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Philosophize This! — 251 episodes
Episode #251 ... You Must Change Your Life, Pt. 2 - The Worlds That Make Us
Episode #250 ... You Must Change Your Life. - Peter Sloterdijk
Episode #249 ... The Trap of Modern Cynicism - Peter Sloterdijk
Episode #248 ... What philosophers say about lying.
Episode #247 ... The Failure of the Modern University - Alasdair MacIntyre
Episode #246 ... The Myth of the Self-Made Person - Alasdair Macintyre
Episode #245 ... The Rival Moral Approaches of the Modern World - Alasdair Macintyre
Episode #244 ... After Virtue - Alasdair MacIntyre (why moral conversations feel unsatisfying)
Episode #243 ... Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Episode #242 ... Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Episode #241 ... The Tragedy of Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
Episode #240 ... Varieties of Religion Today (Charles Taylor)
Episode #239 ... Authenticity and the history of the self. (Charles Taylor)
Episode #238 ... Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Episode #237 ... The Stoics Are Wrong - Nietzsche, Schopenhauer
Episode #236 ... Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Episode #235 ... The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism - Byung Chul Han
Episode #234 ... The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Episode #233 ... A philosophy of self-destruction. (Dostoevsky, Bataille)
Episode #232 ... Byung Chul Han - The Crisis of Narration
Episode #231 ... The Late Work of Wittgenstein - Language Games
Episode #230 ... Hope as an Existentialism (Ernst Bloch)
Episode #229 - Kafka and Totalitarianism (Arendt, Adorno)
Episode #228 ... Albert Camus - Kafka and The Fall
Episode #227 ... Albert Camus - On Exile
Episode #226 - Albert Camus - The Rebel
Episode #225 ... Albert Camus - The Plague
Episode #224 ... Albert Camus - The Stranger
Episode #223 ... Religion and the duck-rabbit - Kyoto School pt. 3
Episode #222 ... Dostoevsky - Love in The Brothers Karamazov
Episode #221 ... Dostoevsky - The Idiot
Episode #220 ... Dostoevsky - Demons
Episode #219 ... Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Episode #218 ... Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground
Episode #217 ... Religion and Nothingness - Kyoto School pt. 2 - Nishitani
Episode #216 ... The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism - Kyoto School pt. 1 - Nishitani
Episode #215 ... How Mysticism is missing in our modern lives. (Critchley, Heidegger)
Episode #214 ... Framing our Being in a completely different way. (Heidegger)
Episode #213 ... Deleuze Interprets Nietzsche (Difference, Joy, Affirmation)
Episode #212 ... Nietzsche and Critchley on the tragic perspective. (Amor Fati pt. 2)
Episode #211 ... Nietzsche returns with a hammer!
Episode #210 ... The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire, Education)
Episode #209 ... Improving our world through applied ethics. (Peter Singer, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek)
Episode #208 ... The moral evolution of a philosopher. (Peter Singer)
Episode #207 ... Fear is toxic to a democracy. (Martha Nussbaum)
Episode #206 ... Capitalism is dead. This is Technofeudalism. (Yanis Varoufakis)
Episode #205 ... Why a meritocracy is corrosive to society. (Michael Sandel)
Episode #204 ... The importance of philosophy, justice and the common good. (Michael Sandel)
Episode #203 ... Why the future is being slowly cancelled. - Postmodernism (Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism)
Episode #202 ... Why we can't think beyond capitalism. - Neoliberalism (Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism)
Episode #201 ... Resistance, Love, and the importance of Failure. (Zizek, Byung Chul Han)
Episode #200 ... The Postmodern subject and "ideology without ideology" (Zizek, Byung Chul Han, Marx)
Episode #199 ... A conservative communist's take on global capitalism and desire. (Zizek, Marx, Lacan)
Episode #198 ... The truth is in the process. - Zizek pt. 3 (ideology, dialectics)
Episode #197 ... New Atheists and cosmic purpose without God - (Zizek, Goff, Nagel)
Episode #196 ... The improbable Slavoj Zizek - Part 1
Episode #195 ... Could Anarcho-Capitalism be the solution to our problems? - Anarchism pt. 4 (Rothbard, Friedman, Malice)
Episode #194 ... Do we really need the police? - Anarchism pt. 3 - (Gelderloos, Security)
Episode #193 ...The chief export of the western world is trash. - Anarchism pt. 2 (Bookchin, Social Ecology)
Episode #192 ... Should we overthrow the government tomorrow? - Anarchism pt. 1 (Chomsky, Malatesta)
Episode #191 ... The modern day concentration camp and the failure of human rights. (Giorgio Agamben)
Episode #190 ... Are emotions a waste of time? - Neo-Stoicism (Martha Nussbaum)
Episode #189 ... Everything that connects us is slowly disappearing. - Byung Chul Han pt. 2
Episode #188 ... Achievement Society and the rise of narcissism, depression and anxiety - Byung-Chul Han
Episode #187 ... How much freedom would you trade for security? (Foucault, Hobbes, Mill, Agamben)
Episode #186 ... Are we heading for a digital prison? - Panopticon (Foucault, Bentham, Cave)
Episode #185 ... Should we prepare for an AI revolution?
