The Wisdom Of
In this podcast we explore great works of philosophy and literature and art, and try to pull out of them what’s most interesting and inspiring! Whether they come from the works of Plato, or Dostoevsky or Picasso, here we explore ideas that move mountains and rock the soul! So, come join us, won’t you? Come worship at the alter of ideas, and come celebrate the dancing of thought. Welcome to the Wisdom Of!
Episodes
We live in an age increasingly dominated by black and white thinking. When we leave no room for the complexity and ambiguity of reality, the outcome is going to be perilous.
The French philosopher Montaigne made the exploration of selfhood the most important thing in his life. How does his project compare to today's version of self-fashioning?
Beneath today's trend of optimizing everything lies some deep philosophical and existential problems.
Ahead of their age, awaiting ours: Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche!
Our growing distrust of expertise and of universities is terminally stupid. We will all pay the price.
Abstract time and space sever our ties to place, rhythm, and responsibility! Or so argues the philosopher and ecologist, David Abram!
When religion becomes shallow it's no longer truly religion. Many philosophers have warned us of this, of religion being reduced to self-serving functions.
The American psychologist argued that before modern consciousness, we heard and obeyed the voices of the gods. With AI, is it any different today?
We've set a bleak precedent for what's to come.
Cicero and Simone de Beauvoir offer us two very different visions of growing old and the philosophy of aging!
Living an Edenic existence fails to give us what we truly need and want: namely, responsibility, love and meaning!
According to Han, we live in a culture of constant self-exposure and exhibition. And, despite what we think, it makes us flat, banal and powerless!
We walk in the shadows we cast. Let's be the architects of a better future.
This is the famous last line in one of Beckett's novels. But it's not just a last line, it's a credo for human existence!
We treat melancholy as a pathology, something to be cured or eradicated. But we've lost sight of it's real value!
Socrates doesn't just undermine his interlocutors, Plato undermines us! Or so argues the contemporary philosopher Alexander Nehamas!
They all gushed over Nero, and they're no different today! It's all very embarrassing and sad.
In our age of digitization, our sense of touch has clearly been demoted. For thinkers like Aristotle and Nietzsche, the cost is enormous!
Woman in the Dunes is a 1964 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. It's about a guy who gets trapped in a sandpit and has to keep shovelling sand to stay alive! It's a repetitive and futile situation! Ring any bells?
The German philosopher Schopenhauer believed that compassion was the true foundation of morality. It worked best when it came to his dogs!
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