حديث جديد من احاديث الثقافة لهذا الاسبوع وهو في الحقيقة حديث على غير عادته لأنه سيحلق بنا في عوالم الفكر الفلسفي العربي من خلال شخصية إستثنائية في فكرها ومسارها ، تعدى صيته الشرق والغرب، بمشروع فكري ينهل منه القاصي والداني، بأفكاره خلق حالة نقاش ممتدة في الزمن من خلال تفكيك ونقد العقل العربي ...إنه صاحب الآراء والأطروحات ذات الحمولات المتعددة والتي أثارت الك ... Show More
Feb 2023
65: Ibn Khaldun - The Muqaddimah
From all accounts, Nietzsche did not read nor comment upon the work of Ibn Khaldun, outside of a few remarks from Schopenhauer in one of his essays that Nietzsche might have read. But what we find in his Muqaddimah is a theory of cyclical history, in which many of the key princip ... Show More
1h 24m
Jun 2024
Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī and Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh, "The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century" (NYU Press, 2019/22)
Today I talked to James Montgomery, one of the translators of The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, two volumes (NYU Press, 2019 and 2022). About the book:
Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, ... Show More
1h 28m
Feb 2023
Monima Chadha, "Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu's Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Buddhists are famous for their thesis that selves do not exist. But if they are right, what would that thesis mean for our apparent sense of self and for ordinary practices involving selves—or at least persons? In Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu’s Metaphy ... Show More
1h 5m
Feb 2024
85: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, pt. 1 - Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks is one of the more obscure texts in Friedrich Nietzsche’s corpus. There are many good reasons for this: it is unfinished, and ends abruptly; it was never published; and it concerns subject matter that is not as immediately accessible as ... Show More
1h 26m
Apr 2025
Extra: Boxing & Business with George Foreman
In remembrance of the life of George Foreman, we've gone back to the Motley Fool Radio Show vault to bring you this interview with the former heavyweight champion. From poverty to fame, sport to business, cattle to annuities, Foreman was fully invested in a life well-lived. A wor ... Show More
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