Podcast Episodes

Michael Davis - The Philosophy of Tragedy (1): Why We Love Tragedy

Lectures by Michael Davis, Professor of Philosophy, delivered in the fall semester of 2018 at Sarah Lawrence College.

Davis works primarily in Greek…

1 year, 9 months ago

Michael Sugrue - Plato's Republic: The Complete Guide [Reupload]

I've taken a few of Professor Sugrue's lectures and stitched them together to make a complete, one-stop shopping guide to Plato's Republic that is pl…

1 year, 9 months ago

Chris Hedges - American Sadism

Advisory: This episode is INTENSE and it is not suitable for children. Discusses violence against women and children as well as warfare and torture.

1 year, 9 months ago

Judith Herman - Psychological Trauma, Childhood Influences, and Recovery

Judith Herman wrote an incredible book called "Trauma and Recovery" which I would wholeheartedly recommend to everyone.

Advisory: Discusses incest, s…

1 year, 9 months ago

Jonathan Lear - Virtue Ethics, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Psychotherapy

In this talk, Jonathan Lear reviews one of my favorite philosophers, the British virtue ethicist and founder of the Neoareatic movement Alasdair MacI…

1 year, 9 months ago

Martha Nussbaum - Upheavals of Thought: Neo-Stoicism and Emotional Cognition

On March 22, 2005, Martha Nussbaum visited the John Adams Institute to talk about Upheavals of Thought - The Intelligence of Emotions.

For everybody…

1 year, 9 months ago

Deborah Nelson - Ethics Without Empathy: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil

This talk describes the ethics and aesthetics of unsentimentality as practiced by some of the late twentieth-century’s most notable women artists and…

1 year, 9 months ago

Chris Hedges - Fascism in the Age of Trump

Chris Hedges explores the cultural, economic, and political forms of fascism that are dredged up by the political phenomenon of Donald Trump's presid…

1 year, 9 months ago

John Searle - Consciousness as a Problem in Philosophy and Neurobiology [Reupload]

In this 2014 lecture, famed philosopher of mind John Searle, originator of the "Chinese Room" critique of machine intelligence discusses competing th…

1 year, 9 months ago

Michael Parenti - The Nature of Empire [Reupload]

Ladies and Gentlemen, comrades and compadres, narcs and Feds I proudly present: the only Michael Parenti lecture in existence with good quality audio…

1 year, 9 months ago