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
- 2025-01-14 01:26
- last episode published
- 2025-01-13 04:39
- publication frequency
- 19.35 days
- Contributors
- Stephen West
- Author
- Stephen West
- Owner
- steve@stephenwestshow.com (steve@stephenwestshow.com)
- Managing editor
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 220
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- Categories
- Society & Culture Education Philosophy Fiction
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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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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| 2024-10-30 |
Episode #215 ... How Mysticism is missing in our modern lives. (Critchley, Heidegger) Today we talk about whether it's possible to achieve not just freedom of the will, but freedom from the will. The technological enframing of reality from the perspective of Heidegger. Misconceptions about Mysticism. The ways that modern life prevents u... |
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| 2024-10-21 |
Episode #214 ... Framing our Being in a completely different way. (Heidegger) Today we look at Heidegger's critique of metaphysics and the traditional subject-object framing in philosophy. How multiple framings are necessary for a fuller picture of our being. His challenge to thinkers like Nietzsche and Descartes. Dasein, the li... |
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| 2024-10-13 |
Episode #213 ... Deleuze Interprets Nietzsche (Difference, Joy, Affirmation) Today we talk about Deleuze's interpretation of Nietzsche's work. We talk about difference taken to radical new levels. The image of thought from the history of philosophy. Nietzsche framed as the enemy to the dialectic. Active vs Reactive forces. Dele... |
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| 2024-09-30 |
Episode #212 ... Nietzsche and Critchley on the tragic perspective. (Amor Fati pt. 2) Today we begin by talking about Nietzsche's concept of life-affirmation. Contrasting it with the renunciative, rational traditions of Western thought. The episode then delves into Greek tragedy through the lens of Simon Critchley's work; making a case ... |
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| 2024-09-22 | Today we talk about Nietzsche's views on the decay of western society. We talk about his problems with Socrates. The genealogy of Egalitarianism that has led to our modern societies, and how to contextualize his concept of the Ubermensch within modern ... |
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