👨🏻🏫 WHO IS "THE PRECEPTOR"?
With a master's degree in philosophy, Charles Robin spent over a decade as a private tutor. In 2024, he launched the channel "The Preceptor" to share his passion for philosophy.
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👨🏻🏫 WHO IS "THE PRECEPTOR"?
With a master's degree in philosophy, Charles Robin spent over a decade as a private tutor. In 2024, he launched the channel "The Preceptor" to share his passion for philosophy.
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📏 Most of us know Machiavelli through the adjective he left behind: Machiavellian. But does his philosophy really promote evil and immorality?
Let’s find out in this episode.
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📏 Modern Western societies are often described as societies of entertainment. The old Roman saying "Bread and circuses" has never felt more relevant.
But is our need for distraction rooted in something deeper—something tied to the very essence of human nature?
Let's find out in this episode.
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Writer and philosopher Albert Camus set out to uncover the true nature of the human condition.
For him, to be human is to stand face-to-face with the absurdity of existence. And in that confrontation, we are left with two choices: to surrender through suicide or to revolt and embrace life.
In this episode, we take a closer look at his perspective.
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📏 Jean-Paul Sartre is the founder of atheist existentialism, a philosophical movement that asserts that human beings are fundamentally free—but also that they fail to take responsibility for this freedom, which places an overwhelming burden on them. Some clarifications in this episode.
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📏 A major figure in modern Western philosophy, Descartes is best known for grounding his theory of knowledge in... doubt. It’s through doubt, he tells us, that we arrive at this primary truth: "I think, therefore I am."
Let’s take a closer look at this idea and the method behind it.
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📏 Plato’s philosophy is built on the distinction between the sensory world and the intelligible world. For him, truth doesn’t belong to the sensory world—the world of appearances, movement, and instability. But does that mean truth is beyond our reach? Find out in this episode.
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📏 Nietzsche is undoubtedly one of the most unconventional philosophers in the way he approaches life and thought. For him, the worth of an action or an idea depends directly on the vitality that drives it. Let’s take a closer look at this unique thinker and his philosophy of power.
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📏 Despised by his contemporaries, Arthur Schopenhauer offered us a vision of human nature both profound and haunting. To him, humanity is nothing more than an instrument of the world’s will, endlessly striving to perpetuate itself through time. Pessimistic, you say? Let’s delve into that…
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📏 Stoicism is a philosophical school of thought from Ancient Greece that advocates detachment from our passions. For the Stoics, understanding the order of the world enables us to free ourselves from the grip of our emotions and attain inner peace.
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