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#67: Steven Nadler: Virtue is its Own Reward
Professor Steven Nadler of the University of Wisconsin joins these Fools to talk about the life and work of Baruch Spinoza, who was expelled from Jud…
8 months ago
#66: Hope, Will, and Purpose
Erik Erikson, renowned psychoanalyst and student of Sigmund Freud, says we have these innate drives around which ego and consciousness are formed. Th…
8 months, 1 week ago
#65: Madness
In the Fools and Sages One Year Anniversary Episode, these fools discuss various aspects of the nature of “madness” and the role it plays in society,…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
#64: Glenna Gerard: Dialogue and the Ineffable
Glenna Gerard has been involved in education, business, and consulting for over 30 years, much of that as a practitioner, facilitator, and teacher of…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
#63: Master and Emissary
It seems we see the world through a somewhat warped perspective. Where everything is interconnected, we see individual elements. As a result, human b…
9 months ago
#62: Justice and the Nature of Evil
The sentencing of Brian Kohberger in the infamous University of Idaho murders triggers a discussion of justice. What is justice, even? How have our c…
9 months, 1 week ago
#61: The Ladder Goes Both Ways
Does consciousness arise from matter, or does matter arise from consciousness? Or, wait: what about both??? These Fools discuss the often-revisited p…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
#60: The Search for Truth
These Fools examine humanity’s relationship to Truth - our desire for objective truth despite its subjective nature, and our love and reverence for i…
10 months ago
#59: The Second Coming (WB Yeats)
Brian reads the short poem, The Second Coming, by WB Yeats, written after WWI, and these Fools discuss its imagery, historical context, and philosoph…
10 months, 1 week ago
#58: What is Anger?
These Fools examine anger through psychological and philosophical frameworks. Is it a “secondary emotion?” A signal of other internal material? What …
10 months, 2 weeks ago