All Episodes

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