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PREMIUM-Episode 35: Hegel on Self-Consciousness
On G.F.W. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), Part B (aka Ch. 4), "Self-Consciousness," plus recapping the three chapters before that (Part A. "C…
15 years, 6 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 34: Frege on the Logic of Language
On Gottlob Frege's "Sense and Reference," "Concept and Object" (both from 1892) and "The Thought" (1918). With guest Matt Teichman.
15 years, 6 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 33: Montaigne: What Is the Purpose of Philosophy?
Discussing Michel de Montaigne's Essays: "That to Philosophize is to Learn to Die," "Of Experience," "Of Cannibals," "Of the Education of Children," …
15 years, 7 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 32: Heidegger: What is "Being?"
Discussing Martin Heidegger's Being and Time (1927), mostly the intro and ch. 1 and 2 of Part 1.
15 years, 7 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 31: Husserl's Phenomenology
Discussing Edmund Husserl's Cartesian Meditations (1931).
15 years, 8 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 30: Schopenhauer on Explanations and Knowledge
Discussing Arthur Schopenhauer's On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, published in 1847 (as an expansion of his doctoral thesi…
15 years, 9 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 29: Kierkegaard on the Self
On Soren Kierkegaard's "The Sickness Unto Death" (1849). With guest Daniel Horne.
15 years, 10 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 28: Nelson Goodman on Art as Epistemology
Discussing Goodman's Ways of Worldmaking (1978). With guest painter Jay Bailey.
15 years, 11 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 27: Nagarjuna on Buddhist "Emptiness"
Primarily discussing "Reasoning: The Sixty Stanzas" and "Emptiness: The Seventy Stanzas," by the 2nd century Indian Buddhist Nagarjuna. With guest Er…
15 years, 11 months ago
PREMIUM-Episode 26: Freud on the Human Condition
Discussing Freud's Civilization and its Discontents (1930). Get the full episode at partiallyexaminedlife.com. For Wes Alwan's summary of this book, …
16 years ago