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  • "If there’s no reason to believe that anything matters, then that doesn’t matter either, and so we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of despair"

    "If there’s no reason to believe that anything matters, then that doesn’t matter either, and so we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of despair"
    2023/05/31

    Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher. In this episode, I talk about why it is he thinks absurdity is not a cause for despair! 
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    13 分
  • "Consciousness is a disease"

    "Consciousness is a disease"
    2023/05/22

    Miguel de Unamuno was a Spanish philosopher. In this episode, I discuss his disturbing conclusion that consciousness is a disease! And so maybe we'd be better off being a crab than a human! 
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    12 分
  • “The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world”

    “The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world”
    2023/05/16

    Albert Camus was a French writer and philosopher. In this episode, I talk about his famous notion of the absurd and what he thinks the right response to it is! 
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    13 分
  • "I can never catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception"

    "I can never catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception"
    2023/05/08

    David Hume was an 18th century philosopher. He was skeptical about the idea that we have a permanent self that exists over time! 
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    12 分
  • "Count no man happy until he be dead"

    "Count no man happy until he be dead"
    2023/05/02

    Solon was one of the seven wise men of Greece.  In this episode I discuss one of his famous quotes, "Count no man happy until he be dead". I also talk about how this had an influence on the later Aristotle. 
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    13 分
  • "Practice non-action. Work without doing."

    "Practice non-action. Work without doing."
    2023/04/22

    Lao-Tzu was an ancient Chinese philosopher, who's considered to be the founder of Taoism. In this episode, I discuss his quote "Practice non-action, Work without doing."! 
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    13 分
  • "No one does wrong willingly"

    "No one does wrong willingly"
    2023/04/15

    Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher. In this episode, I talk about his very famous slogan, "No one does wrong willingly"! 
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    13 分
  • “Once thrown into the world, man is responsible for everything he does”

    “Once thrown into the world, man is responsible for everything he does”
    2023/04/10

    Jean Paul Sartre is a French existentialist philosopher. No philosopher has said as much about freedom and responsibility as he has! 
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    12 分