Episodes

  • To Our Children
    Aug 23 2025

    We walk in the shadows we cast. Let's be the architects of a better future.

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    7 mins
  • Samuel Beckett - "I can't go on. I'll go on."
    Aug 22 2025

    This is the famous last line in one of Beckett's novels. But it's not just a last line, it's a credo for human existence!

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    14 mins
  • Reclaiming the power of Melancholy!
    Aug 17 2025

    We treat melancholy as a pathology, something to be cured or eradicated. But we've lost sight of it's real value!

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    11 mins
  • Alexander Nehamas - Platonic Irony!
    Aug 17 2025

    Socrates doesn't just undermine his interlocutors, Plato undermines us! Or so argues the contemporary philosopher Alexander Nehamas!

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    14 mins
  • The Pathetic Nature of the Sycophant!
    Aug 14 2025

    They all gushed over Nero, and they're no different today! It's all very embarrassing and sad.

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    11 mins
  • The Absurd and the Sand: A Camusian Reading of Woman in the Dunes
    Aug 8 2025

    Woman in the Dunes is a 1964 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. It's about a guy who gets trapped in a sandpit and has to keep shovelling sand to stay alive! It's a repetitive and futile situation! Ring any bells?

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    19 mins
  • Aristotle and Nietzsche - A return to TOUCH in a disembodied age!
    Aug 8 2025

    In our age of digitization, our sense of touch has clearly been demoted. For thinkers like Aristotle and Nietzsche, the cost is enormous!

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    12 mins
  • The Philosopher and his Poodles: Schopenhauer's Ethics of Compassion!
    Aug 4 2025

    The German philosopher Schopenhauer believed that compassion was the true foundation of morality. It worked best when it came to his dogs!

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    16 mins