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 simil...
18 Nov 202433min
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 a...
30 Okt 202431min
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 t...
21 Okt 202437min
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 ene...
13 Okt 202437min
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 throug...
30 Sep 202438min
Episode #211 ... Nietzsche returns with a hammer!
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 contex...
22 Sep 202440min
Episode #210 ... The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire, Education)
We talk about Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. His critique of the banking model of education. The importance of critical consciousness. His Existentialist influence. The dialectic between op...
12 Sep 202438min
Episode #209 ... Improving our world through applied ethics. (Peter Singer, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek)
Today we talk about Peter Singer's response to an anticapitalist critique of his work. Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek's thoughts on the wrong ways to be thinking about ethical terminology. Philosophy in sc...
26 Aug 202436min
