PREMIUM-Episode 33: Montaigne: What Is the Purpose of Philosophy?
Discussing Michel de Montaigne's Essays: "That to Philosophize is to Learn to Die," "Of Experience," "Of Cannibals," "Of the Education of Children," and "Of Solitude" (all from around 1580) with some ...
18 Feb 201132min
PREMIUM-Episode 32: Heidegger: What is "Being?"
Discussing Martin Heidegger's Being and Time (1927), mostly the intro and ch. 1 and 2 of Part 1.
8 Feb 201132min
PREMIUM-Episode 31: Husserl's Phenomenology
Discussing Edmund Husserl's Cartesian Meditations (1931).
10 Jan 201131min
PREMIUM-Episode 30: Schopenhauer on Explanations and Knowledge
Discussing Arthur Schopenhauer's On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, published in 1847 (as an expansion of his doctoral thesis from 1813).
19 Des 201032min
PREMIUM-Episode 29: Kierkegaard on the Self
On Soren Kierkegaard's "The Sickness Unto Death" (1849). With guest Daniel Horne.
21 Nov 201031min
PREMIUM-Episode 28: Nelson Goodman on Art as Epistemology
Discussing Goodman's Ways of Worldmaking (1978). With guest painter Jay Bailey.
1 Nov 201031min
PREMIUM-Episode 27: Nagarjuna on Buddhist "Emptiness"
Primarily discussing "Reasoning: The Sixty Stanzas" and "Emptiness: The Seventy Stanzas," by the 2nd century Indian Buddhist Nagarjuna. With guest Erik Douglas.
10 Okt 201031min
PREMIUM-Episode 26: Freud on the Human Condition
Discussing Freud's Civilization and its Discontents (1930). Get the full episode at partiallyexaminedlife.com. For Wes Alwan's summary of this book, go here).
25 Sep 201032min
