All Episodes

Episode #252 ... Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

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