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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An Invitation to Being Human: Ep. 5 - The External and The Internal

An Invitation to Being Human: Ep. 5 - The External and The Internal

The dynamic interplay between the external and internal world is the very core of being human. The degree to which we cultivate ourselves within an experience of the world is the degree to which we ca...

6 Juli 58min

Reading The Bhagavad Gita: Conclusion

Reading The Bhagavad Gita: Conclusion

Congratulations, you’ve read the Gita. Ancient texts are often difficult and a bit offputting but they really help us discover the structures of our own thinking and how our culture has conditioned us...

4 Juli 30min

An Invitation to Being Human: Ep. 4 - Discover Yourself

An Invitation to Being Human: Ep. 4 - Discover Yourself

Bizarrely, in a society that isolates people, we also don’t spend much time with ourselves. Consistently pulled from ourselves, striving for external standards and ignoring our bodies we lose track of...

29 Juni 48min

Reading The Bhagavad Gita: Books 14, 15 & 16

Reading The Bhagavad Gita: Books 14, 15 & 16

We move from the Metaphysical arguments about How the universe is to how we should translate that understanding into our lives. And we finally get the argument for why Arjuna must indeed ride forth to...

26 Juni 28min

An Invitation to Being Human: Ep. 3 - Be a Burden

An Invitation to Being Human: Ep. 3 - Be a Burden

We receive endless messages about the importance of being independent, standing on our own, making something of ourselves and so forth that it is easy to forget this is all nonsense at best and life d...

22 Juni 55min

Reading The Bhagavad Gita: Books 11, 12 & 13

Reading The Bhagavad Gita: Books 11, 12 & 13

The fascinating parallels with the Book of Job in Chapter 11 of the Gita helps to highlight the profound differences between the Hindu and Christian tradition and the concept of the divine at the cent...

19 Juni 25min

An Invitation to Being Human: Ep. 2 - Make Something

An Invitation to Being Human: Ep. 2 - Make Something

It is commonplace and true that we live in a consumer society. Less noticed is that being a consumer casts us in a role as passive non-makers who do not produce and participate but simply define ourse...

15 Juni 51min

Reading The Bhagavad Gita: Books 8, 9 & 10

Reading The Bhagavad Gita: Books 8, 9 & 10

The Atman, Brahman, and Karma are presented quite clearly in book 8 and the implications are then extrapolated in Nine and Ten. These are the key ideas at the heart of Hinduism. The Atman is a challen...

12 Juni 27min

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