Philosophers Talk Podcast

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...

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 honest and consequently the most widely despised work of political philosophy ever written. I take considerable pride in that dist...

Alexis de Tocqueville: Welcome back. 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! Alexis de Tocqueville: When we concluded Part One, Mr. Mill had just explained that my contribution to this debate was identifying the occasion for a lecture rather th...

Alexis de Tocqueville: 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! Alexis de Tocqueville: My name is Alexis de Tocqueville. I was a French political philosopher, historian, and statesman who spent nine months traveling the United States in eighteen...

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: I am Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, conqueror of Egypt, Italy, Austria, Prussia, Spain, and several other territories that I will not enumerate because we have limited ti...

Carl von Clausewitz: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Antoine-Henri Jomini: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Carl von Clausewitz: In Part 1 we established that John Boyd made genuine contributions to aircraft design, small-unit training, and the diagnosis of institutional dysfunction in...

Carl von Clausewitz: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Antoine-Henri Jomini: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Carl von Clausewitz: I am Carl von Clausewitz. Prussian general, military theorist, and author of On War, the definitive examination of the nature of conflict as an extension of p...

Herbert Spencer: 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! Herbert Spencer: When we concluded Part One, Mr. Marx had made what he considers his decisive argument: that artificial intelligence differs from all previous labor-displacing technologies becau...

Herbert Spencer: 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! Herbert Spencer: I am Herbert Spencer, author of Principles of Biology, Principles of Psychology, Principles of Sociology, Principles of Ethics, and approximately nine hundred additional pages o...

Duke of Wellington: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Napoleon: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Duke of Wellington: In part one, we established that the Americans opened the Iran war with nine hundred strikes of considerable technical precision, and then discovered that the Strait of Hor...

Duke of Wellington: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Napoleon: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Duke of Wellington: I am the Duke of Wellington. I commanded British forces through the Peninsular Campaign in Spain and Portugal, and at Waterloo, where I defeated the gentleman seated across...

Henry George: Welcome back to PhilosophersTalk.com , where thinkers discuss! I am Henry George and we are continuing our debate with Karl Marx on whether the single tax on land values is sufficient to end poverty. In part one we laid out our core positions and steelmanned each other's arguments. I believe we established that the land value tax rests on genuinely solid economic foundations, which e...

Henry George: 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! Henry George: Good day. I am Henry George, author of Progress and Poverty. I came up through hard experience rather than formal credentials. I worked as a sailor, a typesetter, a journalist, and a...

Edmund Burke: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Thomas Paine: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Edmund Burke: I am Edmund Burke, and we have arrived at Part Three, in which Mr. Paine and I are expected to resolve our differences or at least to shout them at sufficient volume that the audie...

Edmund Burke: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Thomas Paine: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Edmund Burke: I am Edmund Burke, and in our last conversation Mr. Paine presented his argument that Britain’s decline is the inevitable consequence of inherited privilege, monopolized land, and...

Edmund Burke: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Thomas Paine: 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 latterly for Malton, author of Reflections on the Revolution in France, Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas o...

Plato: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! William James: Created by AITalkerApp.com, 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, the Symposium, the Phaedo, the Meno, the Theaetetus, and dozens of other dialogues that have shape...