Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald
By Andrew McDonald
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Episodes: 140
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Dr Andrew McDonald with several years of teaching experience at the University of Dundee takes listeners through a close reading of philosophical texts that allow us to delve into a deeper understanding of them. It is friendly to those new to philosophy and gives easy to understand examples throughout.
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Episode 122| Herbert Marcuse One Dimensional Man | One Dimensional Philosophy
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Episode 121| Herbert Marcuse One Dimensional Man | Science and the Perpetual Struggle
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Episode 120| Herbert Marcuse One Dimensional Man | Philosophy, The Search for Truth and the Privileging of the Intellectual Life
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Episode 119| Herbert Marcuse One Dimensional Man | One Dimensional Language
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Episode 118| Herbert Marcuse One Dimensional Man l The Artist and Culture in PreIndustrial Society and in 1960s Society
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Episode 117| Herbert Marcuse One Dimensional Man l From Marx's Industrial Society to 1960s Society
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Episode 116| Herbert Marcuse One Dimensional Man l Totalitarianism and One Dimensional Thought
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Episode 115| Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle l Urbanism and Detournement
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Episode 114| Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle l Time and the Spectacle
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Episode 113| Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle l A History of The Spectacle
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Episode 112| Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle l The Spectacle and Globalisation, Politics, Celebrities and Banality
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Episode 111| Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle l Commodities as a Spectacle
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Episode 110| Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle l The Spectacle
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Special Episode 18| Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy| Socrates' Removal of the Dionysian
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Special Episode 17| Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy| Apollonian and Dionysian Art
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Episode 109| Interview with Frank Ruda l The Relevance of The Communist Manifesto
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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Episode 108| Interview with Frank Ruda l How Do We Think Like The Proletariat?
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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Episode 107| Interview with Frank Ruda l Part 3 of The Communist Manifesto
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Episode 106| Interview with Frank Ruda l Marx and Engel's Ideas of The Bourgeoisie, The Proletariat And Communism
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Episode 105| Interview with Frank Ruda l Marx and Engel's Use of History and The Bourgeoisie
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Episode 104| Interview with Frank Ruda l Reading Marx and His Relation to Hegel
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Special Episode 16| Aristotle's Metaphysics| Problems with Plato
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Special Episode 15| Aristotle's Metaphysics| Problems with the PreSocratics
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May 31, 2021 |
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Episode 103| Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism l Ideology and Terror Part 2
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May 24, 2021 |
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Episode 102| Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism l Ideology and Terror
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May 17, 2021 |
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Episode 101| Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism l 3 Steps To Total Domination
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May 10, 2021 |
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Episode 100| Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism | Concentration Camps
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May 03, 2021 |
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Episode 99| Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism | A Surveillance Society
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Episode 98| Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism | Tracking And Hunting Down Enemies
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Episode 97| Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism | Problems With The Totalitarian State
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Episode 96| Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism | The Creation of The Totalitarian State
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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Episode 95| Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism | Permanent Revolution
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Episode 94| Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism | Lies and Fanaticism
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Episode 93| Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism | Leaders' Rise to Power, Tyrants and Secret Societies
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Episode 92| Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism | Sympathisers, Party Members, and the Totalitarian Regime's Fictional World
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Episode 91| Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism | The Masses' Psychology and the Nazi's Antisemitism
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Episode 90| Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism | Indoctrination, Science and Prophecy
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Episode 89| Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism | The Removal of Hypocrisy, 20th Century Art and the Holocaust
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Episode 88| Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism | WWI and The Origins of the Masses
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Episode 87| Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism | Psychology and the Difference Between Totalitarianism and Dictatorships
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Episode 86| Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism | Lenin, Stalin and the Atomisation of Society
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Episode 85| Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism | The Indifferent Mass and Propaganda
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Episode 84| Camus The Fall Part 2 |Clamence Reveals His Game
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Episode 83| Camus The Fall Part 1 | Meeting Jean Baptiste Clamence
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Special Episode 14| Kobe Bryant Mamba Mentality | Kobe Bryant's Philosophy for Greatness
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Episode 82| Camus The Plague Part 5 | Life After The Plague
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Episode 81| Camus The Plague Part 4 | Forks in the Road
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Episode 80| Camus The Plague Part 3 | The Horror of Banality
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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Episode 79| Camus The Plague Part 2 | A Psychology of Lockdown and an Ethics of Decency
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Episode 78| Camus The Plague Part 1 | Camus and Covid-19
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Episode 77| Camus Create Dangerously | Creativity and Taking A Risk
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Special Episode 13| Plato's Phaedo | Plato's Purpose of Philosophy
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Episode 76| Zarathustra Part 4 General Discussion| What Would It Be Like To Accept The Death of God?
