David Hume & The Impotence of Reason
The British Empiricist, David Hume, wrote: "reason alone can never be a motive to any action of the will". If Hume is right, and the thing that separates us from the beasts, our ability to reason, i...
27 Sep 201912min
A Horseman in the Sky
Filled with amazement and terror by this apparition of a horseman in the sky - half believing himself the chosen scribe of some new Apocalypse, [he] was overcome by the intensity of his emotions; his ...
20 Sep 201921min
Life Is Still a Pigsty
In our thinking and in our doing we presume that life is meaningful. We believe our decisions matters. We believe our lives matter. We assume there really is a right and wrong and that it's all goi...
13 Sep 201910min
RLP Special: Conan the Barbarian & Philosophy
There is a story we're telling with our podcast. It's going somewhere. We love stories, we need stories, because stories are about life. We have used other stories to help tell our story: The Lo...
30 Aug 201916min
RLP Special: The Smiths, Morrissey & Philosophy
Season 1 is a wrap. As we prepare for the 2nd season, we have a couple of slightly different episodes for you. What we've been trying to communicate philosophically - that life is strange, and in t...
16 Aug 201914min
Plato's Cave, Pt. 2
This world, this material reality before us, is like a cave. It's not an illusion. It's real, but it is not ultimately real. There is something above and beyond it. Appearance doesn't always match ...
2 Aug 201910min
Plato's Cave, Pt. 1
Our world is a spooky place. Consider that we live in a universe, not a diverse. The things of the world must have something in common. What is it? Life is movement. When you don't move, you die. B...
19 Juli 20199min
RLP Holiday: A Strange Revolution
July 4th is Independence Day in the United States. Whether you are American or not, and most of humanity is not, the story of the American revolution is a strange one: mysterious events, inexplicable ...
4 Juli 20198min
