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Primates In Space: Primates Discover Writing - Ep. 6
Season 12 Episode 6
Perhaps THE breakthrough that makes the major components of civilization possible, writing transformed our capacity to understand both the world and …
1 year, 1 month ago
Investment is not the Pope
Season 8 Episode 15
Our powerful belief in the economic narrative of investment and growth blinds us to the actual nature of the world we experience and the problems we …
1 year, 1 month ago
The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q8: Why is life so hard?
Season 11 Episode 8
The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q8: Why is life so hard?
1 All existence is dukkha. The word dukkha has been variously translated as ‘suff…
1 year, 1 month ago
Primates In Space: Primates Discover Cities - Ep. 5
Season 12 Episode 5
With the excess food available from the slow transition to Agriculture, cities began to form approximately 12,000 years ago. Nonetheless, as recently…
1 year, 1 month ago
Your Philosophy is not Right (Neither is Mine)
Season 8 Episode 14
A reflection on the way in which Philosophy and its uses is so often misrepresented as an attempt to be RIGHT. However, this mistakes the power of ph…
1 year, 1 month ago
The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q7: Where is the universe?
Season 11 Episode 7
The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q7: Where is the universe?
He who sees all beings in the Self and the Self in all beings, he
never turns aw…
1 year, 1 month ago
Primates In Space: Primates Discover Agriculture - Ep. 4
Season 12 Episode 4
After Art and Tools, Agriculture is clearly one of the most significant breakthroughs in the evolution of human culture. The changes both socially an…
1 year, 1 month ago
Cultivating The Intellect
Season 8 Episode 13
A brief argument for a few habits of mind and time use that are necessary for developing a life of the mind. Not overly prescriptive, but time for qu…
1 year, 1 month ago
The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q6: What can we learn from nature?
Season 11 Episode 6
The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q6: What can we learn from nature?
Hundred Schools of Thought (600-200 B.C.)
Legalism: Humans are inherentl…
1 year, 1 month ago
Primates In Space: Primates Discover Art - Ep. 3
Season 12 Episode 3
Likely more important than tool use and necessary for the development of more sophisticated tools, the development and creation of art marks the fund…
1 year, 1 month ago