Philosophize This!

Stephen West

Philosophize This! with Stephen West. 253 episodes in the official feed, 129 hr 46 min of listening. Free official feed published by the creator.

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253 episodes · 129 hr 46 min

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253

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1. Episode #253 ... The Philosophy of Alan Watts - What Am I? 36:04
2. Episode #252 ... Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut 35:41
3. Episode #251 ... You Must Change Your Life, Pt. 2 - The Worlds That Make Us 35:25
4. Episode #250 ... You Must Change Your Life. - Peter Sloterdijk 35:59
5. Episode #249 ... The Trap of Modern Cynicism - Peter Sloterdijk 34:23
6. Episode #248 ... What philosophers say about lying. 36:53
7. Episode #247 ... The Failure of the Modern University - Alasdair MacIntyre 28:53
8. Episode #246 ... The Myth of the Self-Made Person - Alasdair Macintyre 32:41
9. Episode #245 ... The Rival Moral Approaches of the Modern World - Alasdair Macintyre 32:31
10. Episode #244 ... After Virtue - Alasdair MacIntyre (why moral conversations feel unsatisfying) 36:51
11. Episode #243 ... Hamlet - William Shakespeare 29:27
12. Episode #242 ... Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare 30:04
13. Episode #241 ... The Tragedy of Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare 29:45
14. Episode #240 ... Varieties of Religion Today (Charles Taylor) 29:29
15. Episode #239 ... Authenticity and the history of the self. (Charles Taylor) 34:50
16. Episode #238 ... Frankenstein - Mary Shelley 29:03
17. Episode #237 ... The Stoics Are Wrong - Nietzsche, Schopenhauer 28:54
18. Episode #236 ... Meditations - Marcus Aurelius 34:42
19. Episode #235 ... The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism - Byung Chul Han 36:56
20. Episode #234 ... The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera 32:42
21. Episode #233 ... A philosophy of self-destruction. (Dostoevsky, Bataille) 30:42
22. Episode #232 ... Byung Chul Han - The Crisis of Narration 29:33
23. Episode #231 ... The Late Work of Wittgenstein - Language Games 25:53
24. Episode #230 ... Hope as an Existentialism (Ernst Bloch) 28:28
25. Episode #229 - Kafka and Totalitarianism (Arendt, Adorno) 28:49
26. Episode #228 ... Albert Camus - Kafka and The Fall 30:12
27. Episode #227 ... Albert Camus - On Exile 34:28
28. Episode #226 - Albert Camus - The Rebel 31:56
29. Episode #225 ... Albert Camus - The Plague 30:06
30. Episode #224 ... Albert Camus - The Stranger 28:53
31. Episode #223 ... Religion and the duck-rabbit - Kyoto School pt. 3 33:40
32. Episode #222 ... Dostoevsky - Love in The Brothers Karamazov 38:43
33. Episode #221 ... Dostoevsky - The Idiot 36:09
34. Episode #220 ... Dostoevsky - Demons 38:27
35. Episode #219 ... Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment 32:14
36. Episode #218 ... Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground 33:48
37. Episode #217 ... Religion and Nothingness - Kyoto School pt. 2 - Nishitani 44:48
38. Episode #216 ... The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism - Kyoto School pt. 1 - Nishitani 34:07
39. Episode #215 ... How Mysticism is missing in our modern lives. (Critchley, Heidegger) 29:51
40. Episode #214 ... Framing our Being in a completely different way. (Heidegger) 35:12
41. Episode #213 ... Deleuze Interprets Nietzsche (Difference, Joy, Affirmation) 34:25
