Episode #246 ... The Myth of the Self-Made Person - Alasdair Macintyre
Today we talk about Macintyre's book Dependent Rational Animals. Hope you love it. :) Sponsors: Nord VPN: https://nordvpn.com/philothis Sail...
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20 of 246 episodesEpisode #245 ... The Rival Moral Approaches of the Modern World - Alasdair Macintyre
Today we talk about the book Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry by Alasdair Macintyre. We talk about each of the different sets of assump...
Episode #244 ... After Virtue - Alasdair MacIntyre (why moral conversations feel unsatisfying)
Today we talk about the book After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre. We talk about his genealogy of moral discourse. The teleologies of Aristotl...
Episode #243 ... Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Today we talk about the play Hamlet written by William Shakespeare. We compare more traditional takes on the themes of the play to a more mo...
Episode #242 ... Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Today we talk about the philosophy behind the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. We talk about how ineffective violence and honor...
Episode #241 ... The Tragedy of Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
Today we talk about the philosophical themes of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. We talk about the hypocrisy and false n...
Episode #240 ... Varieties of Religion Today (Charles Taylor)
Today we talk more about the work of Charles Taylor and his book The Varieties of Religion Today. We look at different answers to a classic...
Episode #239 ... Authenticity and the history of the self. (Charles Taylor)
Today we talk about the work of the philosopher Charles Taylor. First, we trace the historical origins of how he views the modern self. From...
Episode #238 ... Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Today we talk about the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. We talk about the mix of Romantic and Enlightenment attitudes and how it leads to...
Episode #237 ... The Stoics Are Wrong - Nietzsche, Schopenhauer
Today we talk about two famous critiques of Stoicism. One by Friedrich Nietzsche who thought the Stoics weren’t life affirming enough and so...
Episode #236 ... Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Today we talk about the collection of journals known as Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. We mark the differences between Stoicism, modern Sto...
Episode #235 ... The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism - Byung Chul Han
Today we talk about one of Han's earlier books where he offers an alternative to classic western ideas about subjectivity. We talk about Zen...
Episode #234 ... The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Today we try to produce a philosophical guide for the book The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. We talk about Parmenides, Nie...
Episode #233 ... A philosophy of self-destruction. (Dostoevsky, Bataille)
Today we talk about two different theories for why we ritualize self-destructive behavior. We check out a lesser-known work from Dostoevsky...
Episode #232 ... Byung Chul Han - The Crisis of Narration
Today we talk about the book The Crisis of Narration by the philosopher Byung Chul Han. We talk about the history of storytelling. Walter Be...
Episode #231 ... The Late Work of Wittgenstein - Language Games
Today we talk about the late work of Wittgenstein in Philosophical Investigations. We talk about the meaning of words. Augustine's theory. F...
Episode #230 ... Hope as an Existentialism (Ernst Bloch)
Today we talk about the early work of Ernst Bloch. Hope as anticipatory consciousness. The darkness of the lived moment. Educated hope vs fa...
Episode #229 - Kafka and Totalitarianism (Arendt, Adorno)
Today we talk about Kafka's book The Castle and how the symbolism is interpreted by two powerhouse philosophers: Theodore Adorno and Hannah...
Episode #228 ... Albert Camus - Kafka and The Fall
Today we talk about Camus' book The Fall and what the main character represents in his larger project. We also talk about someone Camus deep...
Episode #227 ... Albert Camus - On Exile
Today we talk about the concept of exile from the work of Camus. We focus on a couple stories from his book Exile and The Kingdom. We talk a...