Episode #184 ... Is Artificial Intelligence really an existential risk?
Episode #183 ... Is ChatGPT really intelligent?
Episode #182 ... What if free will is an illusion?
Episode #181 ... What if consciousness is an illusion?
Episode #180 ... What if everything is consciousness? - Phillip Goff on Panpsychism
Episode #179 ... Why is consciousness something worth talking about?
Episode #178 ... Susan Sontag - How Much Is Your View Of Everything Affected By Metaphors?
Episode #177 ... Susan Sontag - Do you speak the language of pictures and videos?
Episode #176 ... Susan Sontag - Do you criticize yourself the way you criticize a movie?
Episode #175 ... Simone Weil - Vessels of God
Episode #174 ... Simone Weil - The Mathematician
Episode #173 ... Simone Weil - The Need for Roots
Episode #172 ... Simone Weil - Attention
Episode #171 ... Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle
Episode #170 ... Albert Camus - The Fall
Episode #169 ... Bruno Latour - We Have Never Been Modern
Episode #168 ... Introduction to an Ethics of Care
Episode #167 ... Jose Ortega - Revolt of the Masses
Episode #166 ... Jose Ortega - Circumstance
Episode #165 ... Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature and Other Things
Episode #164 ... Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self Reliance
Episode #163 ... The Creation of Meaning - Escape From Evil
Episode #162 ... The Creation of Meaning - The Denial of Death
Episode #161 ... Karl Popper - The Open Society and Its Enemies
Episode #160 ... The Creation of Meaning - Kierkegaard - Silence, Obedience and Joy
Episode #159 ... The Creation of Meaning - Nietzsche - Amor Fati
Episode #158 ... The Creation of Meaning - Nietzsche - The Ascetic Ideal
Episode #157 ... The Creation of Meaning - Beauvoir
Episode #156 ... Emil Cioran part 2 - Failure and Suicide
Episode #155 ... Emil Cioran - Absurdity and Nothingness
Episode #154 ... Pragmatism and Truth
Episode #153 ... The Frankfurt School - Walter Benjamin pt. 2 - Distraction
Episode #152 ... The Frankfurt School - Walter Benjamin pt. 1
Episode #151 ... The Frankfurt School - Erich Fromm on Freedom
Episode #150 ... The Frankfurt School - Erich Fromm on Love
Episode #149 ... On Media pt. 2 - Marshall McLuhan
Episode #148 ... On Media pt. 1 - Manufacturing Consent
Episode #147 ... Being and Becoming
Episode #146 ... Bergson on Laughter pt. 2 - Vitalism
Episode #145 ... Bergson on Laughter pt. 1 - History
Episode #144 ... Max Weber - Iron Cage
Episode #143 ... Jürgen Habermas pt. 1 - The Public Sphere
Episode #142 ... Richard Rorty
Episode #141 ... Isaiah Berlin pt. 2 - Pluralism and Culture
Episode #140 ... Isaiah Berlin pt. 1 - Pluralism
Episode #139 ... Friedrich Von Hayek - The Road to Serfdom
Episode #138 ... Robert Nozick - The Minimal State
Episode #137 ... John Rawls - A Theory of Justice
Episode #136 ... Hannah Arendt - The Banality of Evil
Episode 135 ... Leo Strauss - Ancients vs. Moderns
Episode #134 ... Consequences of Reason
Episode #133 ... Carl Schmitt on Liberalism pt. 2
Episode #132 ... Carl Schmitt on Liberalism pt. 1
Episode #131 ... Gramsci - Cultural Hegemony
Episode #130 ... Dewey and Lippman on Democracy
Episode #129 ... Gilles Deleuze pt. 5 - Difference
Episode #128 ... Gilles Deleuze pt. 4 - Flows
Episode #127 ... Gilles Deleuze pt. 3 - Anti-Oedipus
Episode #126 ... Gilles Deleuze pt. 2 - Immanence
Episode #125 ... Gilles Deleuze pt. 1 - What is Philosophy?
