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2024-03-24 Margaret Cavendish
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What would it mean to believe in the radical equality of all things—humans, animals, trees, even rocks?

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  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
2335: Hegel, 8/29/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born August 27, 1770.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2023-08-27 Hegel
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born August 27, 1770.

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
2023-08-06 What Has Replaced Freud?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Freud may have laid the groundwork for a science of the unconscious, but didn’t he get most of it wrong?

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
2023-04-02 Why Poetry Matters
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are poems valuable because they do something for us, or are they gloriously useless?

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
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2314: Why Poetry Matters, 4/4/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Are poems valuable because they do something for us, or are they gloriously useless?

  • Added: Mar 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2309: Montaigne and the Art of the Essay, 2/28/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How did Michel de Montaigne (born February 28, 1533) invent a new way to do philosophy?

  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2023-02-26 Montaigne and the Art of the Essay
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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If philosophy is a way of life, what kind of writing best helps us live it?

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
2022-09-04 (End of) Summer Reading List: Banned Books Edition
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What thoughtful and controversial books do some people say other people shouldn’t read?

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
2022-07-17 Walter Benjamin and the Re-Enchanted World
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can we find enchantment without sacrificing reason?

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
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2022-06-12 Jean-Paul Sartre
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The father of Existentialism was born on June 21, 1905.

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2022
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
2202-03-13 Reading the Troubled Past
From: Philosophy Talk
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What should we do with literature and philosophy from a discredited moral past?

  • Added: Mar 14, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
2021-09-05 (End of) Summer Reading List
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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With summer ending and some parts of our lives returning to some kind of normal, what should thoughtful people be reading?

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
2021-02-19 Climate Narratives with Elizabeth Kolbert and Kim Stanley Robinson
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and i...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
210219: Climate Narratives with Elizabeth Kolbert and Kim Stanley Robinson, 2/19/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and i...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
2021-01-10 Comforting Conversations (Part 2)
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How can insights from the arts and humanities help us cope with difficult times?

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
2021-01-03 Comforting Conversations (Part 1)
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How can insights from the arts and humanities help us cope with difficult times?

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  • Added: Jan 02, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
2020-08-23 (There's Still) Time for Summer Reading
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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There's still time for deep reading this summer (and our 500th episode).

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
200515: Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis, 5/15/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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How do we confront the reality of a future that will be hauntingly different from today? Some authors are using fiction to create relatable narrati...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
2020-05-15 Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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How do we confront the reality of a future that will be hauntingly different from today? Some authors are using fiction to create relatable narrati...

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  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
2021-02-14 What Is Love?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Do you them because they're lovable, or are they lovable because you love them?

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
191213: Rewind: Jonathan Safran Foer and David Wallace-Wells, 12/13/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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A look back at conversations with two writers confronting the climate challenge in 2019. In "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming," David-Wa...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
2019-12-13 Rewind: Jonathan Safran Foer and David Wallace-Wells
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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A look back at conversations with two writers confronting the climate challenge in 2019. In "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming," David-Wa...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
191004: Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather, 10/4/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Is clinging to habits and cravings destroying our future? An outspoken critic of factory farming and animal-centric diets, Jonathan Safran Foer wri...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
19-10-04 Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Is clinging to habits and cravings destroying our future? An outspoken critic of factory farming and animal-centric diets, Jonathan Safran Foer wri...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7