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Johnathan Bi — 80 episodes
Capitalism vs Aristocracy: Who Actually Had it Better? Tocqueville Seminar ft. Alpha School
Why Odysseus Cries When Listening to the Trojan War Stories | Gregory Nagy
How to Choose a Good Wife (According to Odysseus)
Odysseus and the Art of Lying | Homer's Odyssey Explained
What Happens to Odysseus After the Odyssey? Telegony, Inferno, Ulysses, Republic Compared
Homer Didn't Write The Odyssey, This is Who Did | Harvard’s Gregory Nagy
America's War on Christianity | Tocqueville on Religion
Democracy with American Characteristics | Tocqueville on America's Industrial Aristocracy
The American Love of Acquisition & Commerce | UT Philosopher Thomas Pangle
The 4 Best Books to Prepare for AI (of the Hundreds I’ve Read)
The Path to God is Through Sex | Rice Professor Jeff Kripal
The High Integrity Way Great Men Chase Fame | UT Philosopher Thomas Pangle on the American Founding
Comparing the World Religions with Rice's Jeff Kripal
Inside the CIA’s Psychic Spy Program | Stargate
Only Treachery Can Defend Freedom | Machiavelli's Domestic Policy Explained
Nietzsche Was NOT an Atheist. He Was a Mystic
The Chinese Billionaire Paying People to Have Kids | James Liang on Demography
The Overwhelming Evidence for Miracles Suppressed By Authorities | Princeton's Dale Allison
The Struggle for Recognition | Axel Honneth
The Case for Imperialism | Machiavelli's Foreign Policy Explained
Christology, Apocalypse, Ressurection | Dale Allison on the New Testament
The Incredible Results of AI Learning | A New Philosophy of Education
How a $17B Investor Beat Wall Street By Reading Shakespeare | Jim O'Shaughnessy
Answering Tough Questions on Machiavelli’s Ethics | Q&A
Why Good People Make Terrible Leaders | Machiavelli's Ethics Explained
Capital is Cheap, This is The Last Scarce Resource | USV’s Albert Wenger
Reject Globalism, Embrace Patriotism | Maurizio Viroli
Your Face Shapes Your Destiny | Shelley's Frankenstein Explained
A Masterclass on Machiavelli’s Unorthodox Christianity | Maurizio Viroli
Rebel Oxford Philosopher Declares War on Universities | Michael Gibson
The Next Best Alternative to Libertarianism | Palantir Cofounder Joe Lonsdale’s Political Philosophy
How This Wittgenstein Scholar Built a $16 Billion Startup | Marcus Ryu, Oxford
He Studied the Great Books and Built a $2 Billion Startup | Francis Pedraza
How Following His Curiosity Made Him a Fortune | Colin Moran, Oxford Historian
The One Thing You Must Never Outsource to AI | Brendan McCord
Embrace the Erotic | Plato's Symposium Explained
The Problem with Modern Dating | David O’Connor on Nietzsche, Plato, Christ
Harvard Professor’s Masterclass on Machiavelli | Harvey Mansfield
Debate: Can AI Write a Great Book?
Plato’s Guide to Virtue | Cornell’s Rachana Kamtekar
A Systematic Critique of Stoic Philosophy | Cicero's Definibus
Why You Self-Sabotage | Rachana Kamtekar on Plato’s Moral Psychology
Introduction to Ancient Skepticism | Tad Brennan on Sextus Empiricus
How Stoics Reconcile Determinism & Free Will | Cornell's Tad Brennan
The Signs that AI is Conscious | Imperial's Murray Shanahan
AI's Killer-App Isn't Chatbots, It's Social | Linkedin Founder Reid Hoffman
Why Stoicism Doesn’t Work Without God | Tad Brennan on Stoic Ethics
The Slave Who Was Free | Berkeley’s AA Long on Epictetus
The Case for Emotional Pacifism | Martha Nussbaum on Britten’s War Requiem
Introduction to Hellenistic Philosophy | AA Long on Stoicism, Skepticism, Epicureanism
Why Plato Hated Democracy | GRF Ferrari on the Republic
The First 80 years of AI, and What Comes Next | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge
How to Prepare for the AI Age: US-China, War, Job Loss | Tyler Cowen
Plato’s Critique of Hookup Culture | GRF Ferrari on the Phaedrus
Making Sense of Christianity's Violent Past | Carlos Eire
Introduction to Stoic Philosophy | Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
Yale Historian Uncovers Evidence for Levitation | Carlos Eire on Christian Miracles
The Surprising Source of Shakespeare’s Inspiration | Stephen Greenblatt
How Shakespeare Bought His Way into the Upper Class | Stephen Greenblatt
Rousseau's Case for Censorship | Christopher Kelly on Rousseau
Nietzsche: There is No Objective Right or Wrong | Brian Leiter
Rousseau's Second Discourse: Why The Poor Embrace Inequality
Withdrawal vs. Political Action | Katharina Volk on Roman Epicureanism
How to Combine Action & Contemplation | Katharina Volk on Cicero & Caesar
Can Love Survive Marriage? Stephen Greenblatt on Shakespeare
Stoicism is a Coping Mechanism | Katharina Volk on Cato
Why “Innovation” Was a Crime in the 16th Century
Overcoming Nihilism with Nietzsche | Robert Pippin
Self-Esteem Requires External-Validation | Fred Neuhouser on Rousseau
Selfish Heroes Make Great Leaders | Christopher Kelly on Rousseau
Rousseau's First Discourse: Science & Art Are Poisoning You
Reject Free Will, Become Who You Are | Brian Leiter on Nietzsche
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality: Masters vs. Slaves
Lecture VII: The One Who Withholds | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Lecture VI: The Triumph of Modernity | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Lecture V: The Christian Revelation | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Lecture IV: The Scapegoat Mechanism | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Lecture III: Mimetic Rivalry and Girard's Theodicy | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Lecture II: Mimetic Desire and Original Sin | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Lecture I: Introduction to Mimetic Theory | René Girard's Mimetic Theory