Philosophize This!
Beginner friendly if listened to in order! For anyone interested in an educational podcast about philosophy where you don't need to be a graduate-level philosopher to understand it. In chronological order, the thinkers and ideas that forged the world we live in are broken down and explained.
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Episodes (251)
Episode #251 ... You Must Change Your Life, Pt. 2 - The Worlds That Make Us
Aug 8, 2026
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Episode #250 ... You Must Change Your Life. - Peter Sloterdijk
Jul 14, 2026
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Episode #249 ... The Trap of Modern Cynicism - Peter Sloterdijk
Jun 27, 2026
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Episode #248 ... What philosophers say about lying.
May 31, 2026
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Episode #247 ... The Failure of the Modern University - Alasdair MacIntyre
May 10, 2026
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Episode #246 ... The Myth of the Self-Made Person - Alasdair Macintyre
Apr 26, 2026
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Episode #245 ... The Rival Moral Approaches of the Modern World - Alasdair Macintyre
Apr 12, 2026
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Episode #244 ... After Virtue - Alasdair MacIntyre (why moral conversations feel unsatisfying)
Feb 11, 2026
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Episode #243 ... Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Dec 27, 2025
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Episode #242 ... Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Nov 29, 2025
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Episode #241 ... The Tragedy of Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
Nov 16, 2025
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Episode #240 ... Varieties of Religion Today (Charles Taylor)
Nov 8, 2025
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Episode #239 ... Authenticity and the history of the self. (Charles Taylor)
Oct 17, 2025
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Episode #238 ... Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Oct 8, 2025
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Episode #237 ... The Stoics Are Wrong - Nietzsche, Schopenhauer
Sep 30, 2025
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Episode #236 ... Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Sep 13, 2025
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Episode #235 ... The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism - Byung Chul Han
Sep 4, 2025
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Episode #234 ... The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Aug 13, 2025
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Episode #233 ... A philosophy of self-destruction. (Dostoevsky, Bataille)
Aug 4, 2025
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Episode #232 ... Byung Chul Han - The Crisis of Narration
Jul 7, 2025
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Episode #231 ... The Late Work of Wittgenstein - Language Games
Jun 28, 2025
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Episode #230 ... Hope as an Existentialism (Ernst Bloch)
Jun 14, 2025
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Episode #229 - Kafka and Totalitarianism (Arendt, Adorno)
May 25, 2025
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Episode #228 ... Albert Camus - Kafka and The Fall
May 12, 2025
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Episode #227 ... Albert Camus - On Exile
Apr 18, 2025
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Episode #226 - Albert Camus - The Rebel
Apr 4, 2025
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Episode #225 ... Albert Camus - The Plague
Mar 27, 2025
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Episode #224 ... Albert Camus - The Stranger
Mar 15, 2025
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Episode #223 ... Religion and the duck-rabbit - Kyoto School pt. 3
Mar 3, 2025
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Episode #222 ... Dostoevsky - Love in The Brothers Karamazov
Feb 16, 2025
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Episode #221 ... Dostoevsky - The Idiot
Feb 1, 2025
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Episode #220 ... Dostoevsky - Demons
Jan 13, 2025
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Episode #219 ... Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Dec 23, 2024
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Episode #218 ... Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground
Dec 17, 2024
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Episode #217 ... Religion and Nothingness - Kyoto School pt. 2 - Nishitani
Dec 6, 2024
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Episode #216 ... The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism - Kyoto School pt. 1 - Nishitani
Nov 18, 2024
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Episode #215 ... How Mysticism is missing in our modern lives. (Critchley, Heidegger)
Oct 30, 2024
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Episode #214 ... Framing our Being in a completely different way. (Heidegger)
Oct 21, 2024
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Episode #213 ... Deleuze Interprets Nietzsche (Difference, Joy, Affirmation)
Oct 13, 2024
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Episode #212 ... Nietzsche and Critchley on the tragic perspective. (Amor Fati pt. 2)
Sep 30, 2024
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Episode #211 ... Nietzsche returns with a hammer!
Sep 22, 2024
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Episode #210 ... The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire, Education)
Sep 12, 2024
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Episode #209 ... Improving our world through applied ethics. (Peter Singer, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek)
Aug 26, 2024
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Episode #208 ... The moral evolution of a philosopher. (Peter Singer)
Aug 18, 2024
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Episode #207 ... Fear is toxic to a democracy. (Martha Nussbaum)
Aug 1, 2024
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Episode #206 ... Capitalism is dead. This is Technofeudalism. (Yanis Varoufakis)
Jul 21, 2024
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Episode #205 ... Why a meritocracy is corrosive to society. (Michael Sandel)
Jul 1, 2024
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Episode #204 ... The importance of philosophy, justice and the common good. (Michael Sandel)
Jun 24, 2024
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Episode #203 ... Why the future is being slowly cancelled. - Postmodernism (Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism)
Jun 17, 2024
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Episode #202 ... Why we can't think beyond capitalism. - Neoliberalism (Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism)
Jun 3, 2024
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