Episode #012 - Hannah Arendt: Power, Evil, and the Life of the Mind
In 1961, a political philosopher traveled to Jerusalem to cover a trial for The New Yorker. The man on trial was Adolf Eichmann — one of the primary administrators of the Holocaust. She expected a mon...
29 Jun 33min
Episode #011 - The Trolley Problem and the Architecture of Moral Thinking
DESCRIPTIONYou have probably heard the trolley problem. A runaway trolley, five people on the tracks, a lever that will divert it — but kill one person instead. Most people say pull the lever. Then co...
22 Jun 30min
Episode #010 - Simone de Beauvoir and the Construction of Self
You did not find yourself. You are making yourself. And the conditions under which that making is happening are not neutral.That is the core claim of Simone de Beauvoir's philosophy — and it reaches f...
14 Jun 18min
Episode #009 - The Philosophy of Love: What Are You Actually Looking For?
Most people approach love with a list. Values they want shared, a lifestyle that fits, a feeling that arrives and confirms they have found the right person. Philosophy has a different question: what i...
7 Jun 30min
Episode #008 - Cognitive Bias: The Philosophy Behind the Shortcuts
You think you know why you believe what you believe. You probably do not.Not because you are careless or unintelligent—but because the part of your mind doing most of the work is fast, automatic, and ...
31 Mai 32min
Episode #007 - Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem: The Proof That Broke Mathematics
Most of us were raised on an implicit promise: that if you think carefully enough, gather enough evidence, and reason rigorously enough, you can in principle get to the bottom of any question. Science...
24 Mai 33min
Episode #006 - Aristotle's Happiness: Why Feeling Good Is Not the Same as Living Well
There is a question most people do not ask out loud but almost everyone thinks about. Not "am I happy right now" — that one changes by the hour. The harder question is: is this a good life? Is the lif...
17 Mai 36min
Episode #005 - The Philosophy of Grief: What the Best Thinkers Actually Said About Loss
Grief is not a stage you pass through. It is not a staircase with acceptance waiting at the top. And the five-stage model you probably learned—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance—was...
10 Mai 24min
