The Partially Examined Life

A philosophy podcast by @MarkLinsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, @DylanPEL who were set on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.

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Plato calls the sophist a magician. One translation says "enchanter." The Partially Examined Life on why that word is better — and why nobody working children's birthday parties uses it.

The Partially Examined Life · Episode 143: Plato’s “Sophist” on Lies, Categorization, and…

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Susanne Langer thought the first words weren't names for things — they were interjections shouted during a ritual. Here is that theory of the origin of language, reconstructed entirely out of the word "booyah."

The Partially Examined Life · Ep. 290: Susanne Langer on Our…

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Aristotle noticed something strange 2,300 years ago: the corpse that repels you in life gives you pleasure as a picture. "That's a mind blowing insight." On the Poetics.

The Partially Examined Life · Ep. 243: Aristotle’s “Poetics” on Art and Tragedy

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The Wizard of Oz quietly contains one of the great thought experiments in philosophy of mind. The Tin Woodman chopped himself to pieces one limb at a time — and stayed himself.

The Partially Examined Life · Ep. 222: Debating Functionalism (Block, Chalmers)

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New episode — Ep. 402: Plato Talks Homer: Hippias Minor and Ion (Part Two)

Socrates asks which wrestler is better: the one who takes a fall on purpose, or by accident? Depends which kind of wrestling.

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You can picture a bronze statue sprouting wings and flying off — so it's logically possible, right? Brian Ellis says no: your imagination only reaches as far as your eyes do.

The Partially Examined Life · Ep. 340: Brian Ellis on the Implications of Essentialism (Part One)

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"The mind commands the hand to move, and it moves. The mind commands itself to will — and it refuses." Augustine, 1600 years ago, on why you're still not on that diet.

The Partially Examined Life · Episode 121: Augustine on Being Good

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Habermas wanted peace reframed as a process rather than an end state. One reader of Kant's Perpetual Peace has thoughts about how that's going.

The Partially Examined Life · Ep. 295: Kant on Preventing War (Part Three)

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"The evening holds the bones of day." Bruce Cockburn on why he wrote that, and why he has never been able to think of death as a stopping point.

Nakedly Examined Music · Bruce Cockburn

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Does a critic need to know about fishing to judge Homer? Does a TV writer need to know how courts work?

The Partially Examined Life · Ep. 402: Plato Talks Homer: Hippias Minor and Ion (Part Two)

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Would you still decorate your hut on a desert island? Would you still make jokes with nobody there? On Schiller, ornament, and whether beauty is something we do for each other.

The Partially Examined Life · Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part Three)

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Either you agree with me or you're... well. Three philosophers on Socrates' debating style.

The Partially Examined Life · Ep. 402: Plato Talks Homer: Hippias Minor and Ion (Part Two)

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My psychoanalytic interpretation of You Can See Everything.
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Why does Plato argue for something absurd? To prove its opposite.

The Partially Examined Life · Ep. 402: Plato Talks Homer: Hippias Minor and Ion (Part Two)

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The $500M horror hit of the year. His 10-year-old watched it and shrugged. Is Obsession even a horror movie?

Pretty Much Pop · Obsession

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Thanks to Bruce Cockburn (@CockburnQuotes) for coming on #NakedlyExaminedMusic to talk about his new and old tunes: https://t.co/lbcsAeYTNM