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Episode #168 ... Introduction to an Ethics of Care

Today we continue talking about the work of Ortega. This time about his book Revolt of the Masses.  Twitter - @iamstephenwest for updates   Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :)

Episode #167 ... Jose Ortega - Revolt of the Masses

Today we begin talking about the work of Jose Ortega Y Gasset.

Episode #166 ... Jose Ortega - Circumstance

Today we continue our discussion of Emerson.

Episode #165 ... Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature and Other Things

Today we talk about Emerson and his essay about self reliance.

Episode #164 ... Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self Reliance

Today we continue talking about the work of Ernest Becker.

Episode #163 ... The Creation of Meaning - Escape From Evil

Today we begin talking about the work of Ernest Becker.

Episode #162 ... The Creation of Meaning - The Denial of Death

Today we talk about a famous book from the work of Karl Popper.

Episode #161 ... Karl Popper - The Open Society and Its Enemies

Today we discuss the work of Soren Kierkegaard. His famous work The Lily of the Field and The Bird of The Air.

Episode #160 ... The Creation of Meaning - Kierkegaard - Silence, Obedience and Joy

Today we continue our discussion on the creation of meaning.

Episode #159 ... The Creation of Meaning - Nietzsche - Amor Fati

Episode #017 ... Boethius

Jogger's Friend Watches In Horror As She Vomits Hot Pockets And

you and your friend decide one day that you're going to get in shape, you guys are going to go start jogging and you're jogging along with your friend and you start to get lightheaded. You start to feel sick visions of hot pockets and cupcakes swirling around in your head. Your friend's knowledge that you are jogging right now in this moment doesn't change your ability to stop jogging. Bend over and throw up all over the pavement just like that.

"You Won't Believe What This Kid Did To Avoid Punishment!"

the two is what Kohlberg called preconventional levels of morality. Basically the kids act in a way where their chief motivation in moral action is to avoid punishment. Scoring A3 to four would place kids in a conventional level of morality. In other words, following rules and gaining the approval of others starts to become the main consideration in choosing what the right thing to do was finally scoring A5 to six would make someone post conventional in their moral reasoning where it's

Episode #156 ... Emil Cioran part 2 - Failure and Suicide

 we're talking about the idea that reality is what we make it, and that we can make it what we want.

are deep enough level, yet they're always still at some rest. Stop along the way of their long journey of understanding reality and coming to terms with it. Honestly, he said, quote only optimists commit suicide optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists, the others, having no reason to live. Why would they have any to die? End Quote, now? Of course, here he is referencing the optimism we talked about last episode. When

Episode #155 ... Emil Cioran - Absurdity and Nothingness

 sense of humor

this is a lifestyle that without question will require you to accept these feelings of melancholy, dread failure, loneliness, and all the rest. But by embracing the true absurdity of the world and the reality of the emotional variance of the human condition, your reward will be to have access to the limitless possibilities that lay before you. And we'll talk about it more on next episode, but Emil Chiron would go on to say that he's never had a friend who didn't get real and steer into the absurdity of things without a

You could be left existing in a state of almost constant disorientation constant insecurities about what to do next. If you can start to feel like part of the very thing that makes you human, is it, you're always confronted with a vast Horizon, a possibility, a vast Horizon, possible ways you can engage with the

I mean, even if every thought that I've ever had could have been predicted by some sort of cultural supercomputer that the act of thinking entirely for myself is ultimately nothing but an illusion, isn't there, an enormous amount of value and being more self-aware of the origins of my thinking of being more conscious of how others may be influencing, my thinking is a value in working. The muscles of the brain, not relying on rote memorization, or just trying to please the people around me.

If you were the protagonist of the series and you've more or less spent your life sitting through human culture, looking for the meaning of life, looking for some greater purpose of the universe, that's going to get you springing out of bed into your house slippers. Every morning, only to get to what seems like the end of the road disappointed that there doesn't seem to be one. Kevin would probably say congratulations. Here's your certificate for graduating. The first grade of human existence because arriving at that conclusion is far from the end of the road. This is inspiring in fact, in many ways to kamu, you've only just found your way to the race. We've only just made it to the starting line.

Episode #157 ... The Creation of Meaning - Beauvoir

In a constant push and pull between polarity polarity like subject and object, but also lots of other stuff self and other mind and matter, individual, and group identity being free. While also being in Chains. There's thousands of them and Simone de Beauvoir points out that. Yes, human beings May tend to create these binary opposition's in an attempt to make sense of things, but one thing's for sure.

