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Beginner friendly if listened to in order! For anyone interested in an educational podcast about philosophy where you don't need to be a graduate-level philosopher to understand it. In chronological order, the thinkers and ideas that forged the world we live in are broken down and explained.
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Episode #252 ... Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
with Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Today we talk about Kurt Vonnegut’s book Slaughterhouse-Five. How war stories can distort the reality of war, how trauma can fracture our experience of time and identity, and why Billy Pilgrim becomes attracted to the strange philosophy of the Tralfamadorians. Hope you love it. :) Thank you so muc
Episode #251 ... You Must Change Your Life, Pt. 2 - The Worlds That Make Us
with The Worlds That Make Us
Today we talk more about Peter Sloterdijk’s book You Must Change Your Life. We talk about Heidegger, the subject-object view of the world, how environments form us, symbolic immunity, modern cynicism, vertical tension, base camps, civilizations as collective immune systems, and why Sloterdijk thinks
Episode #250 ... You Must Change Your Life. - Peter Sloterdijk
with Peter Sloterdijk
Today we talk about half of the book You Must Change Your Life by Peter Sloterdijk. From criticism towards views of change that he thinks are far too centered on belief and moral strength, to a reworking of how to view human beings at the level of anthropology. We talk about how our view of religion
Episode #249 ... The Trap of Modern Cynicism - Peter Sloterdijk
with Peter Sloterdijk
Today we talk about the book Critique of Cynical Reason by Peter Sloterdijk. Cynicism as a defense mechanism. Why the cynic isn't crazy. The way it ladders up into institutions and infects things like our language. Diogenes as a counter example of a mode of being that rejects pieces of society. Hope
Episode #248 ... What philosophers say about lying.
with Guest
Today we talk about some of the best arguments for and against lying in the history of philosophy. Hope you love it. :) Sponsor: Nord VPN: https://nordvpn.com/philothis Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/
Episode #247 ... The Failure of the Modern University - Alasdair MacIntyre
with Alasdair MacIntyre
Today we talk about some of Macintyre's later work. How he thinks philosophy isn’t optional. It’s already hiding inside everything we do. How he thinks modern universities create experts who know their field but not what their work fully means. How real education should produce judgment, not just te
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| 1 | DI  Dr Iain McGilchrist @dr_mcgilchrist | Divided Brain Hemispheres+2 | 1 |
