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In these short episodes delve into different philosophical texts and gain a simple understanding of complex topics.
Aristotle's substance meets a cookie cutter, and your kitchen briefly becomes a philosophy department.
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A clear, modern primer on Descartes and the search for certainty.
Descartes' Discourse on Method lands as surprisingly current because it takes on a problem that still feels familiar: how to think clearly when the world is noisy, contradictory, and crowded with confident claims.
A conversational Locke primer that keeps the big questions clear and current.
The episode treats John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding as a clear, conversational look at how people know what they know, where identity comes from, and how language and morality shape a life.
A clear take on Hume that keeps abstract ideas tied to everyday judgment.
This episode treats Hume's Treatise of Human Nature as a question of where belief, knowledge, and morality come from, and it keeps that line of thought moving without losing the thread.
A clear, thought-provoking pass through Plato's Republic and its questions about justice, education, and control.
Plato's Republic presents a steady examination of justice, education, and the shape of an ideal state. The dialogue, led largely by Socrates, lets the ideas shift from several angles, which keeps it feeling less sealed in the past than many ancient works.
A clear walk through Plato, Aristotle, and the question of what is real.
Aristotle pushes back against Plato's account of mathematical objects and, with it, the larger question of what counts as real. Numbers, lines, and the rest are treated as something more than abstract labels, but not as immovable eternal things.
A brisk tour of Aristotle's oneness, grounded in rivers, light, gray, and the good life.
The episode turns Aristotle's question of what makes something one into a clear, grounded walk through his four categories. A river and a beam of light stand in for continuous things, while gray, made from black and white, helps explain how intermediates can come from…
A brisk, conversational guide to Aristotle that treats Metaphysics as a toolkit for thinking.
The episode treats Aristotle's Metaphysics Book 5 like a working map, not a museum piece. Two voices move through beginnings, quantity, disposition, and the larger task of saying what reality is, and the strongest part is how the definitions are used as tools.
A clear, lively introduction to Aristotle's essence, substance, and the force of definitions.
Aristotle's Metaphysics Book 7 is framed as a direct, conversational inquiry into a stubborn question: what makes a thing what it is? The writing stays close to ordinary life, moving from everyday labels into substance and essence, and then back again through trees, dogs, and…
Laurie Taylor interviews the academics behind new research on prisons, debt, crowds, and propaganda.
A call-in helpline where listener questions turn into reported science and history investigations.
Introduction to Philosophy covers Aristotle, Metaphysics Book 5, with a long explanation of definitions, causes, being, and categories.
The hosts dig into Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Book 12, with substance at the center.
Berkeley's Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge is explored as a challenge to how reality gets understood.
Socrates opens a conversation about the ideal state.
Plato’s Symposium unfolds as a dinner party in Athens, 416 BC, where Agathon celebrates a tragedy prize and guests deliver speeches praising Eros, the god of love.
This episode explores Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's 'Discourse on Metaphysics,' focusing on his argument that God created the best possible universe.
This episode explores Leibniz's Monadology, explaining his concept of monads as fundamental building blocks that reflect the entire universe.
The hosts take on Descartes' Discourse on Method and begin with a problem that still feels current.
This episode explores Rene Descartes' Meditations, framing it as a personal journey into doubt and knowledge.
This episode explores John Locke's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding,' discussing his rejection of innate ideas, empiricism, personal identity, morality, and the limits of language and human knowledge.
This episode explores David Hume's 'Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding', highlighting how his 18th-century ideas on human reason as instinctual rather than divine remain relevant today, with connections to modern science and critical thinking.
Educational deep-dive into David Hume's 18th-century philosophy, specifically his epistemology and ethics.
This episode explores Plato's dialogue Meno, focusing on whether virtue can be taught, with Socrates guiding Menino through defining virtue and engaging other characters like Megino and Menidas.
Two hosts engage in a deep dive analysis of Plato's Republic, exploring the dialogue's treatment of justice through conversations between Socrates and various characters including Cephalus, Polemarchus, and Thrasymachus.
This episode explores Plato's Crito, focusing on Socrates' moral dilemma in prison as his friend Crito offers an escape plan, raising questions about justice, survival, and personal motives.
This episode explores Plato's Apology, focusing on Socrates' trial in ancient Athens where he was accused of corrupting the youth and impiety.
This episode explores Plato's Phaedo, focusing on Socrates' final hours and his arguments for the immortality of the soul, including the cycle of life and death and the theory of recollection.
This episode explores Plato's Allegory of the Cave, detailing how prisoners mistake shadows for reality and one prisoner's journey to enlightenment symbolizes the pursuit of true knowledge.
This episode provides a deep dive into Aristotle's philosophy of numbers as presented in Book 14 of his Metaphysics, challenging Pythagorean views and arguing that numbers are practical tools for understanding reality rather than abstract cosmic principles.
Aristotle turns to the status of mathematical objects and the harder question of what counts as real.
The hosts conduct a deep dive into Aristotle's Metaphysics, Book 10, exploring his complex ideas on the nature of 'oneness,' its connection to measurement and scientific rigor, and how these metaphysical concepts extend into ethics, human purpose (eudaimonia), and political philosophy.
This episode provides an accessible deep dive into Aristotle's Metaphysics Book 11, exploring his foundational concepts including first principles, his critique of Plato's theory of forms, the nature of 'being qua being', and his distinction between potential and actual infinity.
This episode is a conversational deep dive into Book 5 of Aristotle's Metaphysics, breaking down foundational philosophical concepts like the four causes, substance versus accidents, and potency and actuality.
This episode provides a deep dive into Aristotle's concept of 'substance' from Book 7 of his Metaphysics.
A conversational deep dive into Aristotle's Metaphysics Book 9, focusing on his concepts of actuality and potentiality.
A deep dive into Aristotle's Metaphysics Book 7, exploring his concept of substance as the essence of what makes things what they are.
This episode provides a deep dive into Book 6 of Aristotle's 'Metaphysics,' exploring his foundational concepts of being, truth, and causation.
This episode provides a deep dive into Aristotle's Metaphysics Book 4, exploring his foundational ideas about existence, knowledge, and logic.
A deep dive analysis of Aristotle's Metaphysics Book 3, exploring his fundamental questions about reality, knowledge, and existence.
The hosts take a conversational deep dive into Book 2 of Aristotle's 'Metaphysics,' exploring his ideas on truth as a collaborative effort, the four causes of understanding, the limits of human perception, and the concept of a 'first cause' for the universe.