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  • Review: Heidegger by Michael Inwood

    Review: Heidegger by Michael Inwood
    2025/05/14
    In this episode I engage in an extra-long two-hour examination of the basic philosophy of Martin Heidegger, as described in Michael Inwood's study, Heidegger. Inwood focuses primarily on Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time. In this episode I pay particular attention to Heidegger's discussion of the state of being he calls 'ready-to-hand,' as well as authenticity and being-toward-death.
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    1 時間 58 分
  • Review: Be Like the Fox by Erica Benner

    Review: Be Like the Fox by Erica Benner
    2025/05/10
    In this episode I revisit Niccolo Machiavelli through the lens of Erica Benner's biography of the Renaissance Italian thinker, Be Like the Fox. I examine Machiavelli's dedication to the ideals of the Florentine Republic and his opposition to leaders who come to rule by the blessings of Fortune.
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    59 分
  • Review: History of Political Philosophy (Machiavelli) edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey

    Review: History of Political Philosophy (Machiavelli) edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey
    2025/04/11
    In this episode I return to Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey's History of Political Philosophy, to look at Strauss' own examination of Machiavelli. I focus on Machiavelli's strategic deployment of virtue and vice, and his comparison of Christianity and Paganism.
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    1 時間 5 分
  • Review: The Oldest Dead White European Males by Bernard Knox

    Review: The Oldest Dead White European Males by Bernard Knox
    2025/03/29
    In this episode I look again at the Sophists with a focus on their dedication to rhetoric, as described by classicist Bernard Knox in his collection of essays, The Oldest Dead White European Males.
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    45 分
  • Review: Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne

    Review: Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne
    2025/03/29
    In this episode I examine sexual selection and basic mating strategies, plus a look at the possibility of escaping the our evolutionarily acquired behaviors as described in Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True.
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    1 時間 15 分
  • Review: The Philosophy of Aristotle by D. J. Allan

    Review: The Philosophy of Aristotle by D. J. Allan
    2025/03/16
    In this episode I review the basic elements of Aristotle's philosophy, discussing his conception of nature, the four causes, and the four elements. I also continue the discussion from the previous two episodes regarding eudaimonia, phronesis, ethics, and politics.
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    1 時間 18 分
  • Review: History of Political Philosophy (Aristotle) edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey

    Review: History of Political Philosophy (Aristotle) edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey
    2025/03/07
    In this episode I review Aristotle's political and ethical premises with a focus on eudaimonia, arete, and the mixed regime, as described by Carnes Lord in Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey's essay collection, History of Political Philosophy.
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    1 時間 5 分
  • Review: Aristotle's Way by Edith Hall

    Review: Aristotle's Way by Edith Hall
    2025/03/01
    In this episode I examine various forms of happiness, the difference between happiness and eudaimonia, and the basics of Aristotelian virtue ethics as described by Edith Hall in Aristotle's Way.
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    1 時間 2 分