Lesson 1: Existentialism

12/30/22 • 25 min

In our first episode, we introduce existentialism. We argue who the 'it girl' of existentialism is: is it Sartre, his boo Beauvoir, Kierkegaard or Nietzsche? Lea argues for her guy Kierkegaard (with a very interesting gossip story about his boo Regine), while Estelle argues for her guy Nietzshe with a saddening story about him and a horse. We encompass Kierkegaard's ideas on faith and Nietzsche's beliefs about guilt. Enjoy!

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Lesson 2: The Socratic Philosophers

We are back! Having set ourselves the challenge to summarise the three famous Socratic philosophers in twenty minutes, we talk about the key ideas of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. We begin with 'The School of Athens' painting, explaining the origins of the name of our show. We touch on Socrates' love for questioning and how that impacted the abrupt end of his life, Plato's world of forms and his ideal state, as well as Aristotle's influence on Aquinas (e.g. the Prime Mover). We breezed past each topic so we will go into detail with some in the future!

The philosophy resources recommendations we mentioned:

'Think' by Simon Blackburn

Oxford: Very Short Introductions

BBC: 'In Our Time' podcast

'Philosophy Bites' podcast

Philosophy Now articles

Regarding Socrates' execution: https://philosophynow.org/issues/19/Socrates_Revisited_The_Jurors_Speak

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