Philosophize This!

Stephen West

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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Top 10 Philosophize This! Episodes

Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Philosophize This! episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Philosophize This! for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Philosophize This! episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Episode #001 ... Presocratic Philosophy - Ionian

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06/06/13 • 49 min

Today we discussed the "Out of Africa" theory, the adversity of early humans, the term "Pre-Socratic", the first philosopher Thales, the meanest philosopher Heraclitus and Democritus, the godfather of the theory of atomism.

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14 Listeners

Episode #002 ... Presocratic Philosophy - Italian

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06/15/13 • 36 min

Today we talk about why philosophy is taken for granted, the crazed cult leader of ancient Greek philosophy, Pythagoras, the annoying dark cloud of deductive reasoning, Parmenides and the super hero Empedocles.

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11 Listeners

Episode #004 ... Plato

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07/01/13 • 45 min

In this week's episode, we learn about Plato's "Symposium", which you might think of as philosophy's version of fan fiction. We also learn about Plato's "Theory of Forms" and ask ourselves what makes a tree, well, a tree. This leads to discussion of Plato's famous "Allegory of the Cave" and calls into question whether or not everything we see is merely a shadow of its true self. Finally, we learn about Plato's views on society and government and why he thought democracy was one of the worst forms of government, second only to tyranny.

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6 Listeners

Episode #169 ... Bruno Latour - We Have Never Been Modern

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08/20/22 • 28 min

Today we cover thought provoking pieces of an early work by a great philosopher named Bruno Latour. Hope you love it.

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Episode #056 ... Kant pt. 1 - An Introduction to the Introduction

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04/22/15 • 25 min

On this episode of the podcast, we begin our discussion of Immanuel Kant. We first examine the historical context Kant was born into and consider the challenges philosophy was faced with, thanks to David Hume. We also discuss the change in the way humans were beginning to look at the universe during Kant’s time. Finally, we hear what Kant has to say about whether or not we can know anything beyond “I think, therefore I am.” All this and more on the latest episode of Philosophize This!

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5 Listeners

Episode #145 ... Bergson on Laughter pt. 1 - History

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09/19/20 • 23 min

Today we begin our discussion on the work of Bergson.

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Episode #003 ... Socrates and the Sophists

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06/23/13 • 39 min

This week we talk about the prosperity of athens and how it led to the rise and ideas of a group of philosopher teachers called the Sophists, we tied up some loose ends and helped put all that we've learned in the last two episodes into context with a graph of the presocratics, and we ended by talking about a man named Socrates.

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