The Wes Cecil Podcast

The Wes Cecil Podcast

My lectures are dedicated to making Philosophy in particular and the world of ideas in general available to everyone. My exploration of topics and thinkers is designed to provide a foundation for listeners to engage in further reading and thought and develop their own conceptions of the topics I introduce. I have PhD in Literature and Philosophy and was a college professor for over 20 years. I am working to remove the barriers that prevent many from experiencing and understanding the lives and thoughts of some of the world's greatest thinkers.

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Episoder(240)

The Transvaluation of All Values: You are not a Slave- Ep. 3

The Transvaluation of All Values: You are not a Slave- Ep. 3

YOU ARE NOT A SLAVE:Despite being by almost any measure some of the freest people in history, we consistently use language and express patterns suggesting we are in fact still peasant, serfs or slaves...

11 Jun 20251h 1min

Plato's Symposium: Introduction - Ep. 1

Plato's Symposium: Introduction - Ep. 1

Two main points in this introduction:First, Plato is in deadly earnest in these dialogues trying to work out how his society and his class were crushed in a war and subject to tyranny and what, if any...

9 Jun 202538min

Capitalism: How did we get here? And where are we going? - Real Estate Special - Ep. 13

Capitalism: How did we get here? And where are we going? - Real Estate Special - Ep. 13

Just a follow up to discuss the forces that shape the global real estate market and how our standard response - supply and demand - reveals the degree to which our minds are captured by a wild oversim...

7 Jun 202535min

The Transvaluation of All Values: The Individual and The Community - Ep. 2

The Transvaluation of All Values: The Individual and The Community - Ep. 2

THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COMMUNITY:Another aspect of confusion comes from a loss of our immediate community that throws us onto an ever increasing sense of individualism and, hence, isolation. We strugg...

4 Jun 202559min

Capitalism: How did we get here? And where are we going? Ep. 12

Capitalism: How did we get here? And where are we going? Ep. 12

CONCLUSION:The conclusion to the capitalism series wherein I ramble a bit about the major concepts we have explored and why I think it is so important at this juncture in history to think about the in...

2 Jun 202533min

The Transvaluation of All Values: Scarcity and Abundance - Ep. 1

The Transvaluation of All Values: Scarcity and Abundance - Ep. 1

SCARCITY AND ABUNDANCE:We have inherited a set of values that are a misfit for the world we now inhabit. The tension between our past and our present is creating a strong sense of confusion and disloc...

28 Mai 202559min

Capitalism: How did we get here? And where are we going? Ep. 11

Capitalism: How did we get here? And where are we going? Ep. 11

The past tells us that our future with Capitalism is unlikely to suddenly change. Rather, we are likely to experience a slow evolution of values that undermines and constrains the power of capitalism ...

26 Mai 202537min

Philosophical Fireside Chats 🔥 🪵: Confucius in The Analects—Relative Wisdom - Ep. 13

Philosophical Fireside Chats 🔥 🪵: Confucius in The Analects—Relative Wisdom - Ep. 13

In this short parable from the Analects we see the idea that wisdom is relative both to situations and individuals. This approach to wisdom is markedly different from the notion of universal laws and ...

23 Mai 202511min

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