Episode #124 ... Simulacra and Simulation
Episode #123 ... Michel Foucault pt. 3 - Power
Episode #122 ... Michel Foucault pt. 2 - The Order of Things
Episode #121 ... Michel Foucault pt. 1
Episode #120 ... Logical Positivism
Episode #119 ... Derrida and Words
Episode #118 ... A Basic Look At Postmodernism
Episode #117 ... Structuralism and Mythology pt. 2
Episode #116 ... Structuralism and Mythology pt. 1
Episode #115 ... Structuralism and Context
Episode #114 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 7 - The Great Refusal
Episode #113 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 6 - Art As A Tool For Liberation
Episode #112 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 5 - Civilization
Episode #111 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 4 - Eros
Episode #110 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 3 - The Culture Industry
Episode #109 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 2 - The Enlightenment
Episode #108 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 1 - Introduction
Episode #107 ... Simone De Beauvoir pt .3 - Responsibility
Episode #106 ... Simone De Beauvoir pt. 2 - The Ethics of Ambiguity
Episode #105 ... Sartre and Camus pt. 6 - The Self
Episode #104 ... Sartre and Camus pt. 5 - Consciousness is Freedom
Episode #103 ... Sartre and Camus pt. 4 - The Quest For Certainty
Episode #102 ... Heidegger pt. 3 - Authenticity
Episode #101 ... Heidegger pt. 2 - Science and Technology
Episode #100 ... Heidegger pt. 1 - Phenomenology and Dasein
Episode #099 ... Schopenhauer pt. 2 - Ethics
Episode #098 ... Schopenhauer pt. 1 - Metaphysics and Love
Episode #097 ... Wittgenstein ep. 1
Episode #096 ... Is Ayn Rand A Philosopher?
Episode #095 ... Are you living in a simulation?
Episode #094 ... A Look at Suffering
Episode #093 ... Nietzsche pt. 4 - Love
Episode #092 ... Nietzsche pt. 3 - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Episode #091 ... Nietzsche pt. 2 - The Will to Power
Episode #090 ... Nietzsche pt. 1 - God is dead and so is Captain Morgan
Episode #089 ... Simone De Beauvoir - The Second Sex
Episode #088 ... Sartre and Camus pt. 3 - The Great Debate
Episode #087 ... Sartre and Camus pt. 2
Episode #086 ... Sartre and Camus pt. 1 - Freedom
Episode #085 ... Peter Singer on Effective Altruism
Episode #084 ... William James on Truth
Episode #083 ... Henry David Thoreau
Episode #082 ... Austrians and Marx
Episode #081 ... Capitalism vs. Communism
Episode #80 ... Feuerbach on Religion
Episode #079 ... Kierkegaard on Anxiety
Episode #078 ... Marx and Kierkegaard on Religion pt. 2
Episode #077 ... Marx and Kierkegaard on Religion pt. 1
Episode #076 ... Hegel's God
Episode #075 ... How To Win An Argument Pt. 2
Episode #074 ... Hegel Returns
Episode #073 ... How To Win An Argument Pt. 1
Episode #072 ... Insecurity
Episode #071 ... Is Killing Animals For Food Morally Justifiable?
