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Fiction Beast

What makes us human? We tell stories. I believe great works of literature tell the emotional tale of human existence as we try to make sense of our existence and the world we live in, thus I consider fiction a distilled form of truth, coming from the depth of our subconscious mind.

Episodes

In this episode, the speaker discusses the psychological discomforts of modernity, despite its physical comforts, and presents six philosophical solutions from Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Camus, and Sartre to counter nihilism and the absence of God. The philosophers' solutions range from embracing...

Ayn Rand's Genius Philosophy: How Tough Love Can Empower You

19 Mar 2023

54m

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This podcast episode delves into the life, works, and philosophical ideas of Ayn Rand, exploring her biography from her Russian origins to her success in America, and examining her major novels, "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged." It analyzes Rand's objectivism, focusing on individualism, rationality, and capitali...

Life's meaning is found in nature - Hermann Hesse's Genius Philosophy

19 Feb 2023

42m

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This podcast episode delves into the life and works of German-Swiss novelist Hermann Hesse, comparing him briefly to Mikhail Lermontov before focusing on Hesse's background, including his birth in 1877, his dual citizenship in the Russian and German Empires, and his family's connections to Eastern Europe and India. It ...

Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness Summarized

18 Jan 2023

15m

Carl Jung's Genius Philosophy

11 Jan 2023

50m

JP Sartre's Nausea (Summary and Analysis)

04 Jan 2023

15m

This is Why Chekhov was a Genius

28 Dec 2022

32m

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This podcast episode delves into the life and work of Anton Chekhov, highlighting his unique position in Russian literature as an artist of the mundane, contrasting him with contemporaries like Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. It covers Chekhov's early life, his medical career, his development of the "Chekhov's gun" storytellin...