The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Ep. 298: Marsilio Ficino on Love (Part One) Jul 25, 2022

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On Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love (1475), with guest Peter Adamson. What is the role of love in the universe? Ficino tries to combine Plato's theory of love as reproduction in the presence of beauty with an unorthodox take on Christian theology.

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PREMIUM-Ep. 297: Heidegger on the Human Condition (Part Three) Jul 23, 2022

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Concluding our close reading of Being and Time, on ch. 3, sec. 15 and 16 on the world as "ready to hand" or equipment.

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Ep. 297: Heidegger on the Human Condition (Part Two) Jul 18, 2022

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We continue on Being and Time, now in ch. 2 on what "the world" is in our Being-in-the-World and so what it is for us to encounter objects and how this is different than, e.g. the interaction of two physical objects.

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Ep. 297: Heidegger on the Human Condition (Part One) Jul 11, 2022

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We continue on Being and Time (1927), now into ch. 1 (sec. 9) on Existenz and how our way of Being is different than that of the objects of science, and what this means for authenticity and choice.

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Ep. 296: Heidegger Questions Being (Part Two) Jul 04, 2022

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Continuing with our close reading of Being and Time, we talk about why time is the focus of Heidegger's analysis of the human condition, what are phenomena, and so what his phenomenological method looks like and why it must investigate us in our "average everydayness."

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Ep. 296: Heidegger's Questions Being (Part One) Jun 27, 2022

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Continuing from our overview in ep. 32, we do a close reading on selections from the introduction of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time to consider Heidegger's Being in relation to Aristotle's Categories, what questioning means, and some of Heidegger's basic terms.

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PREMIUM-Ep. 295: Kant on Preventing War (Part Three) Jun 18, 2022

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Concluding on Kant's "Perpetual Peace," plus Jurgen Habermas' "Kant's Idea of Perpetual Peace, with the Benefit of Two Hundred Years' Hindsight."

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Ep. 295: Kant on Preventing War (Part Two) Jun 13, 2022

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Continuing on Immanuel Kant's essay "Perpetual Peace," we go further into how Kant's politics relate to his ethics and consider his actual policy proposals: each state must be a republic, they should join in a federation, and we all owe each other hospitality as a cosmopolitan right.

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Ep. 295: Kant on Preventing War (Part One) Jun 06, 2022

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On Immanuel Kant's essay "Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch" (1795).

Do nations have the "right" to go to war? What principles ground just international relations, and are there structures and agreements that we can embrace to prevent prevent future wars?

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