EPISODE · Mar 5, 2020 · 2H 4M
Colloquia at Columbia University
from Stoa · host Prakhar Gupta, Perry Sidhu, Jonathan Karten
00:00 Begin.7:08 The 'Steel Man'8:30 Steel manning dangerous individuals. 9:40 Suspend your own position. 10:58 Separating the idea from the individual. 12:26 Steel manning the opposite. 14:10 The University and acquiescing to student demands. 17:01 Beginning of our Journey.18:37 Jonathan's GS Story.19:15 Prakhar's GS Story. 27:00 Perry's GS Story. 32:24: Challenging God. 38:51 Conversations on a street couch. 41:38 Philosophy of Humor. 45:08 Colloquia inception. 45:50 Are ideas dangerous?48:10 Power dynamics in conversation. 58:26 Plato's theory of play. 59:29 Red/Blue Team1:03:45 Playing with ideas. 1:07:48 Favorite Stoas. 1:12:30 Professor Abe Haak Event1:16:37 Jonathan's Hot Seat1:20:55 Steel Man: Hiroshima bombing. Topic in a Hat. 1:23:23 Stoa: Colloquia Critique 1:27:19 Stoa: Monitoring Chinese Students1:34:43 Hopes for the future. 1:37:51 Humility and Death. 1:42:55 The utility of Philosophy. 1:46:37 The University as a bubble. 1:56:43 What Colloquia did for Prakhar. 2:02:48 The Stoa as an experiment. 2:03:44 End
What this episode covers
Welcome to the first episode of the Stoa Podcast! This episode is a brief (and potentially chaotic) introduction to our inception at Columbia University as well as an opportunity to hear a bit about the founders: Perry Sidhu, Jonathan Karten, and Prakhar Gupta.
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