Episodios

  • The Poverty of Wealth: Nietzsche on Money and Mediocrity!
    Dec 16 2025

    Nietzsche criticizes our modern infatuation with money-making, an infatuation that he thinks reveals a deep spiritual impoverishment and an erosion of character...... Check out my new book! It's called: The Last Human: How Technology is Changing What it Means to be Human
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    13 m
  • In the spirit of Christmas - Why the path of self-interest will always fail you
    Dec 9 2025

    Self-interest is directionless and ultimately, is an enemy of both self-actualization and love. For these things, we need a relation to something outside of our own egos.

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    18 m
  • Walter Benjamin - Against the Copy: Holding On to the Real in an Age of Reproduction!
    Dec 3 2025

    When everything can be reproduced, why do we still crave the original? The psychologist Paul Bloom and the philosopher Walter Benjamin offer up some insight! ... Check out my new book! It's called: The Last Human: How Technology is Changing What it Means to be Human
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    14 m
  • Barthes, Kierkegaard, Han - What happened to the erotic?
    Nov 27 2025

    What is eroticism? And does it still exist today? Find out more!

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    14 m
  • Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund - Pick a path, pay the price, live the life!
    Nov 21 2025

    Choosing one path in life means letting go of another! And that's okay!

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    14 m
  • Bertrand Russell and Byung-Chul Han: Self-absorption is the source of unhappiness!
    Nov 18 2025

    The philosophers Russell and Han come from different historical contexts, but they both agree on one thing: if you want to be happy stop being pre-occupied with yourself!

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    13 m
  • Great philosophers on how to stay young as we get older!
    Nov 14 2025

    Aging doesn't have to involve loss of possibilities and heaviness. Just ask Nietzsche, the Taoists, Hannah Arendt and Camus!

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    10 m
  • Why Samuel Beckett is so funny!
    Nov 10 2025

    Beckett is bleak but he's also hilarious. I try to explore why so many of us laugh when we read him!

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    12 m