fukuyama on Identity Politics (Part One)
Talking to the author about Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment (2018).
What motivates people? Frank points to thymos, th…
7 years, 8 months ago
Episode 208: Epicurus on Seeking Pleasure (Part Two)
More on the ethics-related fragments of Epicurus and accounts by Martha Nussbaum and Tim O'Keefe.
What would a purely therapeutic philosophy consist …
7 years, 8 months ago
Episode 208: Epicurus on Seeking Pleasure (Part One)
On the extant fragments of Epicurus (341–270 BCE) dealing with ethics, including his "Letter to Menoceus," "The Principal Doctrines," and "The Vatica…
7 years, 8 months ago
Episode 207: Herder on Art Appreciation (Part Two)
Continuing on Johann Gottfried von Herder's "The Causes of Sunken Taste among the Different Peoples in Whom It Once Blossomed" (1775), then moving to…
7 years, 8 months ago
Episode 207: Herder on Art Appreciation (Part One)
On Johann Gottfried von Herder's "The Causes of Sunken Taste among the Different Peoples in Whom It Once Blossomed" (1775), "On the Influence of the …
7 years, 8 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep 206 Lucretius's Epicurean Physics (Part Three)
Mark and Wes go into more textual detail re. Lucretius's take on atomism and the metaphysical and epistemological problems it entails. Start with Par…
7 years, 9 months ago
Episode 206: Lucretius's Epicurean Physics (Part Two)
More on Lucretius's poem about Epicurean science: On the Nature of Things from the first century BCE.
We talk more about how macroscopic phenomena ar…
7 years, 9 months ago
Episode 206: Lucretius's Epicurean Physics (Part One)
On Lucretius's poem about Epicurean science: On the Nature of Things a.k.a. De Rerum Natura from the 1st century BC.
How does the world work? Lucreti…
7 years, 9 months ago