Philosophy Club Afterthoughts! How to be Free.

Philosophy Club Afterthoughts! How to be Free.

No question so concerns our collective humanity as that of freedom. Unsatisfied with our first conclusions on the subject, Ben and I reframe the question of Liberty. Perhaps it is not choice maximizes freedom (to the credit of Kitty as well from the last episode, no quantity of colorful consumer choices which line the shelves of our stores and line our streets with briefly used garbage add even an ounce of real freedom to our lives) but there are certain higher order freedoms that outline what it is to lead a free life. If we but look to the Federalist Papers or the Preamble to our United States Constitution, we find a treasured attempt to outline freedoms by demarcating the limits of government power. It is from this angle, we re-attempt to discover what it is that makes us free.

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Episoder(36)

Does Wisdom Exist?

Does Wisdom Exist?

Logan tells Aaqib and Ben that he has doubts that Wisdom exists at all. Might Wisdom not be an empty term? For who can be wise if it takes a single foolish act to make you foolish? What is there for w...

20 Aug 1h 25min

What is Education For? And What is it Missing?

What is Education For? And What is it Missing?

With dash and their typical circumambulatory style, Logan, Ben, Sara, Kitty and Aaqib ask what is education for? There are several answers, perhaps none of which we stumble on. Undaunted, we do discov...

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What Are 100 Things Everyone Should Learn?

What Are 100 Things Everyone Should Learn?

In an effort to better understand education, Ben, Kitty and Logan ask each other for 100 things every American should learn? What should make the list may tell us something about the purposes of educa...

5 Aug 1h 46min

The Baggage Claim Effect and Limited Determinism

The Baggage Claim Effect and Limited Determinism

The Butterfly Effect is the common term for a system where small changes to initial conditions create outsized impacts. Logan, Katie and Ben discuss the "Baggage Claim Effect," to describe a system wh...

13 Mai 1h 14min

Non-Consensual Governance

Non-Consensual Governance

After a six-month hiatus, Logan and Ben come back to dismiss "Consent of the Governed" and move on to what happens next. If consent of the governed does not dictate good governance, what does? We roll...

16 Feb 1h 9min

What is Justice? Parsing through Plato, Habitual Obedience and Batman.

What is Justice? Parsing through Plato, Habitual Obedience and Batman.

Is Justice getting what you deserve? Is it perhaps the balance of wisdom moderation and courage? Or is Justice a chimerical idea we are fed to go along with authority?Beau, Ben and Logan begin to tack...

3 Jul 202545min

How to be Free.

How to be Free.

Logan asks Kitty, Mike and Ben "what is Liberty? Is it the most choice? Is it the least obligation? Is it the least arbitrary system?"There is perhaps no concept so central to humanity as freedom. Eve...

23 Mai 20251h 23min

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