Philosophize This!

Stephen West 252 - Episode #252 ... Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

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.

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Philosophize This!

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Episode #252 ... Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Episode #251 ... You Must Change Your Life, Pt. 2 - The Worlds That Make Us

Episode #250 ... You Must Change Your Life. - Peter Sloterdijk

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

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

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

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

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

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

Episode #243 ... Hamlet - William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

Episode #238 ... Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

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

Episode #236 ... Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

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

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

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

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

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

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

Episode #229 - Kafka and Totalitarianism (Arendt, Adorno)

Episode #228 ... Albert Camus - Kafka and The Fall

Episode #227 ... Albert Camus - On Exile

Episode #226 - Albert Camus - The Rebel

Episode #225 ... Albert Camus - The Plague

Episode #224 ... Albert Camus - The Stranger

Episode #223 ... Religion and the duck-rabbit - Kyoto School pt. 3

Episode #222 ... Dostoevsky - Love in The Brothers Karamazov

Episode #221 ... Dostoevsky - The Idiot

Episode #220 ... Dostoevsky - Demons

Episode #219 ... Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment

Episode #218 ... Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground

Episode #217 ... Religion and Nothingness - Kyoto School pt. 2 - Nishitani

Episode #216 ... The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism - Kyoto School pt. 1 - Nishitani

Episode #215 ... How Mysticism is missing in our modern lives. (Critchley, Heidegger)

Episode #214 ... Framing our Being in a completely different way. (Heidegger)

Episode #213 ... Deleuze Interprets Nietzsche (Difference, Joy, Affirmation)

Episode #212 ... Nietzsche and Critchley on the tragic perspective. (Amor Fati pt. 2)

Episode #211 ... Nietzsche returns with a hammer!

Episode #210 ... The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire, Education)

Episode #209 ... Improving our world through applied ethics. (Peter Singer, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek)

Episode #208 ... The moral evolution of a philosopher. (Peter Singer)

Episode #207 ... Fear is toxic to a democracy. (Martha Nussbaum)

Episode #206 ... Capitalism is dead. This is Technofeudalism. (Yanis Varoufakis)

Episode #205 ... Why a meritocracy is corrosive to society. (Michael Sandel)

Episode #204 ... The importance of philosophy, justice and the common good. (Michael Sandel)

Episode #203 ... Why the future is being slowly cancelled. - Postmodernism (Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism)