The Wisdom Of

Do you share Plato's orientation or Aristotle's? Find out! 

What is nostalgia exactly? And is it beneficial or can it be disadvantageous? Let's find out! 

The history of eros and agape is super interesting, and each, in their own way, express incredibly powerful and important aspects of love! Find out more! 

Lou Salome was a personal friend of Nietzsche for a short time. Later she wrote a book about him. Let's find out what she said! 

In this episode, I try to explain what I love about Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe!  (I think I called him Willam Defoe, but, who cares, there are worse mistakes to make in life.) 

In this episode, I talk a bit about Descartes' famous line and what sort of influence it's had on us! 

What is courage exactly? Whatever it is, it's more than a Tragically Hip song! 

Why rebel against mass society? Let me count the ways! 

A little less having and a little more being ! So says the famous psychologist Erich Fromm! 

What's the correlation between wealth and happiness? Not a good one! Find out why! 

Sure, you might be free from things, but now what are you free to do?! Coming up, negative and positive freedom! 

In our age of noise and distraction, we need to remember the benefits of silence! 

Tolstoy's autobiographical memoir always bugged me. Here's why! 

Philosophy as a Way of Life was written by Pierre Hadot, a French historian of philosophy. He takes us back to a time when philosophy meant real personal transformation! 

Plato’s allegory of the cave, a section in his great philosophical masterpiece Republic, is one of the most iconic and influential passages ever written. It's still relevant today! 

Maybe the best way to cope with misfortune is to imagine it in advance . Maybe the best way to happiness is cultivate the gratitude that comes with the recognition that we may lose our loved ones.  

Don't care about the likes of Homer and Sophocles and Thucydides? You should! 

Gabriel Marcel was a French existentialist Christian philosopher.  What he had to say is very relevant today, more so than in his own time!  

Both Jean-Paul Sartre and Friedrich Nietzsche privilege the present over the past. Let's find out why! 

Alain Badiou is a French philosopher. In this episode, we discuss his In Praise of Love . The work is a passionate defence of love in a time when romance is being threatened from all directions! 

In this episode, I talk a bit about the notions of revenge and retribution and punishment. The Book of Revelation , Nietzsche, Martha Nussbaum and Hannah Arendt all make appearances! 

Don't all living things die? Well, not according to Rousseau and Heidegger! 

ChatGPT spit out some prose on our command. Is it art? What might Heidegger say? What should our relationship be to objects and artifacts? What does Martin Buber think?  Are our relationships with our bots a good idea? Let's explore! 

Is it actually good to be nice? Is niceness a virtue? That’s to say, is it a character trait that’s admirable? At the end of the day, should we value niceness as much as we do? Let's explore! 

There's a social aspect to our death that philosophers often tend to overlook when discussing the issue of death, or so it might be argued. In this episode, we hear from Epicurus, Heidegger and Levinas!