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Episode #249 ... The Trap of Modern Cynicism - Peter Sloterdijk

June 27, 2026 1:47pm 34 min

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. Dioge...

Episode #248 ... What philosophers say about lying.

May 31, 2026 10:31am 36 min

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 ...

Episode #247 ... The Failure of the Modern University - Alasdair MacIntyre

May 10, 2026 12:13pm 28 min

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...

Episode #246 ... The Myth of the Self-Made Person - Alasdair Macintyre

April 26, 2026 12:24pm 32 min

Today we talk about Macintyre's book Dependent Rational Animals. Hope you love it. :) Sponsors: Nord VPN: https://nordvpn.com/philothis  Saily: https://www.saily.com/philothis Thank you so much for listening! Could ...

Episode #245 ... The Rival Moral Approaches of the Modern World - Alasdair Macintyre

April 12, 2026 10:08am 32 min

Today we talk about the book Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry by Alasdair Macintyre. We talk about each of the different sets of assumptions people bring to moral debates that often contain the true location of the ...

Episode #244 ... After Virtue - Alasdair MacIntyre (why moral conversations feel unsatisfying)

February 11, 2026 5:21pm 36 min

Today we talk about the book After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre. We talk about his genealogy of moral discourse. The teleologies of Aristotle. The failure of the Enlightenment moral project. Our modern culture of Emotivi...

Episode #243 ... Hamlet - William Shakespeare

December 26, 2025 6:43pm 30 min

Today we talk about the play Hamlet written by William Shakespeare. We compare more traditional takes on the themes of the play to a more modern, philosophical analysis of the play done by Simon Critchley and Jamieson We...

Episode #242 ... Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare

November 29, 2025 9:26am 31 min

Today we talk about the philosophy behind the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. We talk about how ineffective violence and honor codes are as ways of maintaining the stability of a society. How catastrophe ma...

Episode #241 ... The Tragedy of Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare

November 16, 2025 3:47pm 29 min

Today we talk about the philosophical themes of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. We talk about the hypocrisy and false nostalgia of political violence. The ironies of living by a moral ideal like hono...

Episode #240 ... Varieties of Religion Today (Charles Taylor)

November 08, 2025 4:45pm 29 min

Today we talk more about the work of Charles Taylor and his book The Varieties of Religion Today. We look at different answers to a classic question around religious belief. The sociological and structural role that reli...

Episode #239 ... Authenticity and the history of the self. (Charles Taylor)

October 17, 2025 3:11pm 34 min

Today we talk about the work of the philosopher Charles Taylor. First, we trace the historical origins of how he views the modern self. From the Greeks to the Reformation. From Descartes to Rousseau. The modern self to h...

Episode #238 ... Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

October 08, 2025 9:52am 29 min

Today we talk about the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. We talk about the mix of Romantic and Enlightenment attitudes and how it leads to problems without the proper oversight. We talk about technology and the respons...

Episode #237 ... The Stoics Are Wrong - Nietzsche, Schopenhauer

September 30, 2025 4:01pm 28 min

Today we talk about two famous critiques of Stoicism. One by Friedrich Nietzsche who thought the Stoics weren’t life affirming enough and so rob themselves of some of the best parts of life. The other by Arthur Schopenha...

Episode #236 ... Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

September 12, 2025 8:41pm 34 min

Today we talk about the collection of journals known as Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. We mark the differences between Stoicism, modern Stoic ethics, and the journals of Marcus Aurelius. We talk about the divine logos, ...

Episode #235 ... The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism - Byung Chul Han

September 03, 2025 7:33pm 37 min

Today we talk about one of Han's earlier books where he offers an alternative to classic western ideas about subjectivity. We talk about Zen as a religion without God. Substance and emptiness. Alternatives to the reified...

Episode #234 ... The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

August 13, 2025 8:57am 32 min

Today we try to produce a philosophical guide for the book The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. We talk about Parmenides, Nietzsche's eternal recurrence, kitsch as something more than just an aesthetic cat...

Episode #233 ... A philosophy of self-destruction. (Dostoevsky, Bataille)

August 04, 2025 11:01am 30 min

Today we talk about two different theories for why we ritualize self-destructive behavior. We check out a lesser-known work from Dostoevsky called The Gambler. We consider how much we can hold people morally accountable ...

Episode #232 ... Byung Chul Han - The Crisis of Narration

July 07, 2025 3:50pm 29 min

Today we talk about the book The Crisis of Narration by the philosopher Byung Chul Han. We talk about the history of storytelling. Walter Benjamins distinction between a Paris fire and a revolution in Madrid. The effects...

Episode #231 ... The Late Work of Wittgenstein - Language Games

June 28, 2025 5:53pm 26 min

Today we talk about the late work of Wittgenstein in Philosophical Investigations. We talk about the meaning of words. Augustine's theory. Forms of life. Rules and practices. Grammar. Geometry. Family resemblance. And th...

Episode #230 ... Hope as an Existentialism (Ernst Bloch)

June 14, 2025 6:51pm 28 min

Today we talk about the early work of Ernst Bloch. Hope as anticipatory consciousness. The darkness of the lived moment. Educated hope vs false hope. Music as an experiential metaphysics and gateway to the Not-Yet. Hope ...

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