Episode 114: Schopenhauer: “The World Is...

In immediate reaction to the Apple TV+ Seth Rogan show The Studio, we talk about Hollywood's obsession with itself and how studio dynamics interfere with what exactly we all get to see. Also, what's with the fascination with old Hollywood? What's the appeal of Hollywood gossip? E ... Show More

We dive further into the text of lectures 1 and 2 of The Sources of Normativity (1996). We give Korsgaard's account of the idea of reflective endorsement through Hume and Bernard Williams to get to her own view. When you come to know the origins of your moral sentiments, do you s ... Show More

This famed finger-style guitarist broke through with Jefferson Airplane's seven albums from 1966-1972, recorded eight with Hot Tuna 1970-1976 (with subsequent reunions by both bands), recorded his first solo album in 1974 and then 10 more from 1981-2025, and has collaborated with ... Show More

L’invité : Vincent Capdepuy, enseignant et géohistorien Le livre : Le monde ou rien, histoire d’un concept géographique, Lyon, Presses universitaires de Lyon, 2023. La discussion : Introduction (00:00) Une réflexion dans la longue durée sur la notion de « monde » (00:00) Œcoumène ... Show More

Welcome to The Nietzsche Podcast! In this first episode, we introduce Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), through the passage, "How the True World Finally Became a Fable", from his book, The Twilight of Idols. In this passage, Nietzsche sketches the history of a particular error in ... Show More

In Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. describes the nightmare of total equality, a society in which equality is finally achieved, but at the cost of freedom and individuality. One’s utopia is another’s dystopia.   We’ll be exploring the increasing promotion of equality to the p ... Show More

الكنيسة جسد ضعيف لكن حيّ الله مش بيبعت رسالة ولا ناس كاملة برّاقة لكن بيبعت جسد حيّ يقدم أندرو عرض لمشكلة العالم المكسور في ٤ أبعاد👇 - الخلاص جماعي  أي موجود في جماعة: كلنا ماشين ورا المسيح وعايشين عشان نوصّل حياته - الخلاص كوني الله عنده هدف أنه يفتدي كل شيء في الكون، في السماو ... Show More

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 8, 2024 is: Weltanschauung • \VELT-ahn-show-ung ("ow" as in "cow")\  • noun A Weltanschauung is a worldview; in other words, a comprehensive conception or apprehension of the world especially from a specific standpoint. The wo ... Show More

From politics and economics to psychology and the arts, many of the modern ideas we take for granted emerged a century ago from a single European capital. In this episode of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, the historian Richard Cockett explores all those ideas — and how the arr ... Show More

We are creatures of the epigean world: the world of light on Earth’s surface. But there is another world – a world beneath the surface. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe venture into the world of cave biology or biospeleology. See omnystudio.com/listener ... Show More

Authors  Susan C. Pearce and Jennifer O’Neill discuss the article, "One World, Many Stories: Finding Human Connection through Global Sociology," published in the April 2024 issue of Teaching Sociology.