Episode #237 … The Stoics are wrong. (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer)
Episode #237 … The Stoics are wrong. (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer)
Today we talk about two famous critiques of Stoicism.
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Episode #236 … Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Episode #236 … Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Today we talk about Meditations written by Marcus Aurelius.
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Episode #235 … The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism - Byung Chul Han
Episode #235 … The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism - Byung Chul Han
Today we talk about The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism written by Byung Chul Han.
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Episode #234 … The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Episode #234 … The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Today we talk about The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera.
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Episode #233 … A philosophy of self-destruction. (Dostoevsky, Bataille)
Episode #233 … A philosophy of self-destruction. (Dostoevsky, Bataille)
Today we talk about self-destructive behavior as understood by Dostoevsky and Bataille.
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Episode #232 … Byung Chul Han - The Crisis of Narration
Episode #232 … Byung Chul Han - The Crisis of Narration
Today we talk about The Crisis of Narration written by Byung Chul Han.
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Episode #231 … The Late Work of Wittgenstein - Language Games
Episode #231 … The Late Work of Wittgenstein - Language Games
Today we talk about the late work of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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Episode #230 … Hope as an Existentialism (Ernst Bloch)
Episode #230 … Hope as an Existentialism (Ernst Bloch)
Today we talk about the work of Ernst Bloch.
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Episode #229 … Kafka and Totalitarianism (Arendt, Adorno)
Episode #229 … Kafka and Totalitarianism (Arendt, Adorno)
Today we talk about two very different interpretations of the work of Franz Kafka.
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Episode #228 … Albert Camus - Kafka and The Fall
Episode #228 … Albert Camus - Kafka and The Fall
Today we talk about the book The Fall by Albert Camus as well as his interpretation of The Trial by Franz Kafka.
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Episode #227 … Albert Camus - On Exile
Episode #226 … Albert Camus - On Exile
Today we talk about the book Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus.
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Episode #226 … Albert Camus - The Rebel
Episode #226 … Albert Camus - The Rebel
Today we talk about the book The Rebel by Albert Camus.
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Episode #225 … Albert Camus - The Plague
Episode #225 … Albert Camus - The Plague
Today we talk about the book The Plague by Albert Camus.
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Episode #224 … Albert Camus - The Stranger
Episode #224 … Albert Camus - The Stranger
Today we talk about the book The Stranger by Albert Camus. We talk about why Camus saw himself as an artist and not a philosopher. We talk about happiness. The absurd and it's full implications. The Mediterranean lifestyle. The sun as a symbol of immanence. Revolt against the absurd as a descriptive claim-- not a normative one.
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Episode #223 … Religion and the duck-rabbit. - Kyoto School pt. 3
Episode #223 … Religion and the duck-rabbit - Kyoto School pt. 3
Today we talk about the relationship between philosophy and religion. We talk about the duck-rabbit as a metaphor that may have something useful to teach us about the way we experience reality. We talk about the enormous difficulty of fully addressing the question: what is religion? We talk about Schelling's historical view of revelation and its connection to a possible new era of Christian religious practice. Hope you love it! :)
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Episode #222 … Dostoevsky - Love in The Brothers Karamazov
Episode #222 … Dostoevsky - Love in The Brothers Karamazov
Today we talk about the philosophical themes that Dostoevsky had in mind about love when writing The Brothers Karamazov. Hope you love it! :)
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Episode #221 … Dostoevsky - The Idiot
Episode #221 … Dostoevsky - The Idiot
Today we talk about the philosophical themes that Dostoevsky had in mind when writing The Idiot. Hope you love it! :)
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Episode #220 … Dostoevsky - Demons
Episode #220 … Dostoevsky - Demons
Today we talk about the philosophical themes that Dostoevsky had in mind when writing Demons. Hope you love it! :)
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