Philosophize This!
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.
- Website
- http://www.philosophizethis.org
- Description
- 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.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-28 08:34
- last episode published
- 2025-03-27 18:38
- publication frequency
- 19.25 days
- Contributors
- Stephen West
- Author
- Stephen West
- Owner
- steve@stephenwestshow.com (steve@stephenwestshow.com)
- Managing editor
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 225
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Education Philosophy Fiction
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-03-27 | We look at Albert Camus' The Plague. We talk about a common misreading from the Myth of Sisyphus. We talk about different cycles of his work from his earlier individual confrontation with the absurd to a more community focus. We talk about solidarity. ... |
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| 2025-03-15 | Today we talk about the book The Stranger by Albert Camus. We talk about why Camus saw himself as an artist and not a philosopher. We talk about happiness. The absurd and it's full implications. The Mediterranean lifestyle. The sun as a symbol of imman... |
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| 2025-03-03 |
Episode #223 ... Religion and the duck-rabbit - Kyoto School pt. 3 Today we talk about the relationship between philosophy and religion. We talk about the duck-rabbit as a metaphor that may have something useful to teach us about the way we experience reality. We talk about the enormous difficulty of fully addressing ... |
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| 2025-02-16 |
Episode #222 ... Dostoevsky - Love in The Brothers Karamazov Today we talk about the philosophical themes around love in The Brothers Karamazov. We talk about Dostoevsky's existential, tragic form of Christianity. Family as a microcosm of society. Active love as an experiential framing. The Grand Inquisitor. Hop... |
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| 2025-02-01 | Today we talk about the book The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky. We talk about the curse of sainthood. The connection between beauty and morality via his moral-aesthetic spectrum. Realism vs. Idealism. And how beauty can save the world. Hope you love it! :... |
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| 2025-01-13 | Today we discuss the philosophical themes of the book Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky. We talk about western liberalism, the lack of moral leadership, the promises of Nihilism, the Madman and the Saint, and Dostoevsky's complicated relationship to faith. H... |
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| 2024-12-23 | Today we talk about the philosophical themes that Dostoevsky had in mind when writing Crime and Punishment. We talk about Russian Nihilism and it's consequences. Rational Utilitarianism and Egoism. A common misunderstanding of Raskolnikov as an embodim... |
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| 2024-12-17 | Today we talk about the philosophical themes of one of Dostoevsky's most famous books: Notes From Underground. We talk about contemplative inertia, the "stone wall" of rationality, utopian socialism, the tension between love and freedom in the modern w... |
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| 2024-12-06 |
Episode #217 ... Religion and Nothingness - Kyoto School pt. 2 - Nishitani Today we talk about expanding our view of what a religious quest includes. The limits of dualistic thinking. Technological enframing and obsession with utility. Self-emptying. Consciousness, Nihility and Sunyata. Sunyata as immanence. Hope you love it!... |
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| 2024-11-18 |
Episode #216 ... The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism - Kyoto School pt. 1 - Nishitani Today we look at the work of Keiji Nishitani. We examine Nihilism in a deeper way than we've ever covered on the podcast before. We talk about The Great Doubt. Zen Buddhism. Sunyata. The self as similar to structural linguistics. Hope you enjoy it! :) ... |
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