Eardstepa's Courses

The Daodejing Part 3 06.08.2023 46:46 ↓

The episode covers the first half of book 2.

The Daodejing Part 2 23.07.2023 39:20 ↓

This episode finishes book one of the Daodejing.

Daodejing Part 1 16.07.2023 45:23 ↓

The episode starts the first part of the Daodejing.

The Odes part 2 02.04.2023 26:04 ↓

This episode takes about two poems that deal with the foundation of the Zhou kingdom and of the people's move from nomads to settlers.

The Odes (Shijing) Part one 11.02.2023 22:41 ↓

This episode looks at two poems dealing with the common people. One deals with their everyday concerns, and the other, their view of war.

Poetry and translation 12.12.2022 33:51 ↓

This episode discusses some of the elements of poetry and the difficulty of translation.

Confucius books 12, 13, and 16 01.10.2022 50:45 ↓

This episode covers these books and recaps some of his main ideas. It also looks a little to the contemporary world.

Confucius books 5-8 01.09.2022 55:57 ↓

This episode dives more into the Analects.

Confucius and the Analects books 1-4 23.07.2022 56:13 ↓

This episode starts the season and the series of episodes about Confucius.

Barthes and Carse 05.05.2022 31:18 ↓

This episode rounds out season two and introduces season three.

Politics and Fiction 28.04.2022 20:31 ↓

This episode discusses how politicians use the various media through the 20th century to spread their ideologies.

Capitalism and Communism in theory and practice 20.03.2022 24:47 ↓

This episode discusses how the two systems did what their founders warned against.

Social Media and Fiction 14.02.2022 18:16 ↓

This episode looks at social media and the pressures to fictionalize our lives for the world.

Camus and Absurdism 24.01.2022 23:22 ↓

This episode looks at Camus' philosophy and his rejection of nihilism.

Ray Bradbury and The Veldt 10.01.2022 17:05 ↓

This episode looks at science fiction and it's predictions and sometimes warnings about where the world is heading.

Peter Singer and ethics 07.01.2022 23:02 ↓

This episode looks at Singer as someone who brings philosophy to the non philosopher.

Rodriguez and Modern poetry 28.12.2021 25:39 ↓

This episode looks at two of his poems and discusses how poetry is able to engage a wide rage of topics relevant to modern life.

Hannah Arendt 20.12.2021 20:32 ↓

This episode looks at her essay The Perplexities of the Rights of Man and how her ideas are grounded in realities then and now.

American Psycho by Ellis 15.12.2021 18:07 ↓

This episode looks at the post modern novel American Psycho, and examines how it exposes the dark side of the 1980s glitter.

John Dewey 06.12.2021 13:55 ↓

This episode briefly talks about education and democracy.

The Matrix, philosophy and post modernism 29.11.2021 16:53 ↓

This episode goes into how the film both covers ideas in philosophy and in post modernism.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 25.11.2021 27:04 ↓

This episode introduces his early and late works.

Brave New World 18.11.2021 20:38 ↓

Thus episode looks at the predictions of the novel and compares them to the world today.

Heidegger and being 16.11.2021 16:44 ↓

This episode gives a brief introduction to Heidegger and also raises the question of his murky past.

Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse Five 11.11.2021 24:50 ↓

This episode discusses the book not only as an anti war novel but also as a post modern and psychological work.