RLP Special: Stranger Things - A Prequel
Sometimes things are not what they seem. Sometimes life is strange. The realization that appearance does not always mirror reality, or that appearance does not exhaust reality is ancient, ancient yet ...
4 Juli 201913min
Narrative and Reality
Beware the myths, the narratives, about you; for they may enlighten our minds and sharpen our perception of the world, but they may also darken our minds and dull our perception of the world.
21 Juni 201912min
The Fall of Gyges
Fame? Fortune? Frivolity? What would you give, and what would you do, to possess these things permanently? What price would you pay? What if the health and wealth of the outer woman came at the pri...
7 Juni 201913min
The Ring of Gyges
Are we evil by nature? Are we good by nature? Or does our nature, if we have a nature, lie somewhere between good and evil? Suppose you were given a ring - a ring that made you invisible before God a...
24 Maj 201912min
Beelzebub
What to do with evil? (Fight it? Deny it? Flee from it?) How to understand it? (Is it real, is it illusion, or is it something else entirely?) How to know what follows and what doesn't follow from its...
10 Maj 201913min
Whence Evil?
"Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil? Is he neither able nor willi...
26 Apr 201914min
Be Quick, But Don't Hurry
If you can't generalize, you can't see patterns in life, and if you can't see patterns in life, then you can't be wise. In this episode we explore the nature of wisdom.
12 Apr 20199min
And Then There Were Four
Identity, content, origin, destiny: who are you? What are you composed of? Where do you come from? Where are you going? Four questions, four ingredients in the making of a meaningful life. To know whe...
29 Mars 201913min
