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Academy of Ideas — 139 episodes
How to Change Your Attitude to Change Your Life
Life as a Quest - The Antidote to a Wasted Existence
Gustave Le Bon: The Nature of Crowds
The Psychology of Fairy Tales
Why are So Many Men Psychologically Infantile?
Introduction to Ethics
John Stuart Mill - On Liberty
Escape Mediocrity - How to Stop Wasting your Life
Ernest Becker and the Fear of Death
Ernest Becker and Heroism
The School of Anxiety is The School of Greatness
Introduction to Propaganda
Clarence Darrow and Pacifism
What is Brainwashing?
Carl Jung's Method of Self-Development - The Path of Individuation
Carl Jung’s Apocalyptic Vision
Introduction to Schopenhauer - The World as Will
Introduction to Schopenhauer: Schopenhauer's Ethics
Eric Hoffer: The True Believer and The Nature of Mass Movements
Creativity and the Pursuit of Excellence
Introduction to Stoicism
Pessimism of Strength
Soren Kierkegaard and The Psychology of Anxiety
Carl Jung, the Shadow, and the Dangers of Psychological Projection
Philosophy as a Way of Life
How to Be Free in an Unfree World
How Civil Disobedience Safeguards Freedom and Prevents Tyranny
Introduction to Kierkegaard: The Existential Problem
How to Turn Your Mind from an Enemy to an Ally
Introduction to Kierkegaard: The Religious Solution
Introduction to Democritus
Introduction to the Scientific Revolution
Epicurus and the Good Life
Why Stupid People are Destroying Society - The Laws of Human Stupidity
Collectivism and Individualism
The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis - Can Sanity Return to an Insane World?
Solitude and Self-Realization: Why You Should Spend More Time Alone
Introduction to Aristotle: Knowledge, Teleology and the Four Causes
Fear and Social Control
Nietzsche and Zapffe: Beauty, Suffering, and the Nature of Genius
Introduction to Carl Jung - The Psyche, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Introduction to Carl Jung - Individuation, the Persona, the Shadow, and the Self
Spontaneous Order vs. Centralized Control
Introduction to Camus: The Absurd, Revolt, and Rebellion
Stoicism: Meditations and the Wisdom of Marcus Aurelius
Freedom vs. Force - The Individual and the State
The Nature of Creativity and The Courage to Create
Joseph Campbell and the Myth of the Hero's Journey
The Psychology of Joy - 3 Antidotes to Suffering
Viktor Frankl: Logotherapy and Man's Search for Meaning
How to Fortify the Mind in Times of Crisis
How We Enslave Ourselves
Socrates: The Socratic Problem
Freedom and Anxiety - The Inner God vs The Inner Worm
Existential Psychotherapy: Death, Freedom, Isolation, Meaninglessness
Stoicism: Letters from a Stoic and the Wisdom of Seneca
How Ideas can Trigger a Mass Psychosis
Wealth Inequality: The Good and the Bad
The Psychology and Principles of Mastery
How to Cultivate Your Sixth Sense – The Power of Intuition
The Ideal Body: Use Your Body to Shape a Great Character
Carl Jung and the Shadow: Integrating the Hidden Power of Your Dark Side
Introduction to Parmenides
Introduction to Heraclitus
Introduction to Thales, Anaximenes, and Anaximander
Introduction to the Presocratics
Nietzsche and Metaphysics
Escape Boredom - Leonardo da Vinci and a Guide to the Good Life
The Psychology of Power - How to Dethrone Tyrants
Overcoming Nihilism
How to Thrive in the Battle of Life
Active and Passive Nihilism
Nietzsche and the Death of God
Nietzsche and the True World
What Would Nietzsche Think of 21st Century Society?
Suffering and the Meaning of Life
What is Religion?
Is a Mass Psychosis the Greatest Threat to Humanity?
Introduction to Epistemology
Introduction to Nihilism
Machiavelli - The Rulers vs The Ruled and the Struggle for Power
Why are People so Obedient? - Compliance and Conformity
Why the News Promotes Ignorance and Mental Illness
Socrates: The Man and His Life
The Psychology of War - Are We Doomed to Destroy Ourselves?
The Limits of Science - A Critique of Scientism
The Ideal Body: How our Body Shapes our Character
Carl Jung and The Most Important Rule of Life
The Ideas of Socrates
The Role of Ideas in History
Frédéric Bastiat - The Law
Do We Live in a Sick Society?
Søren Kierkegaard and The Value of Despair
Why the Lack of Beauty is Destroying Society
William James and the Sick Soul
Is This How the West Ends?
Introduction to Diogenes the Cynic
The Archetypal Western Path, the Last Man, and the Daimon
Why Caring What Others Think Breeds Mental Illness
Using a Second Self to Promote Self-Transformation
Introduction to Metaphysics
Is the Terrible Mother Archetype Possessing Modern Man?
Introduction to Nietzsche
Carl Jung - How Life Changes After 40
Why We Struggle To Change
Abraham Maslow and the Psychology of Self-Actualization
How to Find a Purpose and the Psychology of the Daemon
Aldous Huxley and Brave New World: The Dark Side of Pleasure
Epictetus and Stoicism: The Wisdom of the Slave Philosopher
The Addict in Us All: How Smartphones are Creating a Population of Addicts
How to Stop Being a Coward
Social Media and The Psychology of Loneliness
Performing Therapy On Yourself: Self-Knowledge and Self-Realization
How the "Greater Good" is Used as a Tool of Social Control
The Psychology of the Anti-Hero
Why Passivity Breeds Mediocrity and Mental Illness
The Psychology of Depression - How to Ruin Your Life
The Problem of Anger - How to Use the Power of Your Dark Side
Nietzsche and Jung: Myth and the Age of the Hero
The Psychology of Heroism
The Psychology of Self-Sabotage and Resistance
Nietzsche and The Human Animal: The Domesticated and The Strong
How to Integrate Your Shadow - The Dark Side is Unrealized Potential
Why You Should Strive for a Meaningful Life, Not a Happy One
Carl Jung and The Value of Anxiety Disorders
Carl Jung on Overcoming Anxiety Disorders
The Psychology of Resilience: Thriving in Adversity
Why Public Schools and the Mainstream Media Dumb Us Down
The Benefits of Reading Great Books
How to Overcome the Downward Pull of Other People
Why Purpose and Discipline Promote Psychological Well-Being
Rapid Personality Change and the Psychological Rebirth
The Outsider's Guide to the Social World
Introduction to Empedocles
Introduction to Anaxagoras
Carl Jung - Inferiority Complexes and the Superior Self
Why We Can’t Vote Our Way to Freedom
Introduction to Existentialism
Nietzsche and Self Overcoming