Episode #070 ... Off Moodiness
Episode #069 ... An Appeal To Reason
Episode #068 ... On Moodiness
Episode #067 ... What Hegel Was Saying!
Episode #066 ... Hegel pt. 1 - Introduction
Episode #065 ... Mary Wollstonecraft
Episode #064 ... Interpreting Interpretations
Episode #063 ... Kant pt. 8 - Limits of Knowledge
Episode #062 ... Kant pt. 7 - Suicide
Episode #061 ... Kant pt. 6 - What is Enlightenment?
Episode #060 ... Kant pt. 5 - The Sublime
Episode #059 ... Kant pt. 4 - Categorical Trolley Cars
Episode #058 ... Kant pt. 3 - Deontology vs Consequentialism
Episode #057 ... Kant pt. 2 - The Actual Introduction
Episode #056 ... Kant pt. 1 - An Introduction to the Introduction
Episode #055 ... Interview on Hume with Massimo Pigliucci
Episode #054 ... Hume pt. 4 - Art
Episode #053 ... David Hume pt. 3 - Custom
Episode #052 ... David Hume pt. 2 - Design
Episode #051 ... David Hume pt. 1
Episode #050 ... Are You Left Or Right?
Episode #049 ... Adam Smith pt. 2 - The Tip of the Iceberg of Wealth
Episode #048 ... Adam Smith pt. 1 - Specialization
Episode #047 ... Rousseau pt. 3 - The General Will
Episode #046 ... Rousseau pt. 2 - Democracy, Aristocracy or Monarchy?
Episode #045 ... Rousseau Government pt. 1
Episode #044 ... Slavery
Episode #043 ... Tolerance
Episode #042 ... Optimism
Episode #041 ... Belief
Episode #040 ... Superstition
Episode #039 ... The Limits of Empiricism
Episode #038 ... Leibniz pt. 2 - The Best of All Possible Worlds
Episode #037 ... Leibniz pt. 1 - A Million Points of Light
Episode #036 ... John Locke pt. 2 - The Blank Slate
Episode #035 ... John Locke pt. 1
Episode #034 ... Spinoza pt. 2 - Force of Nature
Episode #033 ... Spinoza pt. 1 - From Baruch to Benedicto
Episode #032 ... Blaise Pascal pt. 2 - +EV your way to success!!
Episode #031 ... Pascal's Wager
Episode #030 ... Descartes pt. 3 - God Exists
Episode #029 ... Descartes pt. 2 - See episode description
Episode #028 ... Rene Descartes pt. 1 - Context
Episode #027 ... Thomas Hobbes pt. 2
Episode #026 ... Thomas Hobbes pt. 1 - The Social Contract
Episode #025 ... A Scientific Method For Your Life!
Episode #024 ... Montaigne
Episode #023 ... Machiavelli
Episode #022 ... Blast off to the Renaissance!
Episode #021 ... One God - St. Thomas Aquinas
Episode #020 ... Two Medieval Approaches To God
Episode #019 ... Three Islamic Truths
Episode #018 ... Avicenna
Episode #017 ... Boethius
Episode #016 ... Saint Augustine
Episode #015 ... A Period of Transition - Plotinus
Episode #014 ... The Hellenistic Age Pt. 5 - A Race To The Dark Ages
Episode #013 ... The Hellenistic Age Pt. 4 - Skepticism
Episode #012 ... The Hellenistic Age Pt. 3 - Hallmarks of Stoic Ethics
Episode #011 ... The Hellenistic Age Pt. 2 - The Early Stoa and the Cynics
Episode #010 ... The Hellenistic Age Pt. 1 - Epicurus
Episode #009 ... The Buddha
Episode #008 ... Confucianism
Episode #007 ... Daoism
Episode #006 ... Aristotle Pt. 2
Episode #005 ... Aristotle Pt. 1
Episode #004 ... Plato
Episode #003 ... Socrates and the Sophists
Episode #002 ... Presocratic Philosophy - Italian
Episode #001 ... Presocratic Philosophy - Ionian