42. Episode #212 ... Nietzsche and Critchley on the tragic perspective. (Amor Fati pt. 2) 35:57
43. Episode #211 ... Nietzsche returns with a hammer! 37:54
44. Episode #210 ... The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire, Education) 36:26
45. Episode #209 ... Improving our world through applied ethics. (Peter Singer, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek) 33:03
46. Episode #208 ... The moral evolution of a philosopher. (Peter Singer) 41:39
47. Episode #207 ... Fear is toxic to a democracy. (Martha Nussbaum) 33:27
48. Episode #206 ... Capitalism is dead. This is Technofeudalism. (Yanis Varoufakis) 34:51
49. Episode #205 ... Why a meritocracy is corrosive to society. (Michael Sandel) 30:41
50. Episode #204 ... The importance of philosophy, justice and the common good. (Michael Sandel) 35:25
51. Episode #203 ... Why the future is being slowly cancelled. - Postmodernism (Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism) 40:48
52. Episode #202 ... Why we can't think beyond capitalism. - Neoliberalism (Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism) 36:27
53. Episode #201 ... Resistance, Love, and the importance of Failure. (Zizek, Byung Chul Han) 38:09
54. Episode #200 ... The Postmodern subject and "ideology without ideology" (Zizek, Byung Chul Han, Marx) 35:12
55. Episode #199 ... A conservative communist's take on global capitalism and desire. (Zizek, Marx, Lacan) 45:11
56. Episode #198 ... The truth is in the process. - Zizek pt. 3 (ideology, dialectics) 38:22
57. Episode #197 ... New Atheists and cosmic purpose without God - (Zizek, Goff, Nagel) 39:38
58. Episode #196 ... The improbable Slavoj Zizek - Part 1 34:53
59. Episode #195 ... Could Anarcho-Capitalism be the solution to our problems? - Anarchism pt. 4 (Rothbard, Friedman, Malice) 32:19
60. Episode #194 ... Do we really need the police? - Anarchism pt. 3 - (Gelderloos, Security) 32:41
61. Episode #193 ...The chief export of the western world is trash. - Anarchism pt. 2 (Bookchin, Social Ecology) 33:20
62. Episode #192 ... Should we overthrow the government tomorrow? - Anarchism pt. 1 (Chomsky, Malatesta) 29:03
63. Episode #191 ... The modern day concentration camp and the failure of human rights. (Giorgio Agamben) 30:15
64. Episode #190 ... Are emotions a waste of time? - Neo-Stoicism (Martha Nussbaum) 32:30
65. Episode #189 ... Everything that connects us is slowly disappearing. - Byung Chul Han pt. 2 31:47
66. Episode #188 ... Achievement Society and the rise of narcissism, depression and anxiety - Byung-Chul Han 33:27
67. Episode #187 ... How much freedom would you trade for security? (Foucault, Hobbes, Mill, Agamben) 38:18
68. Episode #186 ... Are we heading for a digital prison? - Panopticon (Foucault, Bentham, Cave) 37:44
69. Episode #185 ... Should we prepare for an AI revolution? 34:44
70. Episode #184 ... Is Artificial Intelligence really an existential risk? 35:49
71. Episode #183 ... Is ChatGPT really intelligent? 30:30
72. Episode #182 ... What if free will is an illusion? 28:53
73. Episode #181 ... What if consciousness is an illusion? 25:12
74. Episode #180 ... What if everything is consciousness? - Phillip Goff on Panpsychism 36:19
75. Episode #179 ... Why is consciousness something worth talking about? 36:45
76. Episode #178 ... Susan Sontag - How Much Is Your View Of Everything Affected By Metaphors? 37:25
77. Episode #177 ... Susan Sontag - Do you speak the language of pictures and videos? 33:27
78. Episode #176 ... Susan Sontag - Do you criticize yourself the way you criticize a movie? 33:35
