Episodios

  • Montaigne's self-fashioning vs. the curated facade of today's self!
    Oct 6 2025

    The French philosopher Montaigne made the exploration of selfhood the most important thing in his life. How does his project compare to today's version of self-fashioning?

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    12 m
  • Optimize this! - The cost of constant improvement
    Oct 3 2025

    Beneath today's trend of optimizing everything lies some deep philosophical and existential problems.

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    10 m
  • Three famous philosophers who were practically unknown in their own time!
    Sep 30 2025

    Ahead of their age, awaiting ours: Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche!

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    16 m
  • The death of expertise is the demise of civilization!
    Sep 26 2025

    Our growing distrust of expertise and of universities is terminally stupid. We will all pay the price.

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    13 m
  • David Abram's The Spell of the Sensuous - Living in attunement with the earth!
    Sep 23 2025

    Abstract time and space sever our ties to place, rhythm, and responsibility! Or so argues the philosopher and ecologist, David Abram!

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    13 m
  • When Religion becomes Shallow
    Sep 18 2025

    When religion becomes shallow it's no longer truly religion. Many philosophers have warned us of this, of religion being reduced to self-serving functions.

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    14 m
  • Julian Jaynes - The Origin of Consciousness and the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, and AI!
    Sep 15 2025

    The American psychologist argued that before modern consciousness, we heard and obeyed the voices of the gods. With AI, is it any different today?

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    14 m
  • A human history of intelligence without kindness - A cautionary analogy for the advent of AI
    Sep 11 2025

    We've set a bleak precedent for what's to come.

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    10 m