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Not School Digest #3: The Future of Work, Blood Meridian, Embodied Mind, and Heidegger 23 Aug 2013 | 06:39 am
Excerpts of discussions about Frithjof Bergmann’s New Work, New Culture, Cormac McCarthy’s novel Blood Meridian, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought by Geor...
Episode 80: Heidegger on our Existential Situation 9 Aug 2013 | 04:16 am
On Martin Heidegger’s “Letter on Humanism” (1949). What’s our place in the world? What is it, really, to be human? Heidegger thought that being human hinges on having a proper relationship to Being. ...
Precognition of Ep. 81: Jung 6 Aug 2013 | 10:03 pm
An introduction to Carl Jung’s Man and His Symbols, read by Wes Alwan. We’ll have a full episode on to be released in a few weeks. Read more about the topic. Get Wes’s transcript.
Episode 79: Heraclitus on Understanding the World 15 Jul 2013 | 10:09 am
Eva Brann discusses her book The Logos of Heraclitus (2011). What is the world like, and how can we understand it? Heraclitus thinks that the answer to both questions is found in “the logos,” which i...
Precognition of Ep. 80: Heidegger 14 Jul 2013 | 11:13 pm
A short summary of Heidegger’s “Essay on Humanism,” which we’ll have a full episode on to be released in a few weeks, read by Seth Paskin. This is a new kind of mini-episode for us, and you should te...
Episode 78: Ayn Rand on Living Rationally 1 Jul 2013 | 12:53 pm
On Rand’s Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (1967) and “The Objectivist Ethics” (1961). First Rand grounds everyday human knowledge, largely by dismissing the concerns of other philosophers (e...
Episode 77: Santayana on the Appreciation of Beauty 9 Jun 2013 | 08:14 pm
On George Santayana’s The Sense of Beauty (1896). What are we saying when we call something “beautiful?” Are we pointing out an objective quality that other people (anyone?) can ferret out, or just es...
Episode 77: Santayana on the Appreciation of Beauty 9 Jun 2013 | 08:14 pm
On George Santayana’s The Sense of Beauty (1896). What are we saying when we call something “beautiful?” Are we pointing out an objective quality that other people (anyone?) can ferret out, or just e...
Episode 76: Deleuze on What Philosophy Is 14 May 2013 | 10:45 pm
On Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s What Is Philosophy? (1991). How is philosophy different from science and art? What’s the relationship between different philosophies? Is better pursued solo, or ...
Episode 76: Deleuze on What Philosophy Is 14 May 2013 | 10:45 pm
On Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s What Is Philosophy? (1991). How is philosophy different from science and art? What’s the relationship between different philosophies? Is better pursued solo, or...