79. Episode #175 ... Simone Weil - Vessels of God 28:38
80. Episode #174 ... Simone Weil - The Mathematician 30:59
81. Episode #173 ... Simone Weil - The Need for Roots 32:07
82. Episode #172 ... Simone Weil - Attention 38:17
83. Episode #171 ... Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle 40:36
84. Episode #170 ... Albert Camus - The Fall 39:21
85. Episode #169 ... Bruno Latour - We Have Never Been Modern 29:40
86. Episode #168 ... Introduction to an Ethics of Care 43:14
87. Episode #167 ... Jose Ortega - Revolt of the Masses 27:21
88. Episode #166 ... Jose Ortega - Circumstance 30:53
89. Episode #165 ... Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature and Other Things 28:46
90. Episode #164 ... Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self Reliance 34:29
91. Episode #163 ... The Creation of Meaning - Escape From Evil 30:44
92. Episode #162 ... The Creation of Meaning - The Denial of Death 27:19
93. Episode #161 ... Karl Popper - The Open Society and Its Enemies 32:47
94. Episode #160 ... The Creation of Meaning - Kierkegaard - Silence, Obedience and Joy 37:12
95. Episode #159 ... The Creation of Meaning - Nietzsche - Amor Fati 30:10
96. Episode #158 ... The Creation of Meaning - Nietzsche - The Ascetic Ideal 31:49
97. Episode #157 ... The Creation of Meaning - Beauvoir 25:39
98. Episode #156 ... Emil Cioran part 2 - Failure and Suicide 29:44
99. Episode #155 ... Emil Cioran - Absurdity and Nothingness 24:02
100. Episode #154 ... Pragmatism and Truth 21:41
101. Episode #153 ... The Frankfurt School - Walter Benjamin pt. 2 - Distraction 25:29
102. Episode #152 ... The Frankfurt School - Walter Benjamin pt. 1 24:41
103. Episode #151 ... The Frankfurt School - Erich Fromm on Freedom 26:37
104. Episode #150 ... The Frankfurt School - Erich Fromm on Love 23:06
105. Episode #149 ... On Media pt. 2 - Marshall McLuhan 27:18
106. Episode #148 ... On Media pt. 1 - Manufacturing Consent 25:46
107. Episode #147 ... Being and Becoming 23:53
108. Episode #146 ... Bergson on Laughter pt. 2 - Vitalism 26:23
109. Episode #145 ... Bergson on Laughter pt. 1 - History 24:27
110. Episode #144 ... Max Weber - Iron Cage 24:59
111. Episode #143 ... Jürgen Habermas pt. 1 - The Public Sphere 26:18
112. Episode #142 ... Richard Rorty 30:03
113. Episode #141 ... Isaiah Berlin pt. 2 - Pluralism and Culture 24:15
114. Episode #140 ... Isaiah Berlin pt. 1 - Pluralism 23:30
115. Episode #139 ... Friedrich Von Hayek - The Road to Serfdom 24:12
116. Episode #138 ... Robert Nozick - The Minimal State 24:05
117. Episode #137 ... John Rawls - A Theory of Justice 28:26
118. Episode #136 ... Hannah Arendt - The Banality of Evil 30:11
119. Episode 135 ... Leo Strauss - Ancients vs. Moderns 26:51
120. Episode #134 ... Consequences of Reason 26:50
121. Episode #133 ... Carl Schmitt on Liberalism pt. 2 23:22
122. Episode #132 ... Carl Schmitt on Liberalism pt. 1 23:59
123. Episode #131 ... Gramsci - Cultural Hegemony 25:36
124. Episode #130 ... Dewey and Lippman on Democracy 22:34
125. Episode #129 ... Gilles Deleuze pt. 5 - Difference 23:07
126. Episode #128 ... Gilles Deleuze pt. 4 - Flows 23:20
127. Episode #127 ... Gilles Deleuze pt. 3 - Anti-Oedipus 30:27
128. Episode #126 ... Gilles Deleuze pt. 2 - Immanence 23:35
129. Episode #125 ... Gilles Deleuze pt. 1 - What is Philosophy? 23:25
130. Episode #124 ... Simulacra and Simulation 31:23
131. Episode #123 ... Michel Foucault pt. 3 - Power 22:11
