The Wisdom Of
By Kristian Urstad and Stephen Webb
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In this podcast we explore great works of philosophy and literature and art, and try to pull out of them what’s most interesting and inspiring! Whether they come from the works of Plato, or Dostoevsky or Picasso, here we explore ideas that move mountains and rock the soul! So, come join us, won’t you? Come worship at the alter of ideas, and come celebrate the dancing of thought. Welcome to the Wisdom Of!
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Bertrand Russell - Fear of Public Opinion!
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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The disappearance of mystery in a world of technique!
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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The benefits of living a more simple life!
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Final Regular Podcast Episode - The six thinkers and artists that have inspired me the most!
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Jung and The Stages of Life - Mid-life crisis and old age!
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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The degeneration of gift-giving! A Christmas special!
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Nietzsche on Buddhism!
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Kafka's Letter to his Father!
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Sartre vs. Camus: Revolutionary vs. Rebel - The Big Dispute!
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Can you be grateful for life if you're an atheist?
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Existentialism and Cezanne's Doubt!
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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Lucretius - A spoonful of sugar!
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Heraclitus - The times they are a-changin!
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Thanatos - The fear of, and the desire for, death!
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Some thoughts on the notion of the suffering artist!
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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John Stuart Mill - The marketplace of ideas, and the question of Truth!
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Flaubert, le mot juste, and Schopenhauer's philosophy of language!
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Euripides' Medea - Revenge turned into something inhuman!
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Vico and The New Science - The Barbarism of Reflection!
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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Make work a vocation not a job!
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Saving the sublime and bringing back the awe in awesome!
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Some differences between Eastern and Western philosophy
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Karl Marx - Religion is a product of social disorder!
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Can the immoralist be happy?
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Do you really want to live forever?
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Are you a Platonist or an Aristotelian?
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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The Pros and Cons of Nostalgia!
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Eros and Agape - Two great but very different kinds of love!
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Lou Salome - Was Nietzsche actually religious?
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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What I like about Robinson Crusoe!
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Descartes' I think, therefore I am!
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Courage!
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Rebellion against the Masses!
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Fromm's To Have or To Be?
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Does money bring happiness?!
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Negative and Positive Freedom! (Isaiah Berlin, Plato and Fromm)
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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The power and sound of silence!
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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My problem with Tolstoy's Confession!
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May 27, 2023 |
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Pierre Hadot's Philosophy as a Way of Life
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May 17, 2023 |
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Plato's Allegory of the Cave: A warning to us!
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May 13, 2023 |
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Negative Visualization: the art of coping with tragedy!
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May 07, 2023 |
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Why we should care about classical antiquity!
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May 04, 2023 |
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Gabriel Marcel's Man Against Mass Society
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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A Philosophy Short: Privilege the present over the past! (Sartre and Nietzsche)
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Badiou's In Praise of Love
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Nussbaum and Nietzsche on Revenge and Punishment
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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A Philosophy Short: Only humans can die! (Rousseau and Heidegger)
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Heidegger, ChatGPT, Buber and our bot relationships!
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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Niceness is Overrated!
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Why our death isn't always about ourselves!
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Aldous Huxley, Psychedelics and God!
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Indigenous thought
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Thoreau and the Companionship of Solitude
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Marcus Aurelius - Even emperors have no power over death!
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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William Barrett on Modern Art and Existentialism
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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Ideology
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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D.H. Lawrence and Schopenhauer on Sex and Love
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Ayn Rand
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Boethius's Consolations and the Talking Cure
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Camus' The Fall
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Shatner's tears and Earth's little onion skin
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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The love letters of Heloise and Abelard
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Courage, Tillich, and that coward Silenus!
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Happiness is Overrated!
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Evil
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Byung-Chul Han on Fingers, Phones and the Strangeness of Socrates!
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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Existentialism - The Philosophy of Affirmation!
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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Santa and Ethics!
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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Nehamas's Only a Promise of Happiness - The Place of Beauty in a World of Art
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Atheism! (Part 2/2)
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Atheism! (Part 1/2)
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Pascal's Pensées
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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The Allure of Mystery Novels
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Homer's Iliad
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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Climate Change, Solidarity and Love
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Eliade's The Sacred and the Profane
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Nov 26, 2022 |
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Rollo May on Anxiety, Freedom and Creativity!
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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Why Socrates is Still Important Today!
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Fromm's The Art of Loving
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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Nietzsche on Happiness, Meaning and Overcoming Resistance
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Moral Purity and Dirty Hands
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Carl Jung and Becoming All That You Are!
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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The Copernican Revolution
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Plato on Education and Beauty
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Voltaire's Candide - It's not all for the best!
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Camus and Nietzsche on Hope
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Rationalism versus Irrationalism
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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Tolstoy's How Much Land Does a Man Need?
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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The Top Philosophy Quotes of All Time! - Epictetus and Camus
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Turgenev's Fathers and Sons
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Nietzsche's Three Metamorphoses of the Spirit
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Hesse's Siddhartha
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Wall-E and the Soul of Dirt
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Simone de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Mill's Higher and Lower Pleasures
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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The Immorality of Tipping
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Heidegger and the Typewriter
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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The Top Philosophy Quotes of All Time! - Sartre and Nietzsche
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Aug 20, 2022 |
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Dante and Vice
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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Byung-Chul Han's Non-Things
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Orwell's Animal Farm
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Aug 06, 2022 |
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What is Philosophy?
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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The Top Philosophy Quotes of All Time! - Kierkegaard and Locke
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Arendt's The Human Condition
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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What is a Work of Art?