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Special Episode 12| Plato's Meno Part 2| Plato's Theory of Knowledge
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Episode 75| Zarathustra The Sign | The Lion, Newness and Change
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Special Episode 11| Plato's Meno Part 1| Achieving Clarity
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Episode 74| Zarathustra The Intoxicated Song Sections 7-12 | Love and the Eternal Return
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Special Episode 10| Plato's Apology | The Socratic Method and The Athenian Law Court
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Episode 73| Zarathustra The Intoxicated Song Sections 1-6 | Intoxicated by Happiness and Contentment
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Special Episode 9| Plato on Greek Oration and Plato's Style | The Art of Persuasion and Achieving Consensus
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Episode 72| Zarathustra The Donkey Festival | Idols, Consumer Society and New Seasonal Holidays
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Special Episode 8| Parmenides | There Can Be Only One
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Episode 71| Zarathustra The Awakening | In Praise of Donkeys
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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Special Episode 7| The Pre-Socratics and Heraclitus | Early Philosophy and The Importance of Novelty
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Episode 70| Zarathustra Among the Daughters of the Desert |A European Mindset
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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Episode 69| Zarathustra The Song of Melancholy and Of Science |Animals, Ethics and Courage
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Episode 68| Zarathustra The Higher Men Sections 15-20 | The Joy and Necessity of Laughter
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Episode 67| Zarathustra The Higher Men Sections 7-14 | Getting out of a Creative Slump
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Episode 66| Zarathustra The Last Supper and The Higher Men Sections 1-6 | Diets, The Mob and Critical Thinking
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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Episode 65| Zarathustra The Greeting | Creating a New Child Like Foundation
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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Episode 64| Zarathustra At Noontide | Happiness is the Little Things in Life
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Episode 63| Zarathustra The Shadow | Existential Crisis
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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Episode 62| Zarathustra The Voluntary Beggar |Living the Good Life in Nature with Cows
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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Episode 61| Zarathustra The Ugliest Man | A Conversation With The Murderer of God
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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Episode 60| Zarathustra Retired From Service | The Death of God
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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Episode 59| Zarathustra The Sorcerer | The Strawman of Greatness
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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Episode 58| Zarathustra The Leech | The Manipulation of Opinions
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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Episode 57| Zarathustra The Cry of Distress and Conversation with Kings| Nihilism, Falsity and Acting
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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Episode 56| Zarathustra The Honey Offering| Becoming and the Self
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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Episode 55| Zarathustra Part 3 General Summary| The Eternal Return and Creating Our Self
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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Episode 54| Zarathustra The Seven Seals| Time and Fragility
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May 25, 2020 |
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Episode 53| Zarathustra The Second Dance| Life, the World and Cracking the Whip
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May 18, 2020 |
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Episode 52| Zarathustra The Great Longing| Creativity and Longing for Acceptance
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May 11, 2020 |
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Episode 51| Zarathustra The Convalescent |Cruelty, Music and the Eternal Return
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May 04, 2020 |
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Episode 50| Zarathustra Old and New Law Tables Sections 23 - 30| Relationships, Morality and Anthropology
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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Episode 49| Zarathustra Old and New Law Tables Sections 17 - 22| Parasites and Success
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Episode 48| Zarathustra Old and New Law Tables Sections 11 - 16| History and Liberation
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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Episode 47| Zarathustra Old and New Law Tables Sections 6 - 10| Good and Evil, Ethics and Flux
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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Episode 46| Zarathustra Old and New Law Tables Sections 1 - 5| Towards New Ideas
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Episode 45| Zarathustra The Spirit of Gravity| Finding Our Own Way
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Episode 44| Zarathustra Three Evil Things |Sensuality, Lust For Power And Selfishness
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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Episode 43| Zarathustra The Homecoming |Philosophy and Misanthropy
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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Episode 42| Zarathustra The Apostates |Belief Without Religion
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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Episode 41| Zarathustra Mount of Olives and Passing By |Hardship, Veils and Critical Analysis
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Episode 40| Zarathustra The Virtue That Makes Small |Striving for Excellence
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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Episode 39| Zarathustra Involuntary Bliss and Before Sunrise |Care for Ourselves and Chance
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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Episode 38| Zarathustra The Vision and The Riddle |Courage and the Eternal Return
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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Episode 37| Zarathustra The Wanderer |Knowledge as Mountain Climbing
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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Episode 36| Zarathustra Part 2 General Discussion
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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Special Episode 6| Rene Descartes Meditation Three| God and Establishing The Metaphysical Foundation