Episode #004 ... Plato

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Episode #028 ... Rene Descartes pt. 1 - Context

What's complacency? I mean, to see it all the time. This particular race of people are ruining. The world religion is ruining the world, Democrats are ruining the world and this is just one form of it. I mean, you ask most people what their most firmly held conviction is about anyting. You know, what is the thing that you believe in the most in the entire world? And it doesn't take many questions for them to see that it might not be as simple as what they were initially leading on about this way of thinking correctly, applies to this point in history, Francis Bacon as a quote where he said, nothing is so firmly. Believed as that which we least know. The world. 

Gulag thing human history would be completely different if I only had a little chamomile tea to start the day. No Karl. Popper is going to say that. What makes the sales pitch of a totalitarian or fascist regimes so easy to get on board with it because it's often rooted in some of the old 

Episode #007 ... Daoism

the concept of Yin Yang has been applied to basically every Avenue of Chinese culture even medicine related to the balance of Yin and Yang within their body and mind we're going to talk a lot more about yin and yang and future episodes I mean it's a concept that was well-established in Chinese culture before Confucianism

Episode #003 ... Socrates and the Sophists

against his basic survival instincts what to go against hundreds of thousands of years of evolution and I can't think of anything more admirable than what he did in modern times most of the characteristics of people that we admire is human

Episode #001 ... Presocratic Philosophy - Ionian

I know it's shocking right but what is shocking to me is that some people think these guys are stupid or closer to the apes or less evolve than we are because how could they actually believe any of this stuff the only reason we don't believe this stuff today is because we have the luxury of going to the library and reading about them suggesting it thousands of years ago and I guarantee you thousands of years from now the people that lived then we'll be looking back at the crazy stuff we think now and they'll be making fun of us are closer to fault it's the nature of science the right experiment and progressed until you reach an irrefutable truth and for anyone that hasn't checked recently when it comes to everything

Episode #002 ... Presocratic Philosophy - Italian

Empedocles said that the process of these Eternal elements intermingling and moving around, that's what man calls birth, or death birth, and death exist. They're just human constructs words, and it has a lot of similarities with the ideas. 

All due respect, you are one of the dumbest human beings I've ever laid eyes on your male. Pattern baldness is a metaphor for the progressive lack of coverage. You have over major aspect of this organization. God is dead and your cringe has killed. Congratulations. 

Episode #006 ... Aristotle Pt. 2

Syllogism was incredibly versatile. It wasn't just able to classify animals more efficiently. It had to use in every single area where arriving at some universal Truth was the ultimate goal.

Syllogism acted as the go-to method of arriving at Truth for scientists for centuries.

The scientific method is was a mixture between inductive and deductive reasoning.

Aristotle recognized and inductive reasoning could only be used to a certain extent, when trying to arrive at universal Truths, recognize that it played an important role. Inductive reasoning is really good at discovering patterns, finding Universal generalization that we can then prove or disprove. What are deductive reasoning. I mean, with his syllogisms and it still doesn't wear the deductive reasoning part of a scientific method. We already have a way to transform premises. We know to be true into Universal truths. (edited)

Episode #005 ... Aristotle Pt. 1

True Value. And how did you make the people around? You feel? Hey guys, if your lip gloss. 

Episode #158 ... The Creation of Meaning - Nietzsche - The Ascetic Ideal

Guilt can be pretty easy to think about in a straightforward way. But start with the question. What is the function of guilt? As a social or psychological phenomenon, do we feel guilty in consideration of the victim? But let's consider some more aspects of guilt for a second considered. 

Episode #051 ... David Hume pt. 1

The last several episodes of the show consisted of me rambling on about some Island. Write something about a shipwreck. Somehow. We're all stranded on the island. For some reason. We can't get off the island. We need to play make-believe all day and I did all the different ways. Our Island society would look, if we just applied ideas present in various thinkers during the Age of Enlightenment. We consider the good ideas, too bad ideas, and I are six seasons of your life. I've been alluding to some climate. Can you tell me about polar bear and a smoke monster and telling you it's all going to come together in the end? Just wait for the finale. That's all going to make sense. Now, it's the finale and I'm giving you nothing. Look all kidding. Aside. I realized something this week you guys, there's no 

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