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Episode 15: Hegel on History
Discussing G.W.F Hegel's Introduction to the Philosophy of History (1837).
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16 years, 7 months ago
Episode 14: Machiavelli on Politics
Discussing Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince (1532) and Ch. 1-20 of The Discourse on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy.
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16 years, 7 months ago
Episode 13: What Are the Metaphysical Implications of Quantum Physics?
On Werner Heisenberg's Physics and Philosophy. Dylan Casey's first appearance (as a guest).
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16 years, 8 months ago
Episode 12: Chuang Tzu's Taoism: What Is Wisdom?
On the Chuang Tzu, Chapters 2, 3, 6, 18, and 19. With guest Erik Douglas.
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16 years, 9 months ago
Episode 11: Nietzsche's Immoralism: What Is Ethics, Anyway?
Discussing The Genealogy of Morals (mostly the first two essays) and Beyond Good and Evil Ch. 1 (The Prejudices of Philosophers), 5 (Natural History …
16 years, 10 months ago
Episode 10: Kantian Ethics: What Should We Do?
Discussing Fundamental Principles (aka Groundwork) of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785).
16 years, 11 months ago
Episode 9: Utilitarian Ethics: What Should We Do?
Discussing Jeremy Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation chapters 1-5, John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism, and Peter Si…
17 years ago
Episode 8: Wittgenstein's Tractatus (and Carnap): What Can We Legitimately Talk About?
Continuing last ep's discussion of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus with some Rudolph Carnap from his 1935 book Philosophy and Logical S…
17 years ago
Episode 7: Wittgenstein's Tractatus: What Is There and Can We Talk About It?
Discussing the beginning (through around 3.1) of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921).
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17 years, 1 month ago
Episode 6: Leibniz's Monadology: What Is There?
Discussing Gottfried Wilhelm Liebniz's Monadology (1714).
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17 years, 2 months ago