Twitter - https://twitter.com/CritoGlauconThis we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Wha

Artificial Intelligence: Part 1, The Basics and Future of AI

Mar 28th, 2023 59m 11s

Twitter - https://twitter.com/CritoGlauconMan is condemned to be free because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It's up to you to give life a meaning - Jean-Paul SartreIn our first of two episodes on Artifi

Marcus Aurelius: His Life and Meditations

Mar 20th, 2023 59m 38s

Twitter - https://twitter.com/CritoGlauconThe hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality - Dante Alighieri In our forth episode on the Stoics, we enter into the world of Marcus Aurel

Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Part 2, On the Shortness of Life

Mar 6th, 2023 1h 23m

Twitter - https://twitter.com/CritoGlauconAh, fill the cup: What boots it to repeat how time is slipping underneath our feet: Unborn tomorrow and dead yesterday, why fret about them if today be sweet - Omar KhayyamIn this third of our four ep

Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Part 1, The Life of Seneca and Letters from a Stoic

Feb 9th, 2023 1h 14m

Twitter - https://twitter.com/CritoGlauconRailing against the past will not heal us. History has happened, it's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love, instead of destroying what we don't - Arundh

Introduction to Stoicism: Zeno, Chrysippus, and Epictetus' Enchiridion

Jan 30th, 2023 47m 36s

Twitter - https://twitter.com/CritoGlauconHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world - Anne FrankWe venture into the world of Stoicism in this first episode of four in a mini-Stoicism series

Baruch de Spinoza Part Four: Ethics Part II, The Mind, Emotions, and Ethics

Oct 3rd, 2022 1h 1m

Twitter - https://twitter.com/CritoGlauconIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong - VoltaireThe fourth episode of our four-part series on Baruch de Spinoza picks up where we left off with the last

Baruch de Spinoza Part Three: Ethics Part I, God, Nature, and Substance

Sep 6th, 2022 1h

Twitter - https://twitter.com/CritoGlauconIt is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after our own, but the great man is he, who in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the indepen

Baruch de Spinoza Part Two: The Emendation of the Intellect

Aug 16th, 2022 1h 3m

Twitter - https://twitter.com/CritoGlauconThere is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self - Ernest HemingwayThe second episode of our four-part series on Baruch de Spinoza

Baruch de Spinoza Part One: His Life and Philosophy

Jul 22nd, 2022 41m 46s

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good - Carl SaganWe begin the first episode of a four-part series on Baruch de Spinoza, a Du

The I-Ching Part Two: Hexagrams and Simulation Theory

May 2nd, 2022 1h 5m

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all - G. K. ChestertonIn this episode we continue our discussion of Chinese philosophy, and specifically the I-Ching as our s

The I-Ching Part One: Fu Xi, Nü Wa, and Ancient Cosmological Theories of the Universe

Apr 11th, 2022 47m 37s

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has - Margaret MeadIn this episode we continue our discussion of Chinese philosophy and look at the I-Ching through a

Dao De Jing: Lao Zi and the Way of the Dao

Mar 14th, 2022 50m 55s

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else – Arthur SchopenhauerIn this episode we discuss Lao Zi, an ancient Chinese philosopher, and the Dao De Jing, a combined literary work of 5,000 char

The Phaedo: Socrates In His Final Moments

Feb 23rd, 2022 54m 24s

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul, and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent or of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas. You will get better results if you just watch him laugh

The Symposium Part Two: Agathon, Socrates, and Alcibiades

Jan 16th, 2022 1h

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth - Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)In this episode we continue our discussion as the sec

The Symposium Part One: Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, and Aristophanes

Dec 15th, 2021 52m 22s

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck - Immanuel KantIn this episode we begin discussing the first part, in a two part series, Plato's Symposium. The Symposium consists of a gathering of

Plato's Republic: Book 10, The Myth of Er and Buddhist Reincarnation

Nov 1st, 2021 49m 48s

Everything has been figured out, except how to live - Jean-Paul SartreIn this episode we revisit the Republic by Plato, specifically book 10 and discuss the Myth of Er. This myth is posed by Plato as a way to describe a possibility for the aft

The Socratic Dialogue of Meno

Oct 17th, 2021 43m 40s

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries - Rene DescartesThis episode is a continuation of our discussion of Socrates and centers around the Socratic dialogue of Meno. The question posed by Meno

The Trial and Death of Socrates: The Crito

Sep 16th, 2021 28m 55s

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence - AristotleIn this episode we continue our discussion the trial and death of Socrates. We pick up from the Apology of Socrates and discuss the Crito. Cr

The Trial and Death of Socrates: The Apology

Sep 8th, 2021 52m 54s

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality - Immanuel KantIn this episode we begin discussing the trial and death of Socrates. It begins with the Euthyphro, which we have previ

Voltaire, Candide, and Critiques of Leibniz's Best of All Possible Worlds

Jun 21st, 2021 33m 23s

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity. - Baruch SpinozaIn this episode we speak about Voltaire and specifically his satirical literary work "Candide," as a response to our previous episode on Le

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: His Life, Works, and The Best of All Possible Worlds

Jun 1st, 2021 32m 23s

This is the best of all possible worlds. - Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizIn this episode, we introduce Leibniz. We begin speaking of his many achievements and contributions to the world, and also give some background to the other rationalists with

Objections to St. Anselm and Plantinga's Ontological Argument from Gaunilo, Immanuel Kant, and Thomas Aquinas

May 17th, 2021 28m 25s

...no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact which it endeavors to establish. David HumeIn this episode, we consider objections and cri

St. Anselm and Plantinga: The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God

Apr 26th, 2021 27m 24s

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time - VoltaireIn this episode, we look at St. Anselm's ontological argument for the existence of God put forth in 1077. The versi

Descartes's Fourth Meditation: Truth, Falsity, and Dualism

Apr 12th, 2021 34m 36s

Be a philosopher, but amidst all your philosophy, be still, a man - David HumeIn this fourth episode of our Descartes series, we closely examine the ideas of truth and falsity, as proposed by Descartes. We also consider the compelling notion o