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Back to SearchEpisode #215 ... How Mysticism is missing in our modern lives. (Critchley, Heidegger)
Today we talk about whether it's possible to achieve not just freedom of the will, but freedom from the will. The technological enframing of reality from the perspective of Heidegger. Misconceptions …
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
Episode #214 ... Framing our Being in a completely different way. (Heidegger)
Today we look at Heidegger's critique of metaphysics and the traditional subject-object framing in philosophy. How multiple framings are necessary for a fuller picture of our being. His challenge to …
Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode #213 ... Deleuze Interprets Nietzsche (Difference, Joy, Affirmation)
Today we talk about Deleuze's interpretation of Nietzsche's work. We talk about difference taken to radical new levels. The image of thought from the history of philosophy. Nietzsche framed as the en…
Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode #212 ... Nietzsche and Critchley on the tragic perspective. (Amor Fati pt. 2)
Today we begin by talking about Nietzsche's concept of life-affirmation. Contrasting it with the renunciative, rational traditions of Western thought. The episode then delves into Greek tragedy throu…
Published on 11 months, 1 week ago
Episode #211 ... Nietzsche returns with a hammer!
Today we talk about Nietzsche's views on the decay of western society. We talk about his problems with Socrates. The genealogy of Egalitarianism that has led to our modern societies, and how to conte…
Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode #210 ... The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire, Education)
We talk about Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. His critique of the banking model of education. The importance of critical consciousness. His Existentialist influence. The dialectic between o…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode #209 ... Improving our world through applied ethics. (Peter Singer, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek)
Today we talk about Peter Singer's response to an anticapitalist critique of his work. Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek's thoughts on the wrong ways to be thinking about ethical terminology. Philosophy in s…
Published on 1 year ago
Episode #208 ... The moral evolution of a philosopher. (Peter Singer)
On this episode, we track the changes in Peter Singer's ethical views throughout his career. We talk about Emotivism. R.M. Hare's Prescriptivism. Nozick's Experience Machine. Some thought experiments…
Published on 1 year ago
Episode #207 ... Fear is toxic to a democracy. (Martha Nussbaum)
Today we talk more about the work of Martha Nussbaum and her book The Monarchy of Fear. We discuss emotions as important appraisals of reality. The comparison of shame and guilt and their social impl…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Episode #206 ... Capitalism is dead. This is Technofeudalism. (Yanis Varoufakis)
Today we talk about the concept of Technofeudalism as described by Yanis Varoufakis. We talk about the comparisons of our world to the feudal system, the origins in the economic policy of 2008, and a…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago