PREMIUM-PEL End-of-Summer Nightcap 2023

On Mere Christianity (1952), where Lewis presents the moral argument for the existence of God and present Christianity as uniquely solving the human conundrum that our moral phenomenology presents, i.e. that the moral law is real in us yet we can never fulfill it. Once you're on ... Show More

Your wise and authoritative hosts explore forms of respectful address, what counts as good philosophy, the holodeck full-contact Fantasy Island experience, status in economic transactions, Trek not War, default improv scenarios, fear of playfulness, philosophy or improv as educat ... Show More

We conclude our treatment for the moment of the Spirit section of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, sec. 527-73. Hegel's diagnosis: The Enlightenment and faith only seem to be in conflict because they are two sides of "pure consciousness," i.e. thought as a retreat from the actual ... Show More

<p class="p1">Sam Harris speaks with Geoffrey Miller about evolutionary psychology. They discuss sexual selection, virtue signaling, social media, public shaming, monogamy and polyamory, taboo topics in science, genetic engineering, gender differences and the "Google memo," moral ... Show More

LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! This week, since everyone else is, we're talking Barbie and Oppenheimer. We talk the role of fantasy in ideology, and the culture war as a distraction from class antagonism. Along the way we chat about Indiana Jones, Paul Verhoeven, and Michael's ... Show More

<span>It's the last day of school before summer break. The girlies are chatting about a puppet-mandatory wedding, Jeffree Star's right to lead yaks to the slaughter, and the secret to never getting a UTI again. Support the podcast on Patreon and find us during our summer vacay at ... Show More

Sam Harris speaks with David Pizarro and Tamler Sommers about free speech on campus, the Scott Adams podcast, the failings of the mainstream media, moral persuasion, moral certainty, the ethics of abortion, Buddhism, the illusion of the self, and other topics. If the Making Sense ... Show More

<p class="p1">Sam Harris speaks with Bret Weinstein about the moral panic at Evergreen State College, the concept of race, genetic differences between human populations, intersectionality, sex and gender, "metaphorical truth," religion and "group selection," equality, and other t ... Show More

The girlies bring you a classic chatty episode exploring emotional labor, free speech, and that one cartoon sound effect that plays when someone slips on a banana. Even more digressions include: secret Mormon influencers, why Coachella sucks, and a follow up on a crucial mailbox ... Show More

<p><strong>podmothers sephy &amp; wing enter the chat:</strong> spiralling on feeling lost and left behind, growing up, aging, identity, sex, dating, growth, change, and the future. ✷</p><br><p>shop ✷ <a href="https://open.acast.com/networks/61b9f3e533f31d0014e4335e/shows/5f90503 ... Show More