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The Wisdom Of

Kristian Urstad and Stephen Webb

349 episodes

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Edmund Burke is the founder of cultural and political conservatism. Dostoevsky, Aristophanes and T.S. Eliot also share in a similar spirit. They all warn against dismissing the past! .... Check out my new book! It's called: The Last Human: How Technology is Changing What it Means to be Human https://www.amazon.com/Last-Human-Technology-Changing-Means/dp/1069510831/

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Edmund Burke is the founder of cultural and political conservatism. Dostoevsky, Aristophanes and T.S. Eliot also share in a similar spirit. They all warn against dismissing the past! .... Check out my new book! It's called: The Last Human: How Technology is Changing What it Means to be Human https://www.amazon.com/Last-Human-Technology-Changing-Means/dp/1069510831/

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Episodes (20/349)

The Wisdom Of

La Mettrie's Man the Machine - From Cartesian Dualism to Joyful Materialism!

This French philosopher argues that there is no immaterial soul, and that this doesn't strip life of its value! .... Check out my new book! It's called: The Last Human: How Technology is Changing What it Means to be Human https://www.amazon.com/Last-Human-Technology-Changing-Means/dp/1069510831/

3 days ago

13 minutes

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Edmund Burke - Inherited Wisdom and the Perils of Starting Anew!

Edmund Burke is the founder of cultural and political conservatism. Dostoevsky, Aristophanes and T.S. Eliot also share in a similar spirit. They all warn against dismissing the past! .... Check out my new book! It's called: The Last Human: How Technology is Changing What it Means to be Human https://www.amazon.com/Last-Human-Technology-Changing-Means/dp/1069510831/

1 week ago

13 minutes

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Rollo May - How Art Overcomes Nihilism!

For the psychologist Rollo May, art is no dispensable luxury, it's an essential response to nihilism! .... Check out my new book! It's called: The Last Human: How Technology is Changing What it Means to be Human https://www.amazon.com/Last-Human-Technology-Changing-Means/dp/1069510831/

1 week ago

12 minutes

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A reminder from Mircea Eliade on the significance of the New Year!

Happy New Year to all across lands and seas! ...... Check out my new book! It's called: The Last Human: How Technology is Changing What it Means to be Human https://www.amazon.com/Last-Human-Technology-Changing-Means/dp/1069510831/

2 weeks ago

6 minutes

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The Poverty of Wealth: Nietzsche on Money and Mediocrity!

Nietzsche criticizes our modern infatuation with money-making, an infatuation that he thinks reveals a deep spiritual impoverishment and an erosion of character...... Check out my new book! It's called: The Last Human: How Technology is Changing What it Means to be Human https://www.amazon.com/Last-Human-Technology-Changing-Means/dp/1069510831/

3 weeks ago

13 minutes

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In the spirit of Christmas - Why the path of self-interest will always fail you

Self-interest is directionless and ultimately, is an enemy of both self-actualization and love. For these things, we need a relation to something outside of our own egos.

1 month ago

18 minutes

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Walter Benjamin - Against the Copy: Holding On to the Real in an Age of Reproduction!

When everything can be reproduced, why do we still crave the original? The psychologist Paul Bloom and the philosopher Walter Benjamin offer up some insight! ... Check out my new book! It's called: The Last Human: How Technology is Changing What it Means to be Human https://www.amazon.com/Last-Human-Technology-Changing-Means/dp/1069510831/

1 month ago

13 minutes

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Barthes, Kierkegaard, Han - What happened to the erotic?

What is eroticism? And does it still exist today? Find out more!

1 month ago

14 minutes

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Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund - Pick a path, pay the price, live the life!

Choosing one path in life means letting go of another! And that's okay!

1 month ago

13 minutes

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Bertrand Russell and Byung-Chul Han: Self-absorption is the source of unhappiness!

The philosophers Russell and Han come from different historical contexts, but they both agree on one thing: if you want to be happy stop being pre-occupied with yourself!

1 month ago

12 minutes

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Great philosophers on how to stay young as we get older!

Aging doesn't have to involve loss of possibilities and heaviness. Just ask Nietzsche, the Taoists, Hannah Arendt and Camus!

1 month ago

10 minutes

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Why Samuel Beckett is so funny!

Beckett is bleak but he's also hilarious. I try to explore why so many of us laugh when we read him!

2 months ago

12 minutes

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Voltaire's "Crush the infamous thing" and our age of tragic regression

Voltaire called for enlightenment and progress against the dogmas and powers of his day. Our world today needs more Voltaires.

2 months ago

9 minutes

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Dostoevsky, Ricoeur, Kierkegaard - The future needs the past!

There is no future without a past. That's because the past is the ground of transformation!

2 months ago

12 minutes

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Orwell's 1984 - Fake News and the destruction of language

Orwell's 1984 has seen a massive surge in sales in the last 8 years. That's no surprise.

2 months ago

10 minutes

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Feuerbach and Marx - We created God in our own image!

Man makes religion, religion does not make man, says the German philosopher Feuerbach. Karl Marx agrees. But why do we do this, and should we? Find out more!

2 months ago

13 minutes

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Aristotle - Why Competency is essential for Happiness!

You want lasting joy and fulfillment in your life? Then strive for excellence and competency! Or so argues Aristotle.

2 months ago

12 minutes

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Consciousness and the Universe - From Matter to Meaning!

What is the universe without human consciousness? Strangely, not much! Or so I argue!

2 months ago

13 minutes

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Byung-Chul Han and Fromm - Clean shiny machines and our Necrophilia!

We prefer machines to people and mechanical precision to messy human qualities. What is this but our love of death over life! Or so argue Byung-Chul Han and Erich Fromm!

2 months ago

9 minutes

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Kant vs. Aristotle - Duty vs. Character!

Aristotle and Kant argue for two very different ethical outlooks. I definitely prefer one to the other!

3 months ago

13 minutes