Philosophers Talk Podcast

Gottfried Leibniz: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! David Hume: Created by AITalkerApp.com. Create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Gottfried Leibniz: Round three, ladies and gentlemen, the champion still standing, still calibrated, still entirely convinced this Scotsman has yet to land a single blow that actually counts....

Gottfried Leibniz: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! David Hume: Created by AITalkerApp.com. Create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Gottfried Leibniz: Welcome back to the ring, ladies and gentlemen, when we left off, the champion was patiently explaining calibration to a man who still insists tomorrow is a mystery. David...

Gottfried Leibniz: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! David Hume: Created by AITalkerApp.com. Create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Gottfried Leibniz: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the main event, tonight in this corner, weighing in with three centuries of formal logic behind him, the undisputed champion of calculated...

Benjamin Franklin: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss. Jean Jacques Rousseau: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description. Benjamin Franklin: Before we render any verdict tonight, Jean Jacques, I want to do something neither of us has done properly yet. I want to state your position as fairly as I can...

Benjamin Franklin: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss. Jean Jacques Rousseau: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description. Benjamin Franklin: When we left off, Jean Jacques, you had conceded that reason might have a point, and then spent the rest of the evening trying to take the concession back. Tonig...

Benjamin Franklin: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss. Jean Jacques Rousseau: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description. Benjamin Franklin: Jean Jacques, I want to start with something simple. In seventeen seventy six, a group of men sat in a room in Philadelphia and wrote a document that began with...

Theodore Roosevelt: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Woodrow Wilson: Created by AITalkerApp.com, where you can create your own animated conversations. Link in the description. Theodore Roosevelt: I want to return to the central question, which is not whether our prescriptions are perfect, but which one is less likely to leave the next generation...

Theodore Roosevelt: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Woodrow Wilson: Created by AITalkerApp.com, where you can create your own animated conversations. Link in the description. Theodore Roosevelt: Now I am going to tell you something about Woodrow Wilson that Woodrow Wilson does not like to hear. The self-determination principle, as he applied it...

Theodore Roosevelt: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Woodrow Wilson: Created by AITalkerApp.com, where you can create your own animated conversations. Link in the description. Theodore Roosevelt: Now, I am going to tell you something about myself right at the start, so we understand each other. I have hunted lions in Africa, charged up San Juan H...

Alexis de Tocqueville: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Otto von Bismarck: And we are back. Monsieur de Tocqueville spent the interval, I assume, composing additional elegant phrases with which to avoid the central question. Alexis de Tocqueville: I spent the interval reviewing your record, Herr Bismarck, which is always instructive. A man who sp...

Napoleon Bonaparte: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Napoleon Bonaparte: Here we are again, Wellington. The last time we sat across from each other in this format, you told me the Iran war was a reckless gamble that w...

Alexis de Tocqueville: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Otto von Bismarck: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Alexis de Tocqueville: Herr Bismarck, let us establish at the outset what we are actually discussing. Samuel Huntington published a thesis in 1993 arguing that the fundamental sour...

Samuel Gompers: Now. I want to talk about what is happening in the present day, because this is not an abstract disagreement about labor tactics from a hundred years ago. Freddie deBoer -- and anyone who has spent time with his collected writings knows this argument well -- makes the case that Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and the movement against sexual violence all failed because they...

Samuel Gompers: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com -- where thinkers discuss! Rosa Luxemburg: Created by AITalkerApp.com -- create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Samuel Gompers: Well now, I have been looking forward to this particular conversation the way a man looks forward to finally explaining to his neighbor why his fence keeps falling down....

Klemens von Metternich: Let me describe what happens when a great power includes a smaller nation as an equal partner at the negotiating table, since my colleague seems to believe this would be a triumph of justice rather than a recipe for paralysis. The smaller nation arrives with demands it cannot enforce. It insists on terms the larger power will never accept. The negotiations stall because the...

Klemens von Metternich: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! I must say, it is reassuring to know that even in this century, someone still believes that arguments between educated men can accomplish more than arguments between armies. Giuseppe Mazzini: Created by AITalkerApp.com, where you can create your own animated conversations. Link in the descr...

Niccolo Machiavelli: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Edmund Burke: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Niccolo Machiavelli: I am Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine diplomat and political theorist, the man who wrote The Prince and who has been blamed for everything unpleasant in politics ever...

Adam Smith: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com -- where thinkers discuss! Alexander Hamilton: Created by AITalkerApp.com -- create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Adam Smith: I am Adam Smith, Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, author of The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments, and the man who explained, wi...

Niccolo Machiavelli: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Edmund Burke: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Niccolo Machiavelli: I am Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine diplomat, author of The Prince, and a man who has been blamed for everything unpleasant in politics since 1513, which I find flat...

Plato: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! John Stuart Mill: Created by AITalkerApp.com, where you can create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Plato: I am Plato of Athens, student of Socrates, founder of the Academy, and author of the Republic, which as far as I can tell remains the only serious book ever written about how t...

Niccolo Machiavelli: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Edmund Burke: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Niccolo Machiavelli: I am Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine diplomat, political theorist, and author of The Prince, which I wrote in 1513 to explain how power actually works to people who p...

Booker T. Washington: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Woodrow Wilson: Created by AITalkerApp.com, where you can create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Booker T. Washington: I am Booker T. Washington, founder of the Tuskegee Institute, author of Up From Slavery, and a man who built a school with his own hands because the...

Niccolo Machiavelli: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Edmund Burke: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Niccolo Machiavelli: I am Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine diplomat, political theorist, author of The Prince, and the only man in the history of Western philosophy whose name has become a...

Thomas Jefferson: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Alexander Hamilton: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Thomas Jefferson: My name is Thomas Jefferson. I wrote the Declaration of Independence, served as the third President, and spent my career arguing that the purpose of government is to...

Thomas Jefferson: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Alexander Hamilton: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Thomas Jefferson: My name is Thomas Jefferson. I wrote the Declaration of Independence, served as the third President, and built my political career on a single conviction: that the pe...