132. Episode #122 ... Michel Foucault pt. 2 - The Order of Things 22:48
133. Episode #121 ... Michel Foucault pt. 1 35:20
134. Episode #120 ... Logical Positivism 27:07
135. Episode #119 ... Derrida and Words 21:30
136. Episode #118 ... A Basic Look At Postmodernism 23:47
137. Episode #117 ... Structuralism and Mythology pt. 2 27:32
138. Episode #116 ... Structuralism and Mythology pt. 1 28:34
139. Episode #115 ... Structuralism and Context 33:02
140. Episode #114 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 7 - The Great Refusal 38:52
141. Episode #113 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 6 - Art As A Tool For Liberation 24:00
142. Episode #112 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 5 - Civilization 30:34
143. Episode #111 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 4 - Eros 26:01
144. Episode #110 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 3 - The Culture Industry 28:45
145. Episode #109 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 2 - The Enlightenment 26:36
146. Episode #108 ... The Frankfurt School pt. 1 - Introduction 30:39
147. Episode #107 ... Simone De Beauvoir pt .3 - Responsibility 26:47
148. Episode #106 ... Simone De Beauvoir pt. 2 - The Ethics of Ambiguity 25:09
149. Episode #105 ... Sartre and Camus pt. 6 - The Self 27:25
150. Episode #104 ... Sartre and Camus pt. 5 - Consciousness is Freedom 30:17
151. Episode #103 ... Sartre and Camus pt. 4 - The Quest For Certainty 32:10
152. Episode #102 ... Heidegger pt. 3 - Authenticity 32:17
153. Episode #101 ... Heidegger pt. 2 - Science and Technology 26:47
154. Episode #100 ... Heidegger pt. 1 - Phenomenology and Dasein 31:38
155. Episode #099 ... Schopenhauer pt. 2 - Ethics 23:14
156. Episode #098 ... Schopenhauer pt. 1 - Metaphysics and Love 23:37
157. Episode #097 ... Wittgenstein ep. 1 26:46
158. Episode #096 ... Is Ayn Rand A Philosopher? 25:11
159. Episode #095 ... Are you living in a simulation? 27:17
160. Episode #094 ... A Look at Suffering 30:08
161. Episode #093 ... Nietzsche pt. 4 - Love 27:46
162. Episode #092 ... Nietzsche pt. 3 - Thus Spoke Zarathustra 30:28
163. Episode #091 ... Nietzsche pt. 2 - The Will to Power 28:42
164. Episode #090 ... Nietzsche pt. 1 - God is dead and so is Captain Morgan 28:11
165. Episode #089 ... Simone De Beauvoir - The Second Sex 31:15
166. Episode #088 ... Sartre and Camus pt. 3 - The Great Debate 27:02
167. Episode #087 ... Sartre and Camus pt. 2 24:12
168. Episode #086 ... Sartre and Camus pt. 1 - Freedom 23:57
169. Episode #085 ... Peter Singer on Effective Altruism 24:44
170. Episode #084 ... William James on Truth 27:28
171. Episode #083 ... Henry David Thoreau 26:22
172. Episode #082 ... Austrians and Marx 26:27
173. Episode #081 ... Capitalism vs. Communism 25:04
174. Episode #80 ... Feuerbach on Religion 28:57
175. Episode #079 ... Kierkegaard on Anxiety 22:28
176. Episode #078 ... Marx and Kierkegaard on Religion pt. 2 24:05
177. Episode #077 ... Marx and Kierkegaard on Religion pt. 1 25:16
178. Episode #076 ... Hegel's God 25:11
179. Episode #075 ... How To Win An Argument Pt. 2 24:49
180. Episode #074 ... Hegel Returns 27:52
181. Episode #073 ... How To Win An Argument Pt. 1 29:45
182. Episode #072 ... Insecurity 33:58
183. Episode #071 ... Is Killing Animals For Food Morally Justifiable? 29:40
184. Episode #070 ... Off Moodiness 23:22
185. Episode #069 ... An Appeal To Reason 30:58
186. Episode #068 ... On Moodiness 22:46
187. Episode #067 ... What Hegel Was Saying! 21:47
