Philosophers Talk Podcast

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 drafted the Declaration of Independence, served as the third President, and spent my career arguing that government exists to serve the...

Napoleon: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Duke of Wellington: Created by AITalkerApp.com, where you can create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Napoleon: Well, Arthur, here we are again. Same war, same argument, same two men who actually knew how to fight one. Last time we spoke about this conflict, I believe I made seve...

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 was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, the third President of the United States, and a lifelong advocate for the...

Otto von Bismarck: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Niccolo Machiavelli: Created by AITalkerApp.com, where you can create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Otto von Bismarck: I am Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of a unified German Empire, architect of the alliance system that kept the continent from destroying itself for a...

Andrew Carnegie: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Karl Marx: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Andrew Carnegie: We ended Part One with my opponent announcing that the Homestead Strike of 1892 would be the subject of Part Two, which I took as a preview rather than a threat. But before we a...

Andrew Carnegie: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Karl Marx: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Andrew Carnegie: I am Andrew Carnegie, born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1835, arrived in America with nothing more than my family and an absolute certainty that this country rewarded effort, an...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Welcome back to PhilosophersTalk.com, where I must continue explaining the basic principles of legitimate government to a French aristocrat who thinks democracy is something you study from the window of a private carriage. Alexis de Tocqueville: And welcome back to the conversation created by AITalkerApp.com, where you can make your own animated conversations, link in the de...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Alexis de Tocqueville: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Jean-Jacques Rousseau: I am Jean-Jacques Rousseau, author of The Social Contract, the Discourse on Inequality, and the foundational texts of modern democratic theory. I did not...

Thomas Hobbes: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! John Locke: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Thomas Hobbes: I am Thomas Hobbes, author of Leviathan, the most important work on political authority since man first realized that living together was preferable to dying separately, a realizat...

Adam Smith: Welcome back. We are continuing our debate on artificial intelligence regulation, specifically on the question of whether governments should be trusted to govern the most powerful technology in human history. My position has not changed. Mr. Hobbes has not yet said anything that I found genuinely persuasive, which I consider an encouraging consistency. Thomas Hobbes: My position is sim...

Adam Smith: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Thomas Hobbes: 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 thinker who demonstrated, at c...

Adam Smith: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Adam Smith: I am Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments, professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow, and I am here today to discus...

Napoleon: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Duke of Wellington: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description. Napoleon: Now then. I have been watching the opening moves of this Iran campaign with a particular mixture of admiration and the very specific frustration of a man who has written extensively...

Walter Bagehot: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! William Jennings Bryan: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Walter Bagehot: Let us examine volatility with some precision, since Mr. Bryan appears to treat it as a minor inconvenience rather than a fundamental structural disqualification from...

Walter Bagehot: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! William Jennings Bryan: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Walter Bagehot: I am Walter Bagehot, editor of The Economist for seventeen years, author of Lombard Street, which remains the definitive account of how banking systems actually funct...

Edmund Burke: Welcome back to PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! John Stuart Mill: And AITalkerApp.com, where you can create your own animated conversations. Link in the description. Edmund Burke: When we concluded Part 1, Mr. Mill and I had achieved the philosophically rare and personally uncomfortable state of agreeing on the problem while remaining entirely opposed on the solution. I...

Edmund Burke: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! John Stuart Mill: Created by AITalkerApp.com. Create your own animated conversations. Link in the description. Edmund Burke: I am Edmund Burke, Member of Parliament for Bristol and later for Malton, author of Reflections on the Revolution in France, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Idea...

Napoleon: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Carl von Clausewitz: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Napoleon: I am Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, Consul of the Republic, King of Italy, conqueror of Egypt, reorganizer of the legal and military systems of the modern world, and the...

Niccolo Machiavelli: Welcome back to PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! I am Niccolo Machiavelli, and when we ended Part One I was explaining to Mr. Wilson that an alliance which makes its members structurally dependent on a patron whose interests are not identical to their own is not a security arrangement. It is a comfortable trap with a very attractive entrance. Woodrow Wilson: And I...

Niccolo Machiavelli: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Woodrow Wilson: 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 is the only political manual in history that people simultaneousl...

Otto von Bismarck: Welcome back to PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! I am Otto von Bismarck, and when we concluded Part One I was explaining to Mr. Burke why the Iran conflict is not the cause of NATO's dysfunction but the moment at which NATO's pre-existing dysfunction became impossible to ignore. Edmund Burke: And I am Edmund Burke, and I was explaining to Mr. Bismarck why the man wh...

Otto von Bismarck: 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! Otto von Bismarck: I am Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of the German Empire, architect of the modern European alliance system, and the man who unified Germany through blood and iron while si...

Thomas Paine: Welcome back to PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! I am Thomas Paine, and we are continuing a debate in which Mr. Burke has been explaining, at considerable length and with impressive vocabulary, why children born on American soil should not automatically be American. I have been explaining why that position is wrong. We will now continue. Edmund Burke: And I am Edmund Bur...

Thomas Paine: 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! Thomas Paine: I am Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense, The Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason. I was born in England, crossed an ocean, and became an American. I was subsequently made a citi...

Thomas Hobbes: Welcome back to PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss. If you have not watched Part 1, Mr. Locke suggested at the end of it that he intends to show me where my calculation leads when the man doing the arithmetic changes. I have been looking forward to that with what I can only describe as professional anticipation. John Locke: And welcome back from AITalkerApp.com, where you...