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PREMIUM-Episode 80: Heidegger on our Existential Situation
On Martin Heidegger's "Letter on Humanism" (1949).
What's our place in the world? What is it, really, to be human? Heidegger thought that being human…
13 years, 1 month ago
Precognition of Ep. 80: Heidegger
A short summary of Heidegger's "Essay on Humanism," read by Seth Paskin.
13 years, 1 month ago
PREMIUM-PEL Ep 79: Heraclitus on Understanding the World
Eva Brann discusses her book The Logos of Heraclitus (2011). What is the world like, and how can we understand it? Heraclitus thinks that the answer …
13 years, 2 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 78: Ayn Rand on Living Rationally
On Rand's Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (1967) and "The Objectivist Ethics" (1961).
First Rand grounds everyday human knowledge, largely b…
13 years, 3 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 77: Santayana on the Appreciation of Beauty
On George Santayana's The Sense of Beauty (1896).
What are we saying when we call something "beautiful?" Are we pointing out an objective quality tha…
13 years, 3 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 76: Deleuze on What Philosophy Is
On Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's What Is Philosophy? (1991). How is philosophy different from science and art? What's the relationship between …
13 years, 4 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 75: Lacan & Derrida Criticize Poe's "The Purloined Letter"
On Jacques Lacan's "Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter'" (1956), Jacques Derrida's "The Purveyor of Truth" (1975), and other essays in the collection T…
13 years, 5 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 74: Jacques Lacan's Psychology
On Bruce Fink's The Lacanian Subject (1996) and Lacan's "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experie…
13 years, 5 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 73: Why Do Philosophy? (And What Is It?)
Mark, Seth, Wes, and Dylan share what drove them into philosophy and keeps them there. How is philosophy different than (or similar to) science? Than…
13 years, 6 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 72: Terrorism with Jonathan R. White
We're joined by an international terrorism expert to discuss how to define terrorism and whether it can ever be ethical. With readings by Donald Blac…
13 years, 6 months ago