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Plato: The Symposium — Summer Seminar Announcement
Season 10
If you would like to participate in a Summer Symposium Seminar here’s your chance. Get a copy of the Symposium and get ready as I will launch June 9 …
1 year, 5 months ago
The Transvaluation of All Values: Scarcity and Abundance - Ep. 1
Season 9 Episode 1
SCARCITY AND ABUNDANCE:
We have inherited a set of values that are a misfit for the world we now inhabit. The tension between our past and our present…
1 year, 5 months ago
Capitalism: How did we get here? And where are we going? Ep. 11
Season 7 Episode 11
The past tells us that our future with Capitalism is unlikely to suddenly change. Rather, we are likely to experience a slow evolution of values that…
1 year, 5 months ago
Philosophical Fireside Chats 🔥 🪵: Confucius in The Analects—Relative Wisdom - Ep. 13
Season 6 Episode 13
In this short parable from the Analects we see the idea that wisdom is relative both to situations and individuals. This approach to wisdom is marked…
1 year, 5 months ago
How to get rich with philosophy. No, really.
Season 8 Episode 5
I know this sounds like a joke, but the joke was on me. This moment in the coffee shop highlighted how deeply I have internalized our cultural defini…
1 year, 5 months ago
Capitalism: How did we get here? And where are we going? Ep. 10
Season 7 Episode 10
We reach today and discover, like 16th century Catholics, we know all the critiques of our condition but have difficulty imagining any possible alter…
1 year, 5 months ago
Philosophical Fireside Chats 🔥 🪵: Searching for what you already have (Sufism) - Ep. 12
Season 6 Episode 12
Searching for what we already have is one of the keys, if not the key, messages of Sufism. If you are a god, what are you looking for out in the worl…
1 year, 5 months ago
Why is Hinduism so difficult for the West?
Season 8 Episode 4
An introduction into why we find it hard to understand Hinduism. It is not a faith based religion, there is no book, there are not many actual rules …
1 year, 5 months ago
Capitalism: How did we get here? And where are we going? Ep. 9
Season 7 Episode 9
CAPITALISM: EP. 9
I argue that one of the problems we face today is simply confusion. We understand the ills of global capitalism, we are cynical abou…
1 year, 5 months ago
Philosophical Fireside Chats 🔥 🪵: (Zen Koan)The Sound of One Hand Clapping - Ep. 11
Season 6 Episode 11
The "sound of one hand clapping" is a famous, now seemingly trite and often ridiculed, Zen Koan that is quite profound. The Koan asks to pause and re…
1 year, 5 months ago