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Fools and Sages — 97 episodes

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Speaking the Tao with Dr. David Marshall 94

2

Mental Health, Materialism and Tripping Balls

3

Slicing Up The Pepperoni Of Time

4

Pornographic Playing Cards, Philosophy and Nietzsche 91

5

Dr, Stephen Hicks: Science, Objectivity, Truth and the Whole She-bang

6

Who's Your Daddy? Orphans Discuss Fatherhood

7

Money, money, money and a bit about Magic Spells 88

8

What About Eating Animals? 87

9

Krishnan Venkatesh: Sauntering into the Unknown: Thoreau & Basho

10

James Hartree: Philosophy For Screenagers 85

11

Allowing Being To Be: Gelassenheit 84

12

Mountaintops, Views, and More Heidegger 83

13

Can Philosophy Repair The World? Shaking Off The Still-Life 82

14

Gadamer, Levinas and a Magical Kind of Ping Pong 81

15

Heidegger and The Ontological Goo 80

16

Is Heaven All Up In Our Head? 79

17

Rich Rubino 2025 Retrospective 78

18

Paul Fenn: Liberty, Democracy, Localism and The Bloody Rhinoceros Head

19

Frogs in The Maelstrom and The Big We 76

20

Category Confusion and The Slippery Fish of The Self 75

21

The Rabbi and The Atom: Fusing Torah and Physics

22

The Missing Piece: The One Thing Books Can't Teach You 73

23

#72 The Dance of The Plover and The Chronosynclastic Infundibulum

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#71: Larry Shapiro: Why Science Needs Philosophy

25

#70: Implications of Forgiveness

26

#69: On Belonging, Oedipus, and the Psychopomp

27

#68: Michael Wolfe: Polish the Heart

28

#67: Steven Nadler: Virtue is its Own Reward

29

#66: Hope, Will, and Purpose

30

#65: Madness

31

#64: Glenna Gerard: Dialogue and the Ineffable

32

#63: Master and Emissary

33

#62: Justice and the Nature of Evil

34

#61: The Ladder Goes Both Ways

35

#60: The Search for Truth

36

#59: The Second Coming (WB Yeats)

37

#58: What is Anger?

38

#57: Brian's Teachers

39

#56: Krishnan Venkatesh: A Love of Impartiality

40

#55: It's All About the Hats

41

#54: Brian's Been Thinkin' 'Bout Crypto

42

#53: The Self is a Fortune Cookie

43

#52: Psychology and Ideology

44

#51: Fruitfulness

45

#50: Perfectionism and Play

46

#49: Geoffrey Moore: Pattern Recognition

47

#48: Hitler: A Phenomenological Sortie

48

#47: Allison Gerrard: Moral Courage

49

#46: An Antidote to Fragmentation

50

#45: Dire Wolves and Ethics

51

#44: The Wrench and the Paintbrush

52

#43: Healthy, Healthy, Dead

53

#42: On the Mountain, a Tree (Consulting the Oracle)

54

#41: Paul Fenn: The Reason We Are Mad

55

#40: Before You Feed the Beast

56

#39: Bridging Cultures

57

#38: We Assemble the World

58

#37: Discourse on the Finite and Infinite

59

#36: Extensions of Mankind

60

#35: Silly Shit Ain't New

61

#34: Letting The Stranger In with Claudia Hauer

62

#33: What Then Must We Do?

63

#32: A Merging of Horizons

64

#31: All Learning is Experiential

65

#30: Gang Aft Agley

66

#29: En Arche en ho Logos

67

#28: God Made the Food and the Devil Made the Cooks

68

#27: Claudia Hauer: It's Time for a New Ethics

69

#26: Instant Karma's Gonna Get You

70

#25: Justice and Paradigm Shift

71

#24: What Is Post-Modernism?

72

#23: Intuition (What Is It Good For?)

73

#22: Whole Body Like Dogs P**** (Why Martial Arts Matter)

74

#21: A Brief History of Western Thought

75

#20: La Maravilla Del Mundo

76

#19: Patriotism and Perspective

77

#18: Here Comes Everyone

78

#17: Politics and "The Other"

79

#16: On Community

80

#15: Lessons of the American West

81

#14: Faggin, Reality, and Responsibility

82

#13: Integrating Trauma

83

#12: Interdependence

84

#11: Post-Election Review Feat. Rich Rubino

85

#10: Tiger Dragon Makes Luck

86

#9: 2024 Election Special feat. Rich Rubino

87

#8: Cleaning Up and Waking Up

88

#7: On Suffering

89

#6: On Prayer

90

#5: Podcasting and the Creative Process

91

#4: On Violence

92

#3: The Universe is a Place out of Which You Cannot Fall

93

#2: "Yin Will" and "Yang Will"

94

#1: The Semantic World

95

Demo #3: Chapters and Transitions

96

Demo #2: That Which Obstructs Your Path

97

Demo #1: A Hole in the Armor