188. Episode #066 ... Hegel pt. 1 - Introduction 18:49
189. Episode #065 ... Mary Wollstonecraft 22:25
190. Episode #064 ... Interpreting Interpretations 21:30
191. Episode #063 ... Kant pt. 8 - Limits of Knowledge 29:23
192. Episode #062 ... Kant pt. 7 - Suicide 33:55
193. Episode #061 ... Kant pt. 6 - What is Enlightenment? 27:37
194. Episode #060 ... Kant pt. 5 - The Sublime 31:24
195. Episode #059 ... Kant pt. 4 - Categorical Trolley Cars 28:23
196. Episode #058 ... Kant pt. 3 - Deontology vs Consequentialism 28:02
197. Episode #057 ... Kant pt. 2 - The Actual Introduction 24:09
198. Episode #056 ... Kant pt. 1 - An Introduction to the Introduction 26:57
199. Episode #055 ... Interview on Hume with Massimo Pigliucci 31:06
200. Episode #054 ... Hume pt. 4 - Art 30:58
201. Episode #053 ... David Hume pt. 3 - Custom 25:01
202. Episode #052 ... David Hume pt. 2 - Design 30:32
203. Episode #051 ... David Hume pt. 1 30:34
204. Episode #050 ... Are You Left Or Right? 27:04
205. Episode #049 ... Adam Smith pt. 2 - The Tip of the Iceberg of Wealth 30:07
206. Episode #048 ... Adam Smith pt. 1 - Specialization 24:16
207. Episode #047 ... Rousseau pt. 3 - The General Will 25:55
208. Episode #046 ... Rousseau pt. 2 - Democracy, Aristocracy or Monarchy? 30:28
209. Episode #045 ... Rousseau Government pt. 1 27:48
210. Episode #044 ... Slavery 37:26
211. Episode #043 ... Tolerance 28:44
212. Episode #042 ... Optimism 29:26
213. Episode #041 ... Belief 37:24
214. Episode #040 ... Superstition 49:43
215. Episode #039 ... The Limits of Empiricism 27:58
216. Episode #038 ... Leibniz pt. 2 - The Best of All Possible Worlds 27:20
217. Episode #037 ... Leibniz pt. 1 - A Million Points of Light 33:03
218. Episode #036 ... John Locke pt. 2 - The Blank Slate 29:39
219. Episode #035 ... John Locke pt. 1 31:23
220. Episode #034 ... Spinoza pt. 2 - Force of Nature 28:23
221. Episode #033 ... Spinoza pt. 1 - From Baruch to Benedicto 27:56
222. Episode #032 ... Blaise Pascal pt. 2 - +EV your way to success!! 29:38
223. Episode #031 ... Pascal's Wager 28:21
224. Episode #030 ... Descartes pt. 3 - God Exists 25:20
225. Episode #029 ... Descartes pt. 2 - See episode description 27:53
226. Episode #028 ... Rene Descartes pt. 1 - Context 27:53
227. Episode #027 ... Thomas Hobbes pt. 2 29:19
228. Episode #026 ... Thomas Hobbes pt. 1 - The Social Contract 30:13
229. Episode #025 ... A Scientific Method For Your Life! 29:21
230. Episode #024 ... Montaigne 27:49
231. Episode #023 ... Machiavelli 26:08
232. Episode #022 ... Blast off to the Renaissance! 27:28
233. Episode #021 ... One God - St. Thomas Aquinas 26:57
234. Episode #020 ... Two Medieval Approaches To God 35:19
235. Episode #019 ... Three Islamic Truths 32:11
236. Episode #018 ... Avicenna 26:42
237. Episode #017 ... Boethius 24:37
238. Episode #016 ... Saint Augustine 30:19
239. Episode #015 ... A Period of Transition - Plotinus 38:10
240. Episode #014 ... The Hellenistic Age Pt. 5 - A Race To The Dark Ages 44:37
241. Episode #013 ... The Hellenistic Age Pt. 4 - Skepticism 47:15
242. Episode #012 ... The Hellenistic Age Pt. 3 - Hallmarks of Stoic Ethics 48:52
243. Episode #011 ... The Hellenistic Age Pt. 2 - The Early Stoa and the Cynics 42:03
244. Episode #010 ... The Hellenistic Age Pt. 1 - Epicurus 48:00
245. Episode #009 ... The Buddha 44:31
246. Episode #008 ... Confucianism 40:54
247. Episode #007 ... Daoism 40:14
248. Episode #006 ... Aristotle Pt. 2 38:22
249. Episode #005 ... Aristotle Pt. 1 36:27
250. Episode #004 ... Plato 45:03