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#107 - A Medicine More Fit for Humanity: Iain McGilchrist on Anti-Materialism, the Divided Brain, and How Art and Literature Can Improve Medicine

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According to Max Planck, ‘Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any k…

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#106 (LABOR DAY SPECIAL) - Why I Am Still A Communist: Slavoj Zizek on Stalin's Terror, the Consequences of Neoliberalism, and the Refugee Crisis

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Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still deb…

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#105 - The Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza: J. Thomas Cook on Pantheism, the Geometric Method, and Life as a Jewish Heretic

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A Portuguese Jew living in Holland, Spinoza was excommunicated because of the unorthodox vie…

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#104 - The Philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard: George Connell on Infinite Resignation, the Knight of Faith, and the Path to the Spiritual Life

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The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.

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#103 - The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas: Kenneth L. Schmitz on Scholasticism, the Proof of God's Existence, and the Beatific Vision

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Thomas Aquinas is the smartest man who ever lived - with the sole exception of Jesus Christ.…

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#102 - The Philosophy of David Hume: Nicholas Capaldi on the Fact/Value Distinction, the Problem of Induction, and Natural Religion

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David Hume (1711-1776) has been called "the greatest philosophical mind in the English langu…

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#101 - Apartheid South Africa: Roy Casagranda on Dutch and British Colonialism, the African National Congress, and Turning Point of the Freedom Struggle

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How did South Africa come under the control of the Dutch and the British? When and how was r…

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#100 - A Complete Guide to Plato's Dialogues: Michael Sugrue on Plato's Literary Style, the Visibility of Reason, and the Emergence of Justice and Wisdom [REUPLOAD]

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#99 - Power and Ideology at the New School: Noam Chomsky on Internationalism, Media Bias, and US Global Aggression

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World-renowned professor of linguistics and lifelong political dissident Noam Chomsky addres…

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#98 - Nonviolent Communication: Marshall Rosenberg on Resolving Conflict, Negotiating Compassionately, and Creating Peace

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In order to do philosophy at all we have to find ways to discuss difficult topics in a way t…

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