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Thomas Nagel and Absurdity
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Nietzsche and the Love of Life
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Kierkegaard's Diary of the Seducer
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Suffering and Happiness
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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The Top Philosophy Quotes of All Time! - Protagoras and Marx
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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Fromm's Escape From Freedom
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Jun 18, 2022 |
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Intro For New Listeners
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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Iris Murdoch
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Sartre's Nausea: How to Live Your Life Like a Song!
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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The Burdens and Benefits of Boredom
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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The Top Philosophy Quotes of All Time! - Berkeley and Leibniz
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May 28, 2022 |
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Seneca's The Shortness of Life
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May 23, 2022 |
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Would Socrates use Twitter?
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May 18, 2022 |
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Heidegger's Being and Time
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May 14, 2022 |
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A Eulogy on Love
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May 10, 2022 |
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Elon Musk and Mars
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May 09, 2022 |
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Anton Chekhov
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May 08, 2022 |
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Love and Possession
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May 04, 2022 |
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The Sun
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May 03, 2022 |
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Peter Singer on Animals
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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The Benefit of Being a Crab
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Simone Weil
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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Freedom and Responsibility
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Ecclesiastes
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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Socrates and Care of the Soul
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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Gratitude
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Buddhism and Stoicism on Anger
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Beckett's Molloy
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Apr 02, 2022 |
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Anthropocentrism
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Zorba the Greek
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Mar 26, 2022 |
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Narcissism
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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Plato's Republic
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Buber and The Tyranny of the IT
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Ibsen's A Doll's House
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Sartre and the Creation of Value
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Hesse's Journey to the East
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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Nietzsche and the Tightrope Walker
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Lao Tzu and Taoism
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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Free Speech
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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Pain
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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The Fragility of Goodness
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Thinking in a Digital Age
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Dostoevsky and The Problem of Evil
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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The Cynic Diogenes and his Wine Barrel
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Gods - Yahweh
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Aristotle and Character Development
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Gods - Thor
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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The Stoics on Fate
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Gods - Buddha
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Jan 16, 2022 |
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Gods - Jesus
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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Gods - Gaia
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Grace
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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Beauty - Camus' Lyrical Essays
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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Beauty - The Song of Songs
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Dec 12, 2021 |
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The Ancient Greek countryside
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Beauty - Sports
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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Beauty - Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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The Passionate Life! Something to Inspire Your Mornings With!
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Beauty - Nabokov's Lolita
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Science & Tech - The Dispossessed
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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Science & Tech - Brave New World
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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Science & Tech - Star Trek
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Science & Tech - Nietzsche
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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Science & Tech - Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Listener Requests - Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Listener Requests - Lord of the Flies
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Listener Requests - Shakespeare's Hamlet
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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Listener Requests - Dostoevsky's The Possessed
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Sep 18, 2021 |
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Ancient Happiness
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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Listener Requests - Emily Dickinson
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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A Thanks to the Listeners!
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Tragedy - Orwell's 1984
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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Tragedy - Moby Dick
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Aug 21, 2021 |
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Tragedy - Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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Tragedy - Euripides' Bacchae
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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Tragedy - Waiting For Godot
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Jul 31, 2021 |
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Films - Rashomon
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Jul 24, 2021 |
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Films - The Tree of Life
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Jul 17, 2021 |
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Q&A in the Deep Dark Forest!
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Greek Hospitality
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Jul 04, 2021 |
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Schweitzer's Reverence For Life
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Films - Fight Club
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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Films - Fellini's 8 1/2
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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Films - Star Wars
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Empedocles' Cosmic Powers
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May 31, 2021 |
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Paintings - Van Gogh's Starry Night
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May 29, 2021 |
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Paintings - Frida Kahlo
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May 22, 2021 |
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Paintings - Munch's The Scream
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May 15, 2021 |
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The Wide Life
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May 10, 2021 |
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Paintings - Picasso's The Young Ladies of Avignon
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May 08, 2021 |
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Masks
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May 01, 2021 |
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Paintings - The Lascaux Cave Paintings
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May 01, 2021 |
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Authenticity - Camus' The Stranger
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Apr 24, 2021 |
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Carl Jung and Rollo May on the power of words and symbols!
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Authenticity - Alice Munro
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Apr 17, 2021 |
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Aristotle on Friendship
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Authenticity - Salinger's Catcher in the Rye
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Apr 11, 2021 |
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An ode to Dogs!
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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Authenticity - Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
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Apr 03, 2021 |
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Authenticity - Bob Dylan
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Mar 28, 2021 |
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Authenticity - Kafka's Metamorphosis
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Mar 20, 2021 |
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Morality - Rousseau's Emile
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Morality - Conrad's Heart of Darkness
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Mar 06, 2021 |
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Morality - Gide's The Immoralist
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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Morality - Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
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Feb 20, 2021 |
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Morality - The Story of Abraham and Isaac
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Feb 13, 2021 |
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Morality - Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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Happiness - John Keats
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Jan 30, 2021 |
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Happiness - F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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Happiness - Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus
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Jan 16, 2021 |
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Happiness - Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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Happiness - Epicurus' Letter to Menoeceus
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Jan 02, 2021 |
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Happiness - Herodotus
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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Love - Thomas Mann's Death in Venice
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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Love - Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
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Dec 19, 2020 |
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Love - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Love - Homer's Odyssey
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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Love - Sappho
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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Love - Plato's Symposium
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Nov 28, 2020 |
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Meaning - Cervantes' Don Quixote
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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Meaning - Hemingway's A Clean Well Lighted Place
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Nov 14, 2020 |
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Meaning - Camus' The Plague
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Meaning - Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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Meaning - The Book of Job
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Meaning - The Epic Of Gilgamesh
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Oct 24, 2020 |