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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Episode 35| Zarathustra Manly Prudence and the Stillest Hour |Affirming Our Flaws and Rejecting Idolatry
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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Episode 34| Zarathustra Redemption |Challenges of Self Improvement
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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Episode 33| Zarathustra The Prophet |Schopenhauer and Laughter
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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Episode 32| Zarathustra Great Events| The Importance of The Little Things
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Dec 23, 2019 |
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Episode 31| Zarathustra Scholars and Poets| Thinking and Creating Dangerously
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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Episode 30| Zarathustra Immaculate Perception |Breaking Ideality
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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Episode 29| Zarathustra Land of Culture | Problems in The Present
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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Special Episode 5| Rene Descartes Meditation Two| The Mind, Thought and Wax
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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Episode 28| Zarathustra Self Overcoming and Sublime Men| Psychology of Truth and Problems with Self Superiority
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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Episode 27| Zarathustra The Dance Song and The Funeral Song| Life, Wisdom and Perseverance
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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Episode 26| Zarathustra Famous Philosophers and The Night Song| Task of Philosophers and Opinions as Gifts
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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Special Episode 4| Rene Descartes Meditation One| Doubt, Dreams and the Evil Deceiver
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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Episode 25| Zarathustra The Rabble and The Tarantulas| Power, Resistance and The Problems of Equality
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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Episode 24| Zarathustra The Virtuous |Superheroes and Parenting
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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Episode 23| Zarathustra The Compassionate and The Priests| Psychology of Compassion and Faith vs. Science
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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Episode 22| Zarathustra The Child with the Mirror and The Blissful Islands| Challenging Our Views and Creativity as Therapy
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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Special Episode 3| Roland Barthes on Toys, the Poor and the Working Class| Psychology of Toys and the Work Place
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Episode 21| Zarathustra Part 1 General Discussion| Child-like Creativity and the Problems of Creation
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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Special Episode 2| An Introduction to Philosophy| Knowledge and Apprenticeship
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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Episode 20| Zarathustra Bestowing Virtue | Creativity, Teaching and Personal Development
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Episode 19| Zarathustra Voluntary Death | Death and Christ
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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Episode 18| Zarathustra Adders Bite and Marriage and Children| Debate, Relationships and Raising Children
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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Episode 17| Zarathustra Way of the Creator and Old and Young Women| Creativity and Women
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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Episode 16| Zarathustra Love of One's Neighbor| Ethics, Acting and Ideality
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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Episode 15| Zarathustra Friends and One Thousand and One Goals| Companions, Ethical Principals, Evaluation
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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Episode 14| Zarathustra Flies of the Marketplace and Chastity| Herd mentality, Actors, Sex drive
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Aug 14, 2019 |
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Episode 13| Zarathustra War and Warriors and New Idols| Critical thinking, Government, Politicians
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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Episode 12| Zarathustra Tree On The Mountainside And Preachers Of Death| Creativity, Ideality and Goals
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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Episode 11| Zarathustra Reading and Writing| Creativity and Style
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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Episode 10| Zarathustra Joys and Passions and the Pale Criminal |Ethics, Life Coaches and Murder
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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Episode 9| Zarathustra Despisers of the Body| Instinctual Drives, the Body and the Self
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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Episode 8| Zarathustra Chairs of Virtue and Afterworldsmen| Psychology, Virtue and the Afterlife
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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Episode 7| Zarathustra Of The Three Metamorphoses| Burdens, Freedom and the Creation of New Values
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Special Episode 1| Roland Barthes on Wrestling| Morality, Suffering and Justice
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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Episode 6| Zarathustra Prologue General Discussion| Prophecy, Idolatry and A Way of Life
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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Episode 5| Zarathustra Prologue Sections 9 and 10| Friendship, Revaluation and Reason vs. Desire
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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Episode 4| Zarathustra Prologue Sections 6, 7 and 8| Buffoons, Knowledge and Living Dangerously
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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Episode 3| Zarathustra Prologue Sections 4 and 5 Goals, Love and the Ultimate Men
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May 24, 2019 |
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Episode 2| Zarathustra Prologue Section 3 The Superman
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May 20, 2019 |
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Episode 1| Zarathustra Prologue Sections 1 and 2| Going Down The Mountain
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May 15, 2019 |