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Stephen West · Philosophy

Philosophize This!

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.

Episodes

Episode #148 ... On Media pt. 1 - Manufacturing Consent

Episode #147 ... Being and Becoming

Episode #146 ... Bergson on Laughter pt. 2 - Vitalism

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

Episode #144 ... Max Weber - Iron Cage

Episode #143 ... Jürgen Habermas pt. 1 - The Public Sphere

Episode #142 ... Richard Rorty

Episode #141 ... Isaiah Berlin pt. 2 - Pluralism and Culture

Episode #140 ... Isaiah Berlin pt. 1 - Pluralism

Episode #139 ... Friedrich Von Hayek - The Road to Serfdom

Episode #138 ... Robert Nozick - The Minimal State

Episode #137 ... John Rawls - A Theory of Justice

Episode #136 ... Hannah Arendt - The Banality of Evil

Episode 135 ... Leo Strauss - Ancients vs. Moderns

This podcast episode explores Leo Strauss's critique of modern rationality and its implications for political philosophy. The speaker begins by addressing criticisms of rationality, then introduces Strauss's perspective, contrasting the "ancients" (who sought ideal forms and values) with the "moderns" (focused on the ...

Episode #134 ... Consequences of Reason

Episode #133 ... Carl Schmitt on Liberalism pt. 2

Episode #132 ... Carl Schmitt on Liberalism pt. 1

Episode #131 ... Gramsci - Cultural Hegemony

Episode #130 ... Dewey and Lippman on Democracy

Episode #129 ... Gilles Deleuze pt. 5 - Difference

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