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)

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide, Ep. 11 - Contempt and Scarcity

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide, Ep. 11 - Contempt and Scarcity

The emotional sense of contempt for others and the concept of scarcity are relentlessly promoted and reinforced as a NECESSARY corollary to the Late Capitalist worldview. By holding both other people ...

26 Jan 59min

Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 9

Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 9

Nietzsche reiterates his elitist ideals and focuses on the challenges of communication across one’s cultural assumptions. He points out the difficulties of being both misunderstood and outside even of...

23 Jan 29min

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide, Ep. 10 - Four Autopsies

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide, Ep. 10 - Four Autopsies

Here are four examples rising from the very personal and small - gift cards - to the national and international difficulties facing governments trying to deal with the rising costs of retirement. The ...

19 Jan 48min

Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 8

Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 8

Chapter II presents a different direction for Nietzsche to attack contemporary philosophical modes by emphasizing how the obsession with TRUTH has warped the outlook of most philosophers and led them ...

16 Jan 34min

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide, Ep. 9 - Governments (Part 2)

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide, Ep. 9 - Governments (Part 2)

Along with the productivity myth, the GDP myth misleads our decision makers and obscures key aspects of our economic reality - there has actually been rather slow GDP growth for decades and much of wh...

12 Jan 51min

Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 7

Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 7

Nietzsche emphasizes the difficulties we will encounter as we attempt to abandon morals and see the world as it is -free from natural laws and order and subject only to the interplay of power. If noth...

9 Jan 20min

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide - Addendum - Strikes at The Louvre

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide - Addendum - Strikes at The Louvre

An example of what it means to think with VALUES as opposed to FINANCE. Not saying the workers are correct, though I agree with them, but that their arguments are coming from an entirely different val...

7 Jan 13min

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide, Ep. 8 - Governments (Part 1)

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide, Ep. 8 - Governments (Part 1)

Democratic governments are globally unpopular and part of the reason is the bind the Late Capitalist logic places them in. Growth and investment GOOD we should do MORE so everything keeps getting BETT...

5 Jan 47min

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