The School of Athens

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Estelle Qin and Lea Hansen

7 episodes

3 months ago

A philosophy podcast delivered by young (and fun!) philosophers to young (and equally fun!) philosophers. We attempt to break down the traditional image of philosophers as two young girls, who share their own insights, sometimes disagreeing and sometimes broadening each other's understanding.

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Philosophy

Education,

Society & Culture

Episodes (7/7)

The School of Athens

Lesson 6: The Ontological Argument and Pascal's Wager

In today's lesson, we critically talk about Anselm's ontological argument and Pascal's Wager. We explore Gaunilo's 'Lost Island' as a refute to Anselm. Our verdict is that both Anselm and Pascal have not given convincing enough arguments. Listen to the episode to find out why!

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2 years ago

16 minutes 4 seconds

The School of Athens

Lesson 5: Fatalism

Hi! Following our last episode about determinism, we are talking about fatalism in this one! And we mean logical fatalism, which is illustrated by Aristotle's sea battle argument. We explain what this argument is and its main counters. We also try to show the difference between determinism and fatalism. Hope you enjoy this lesson and we look forward to next time!

Resources mentioned:

Riddles of Existence by Earl Brink Conee

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2 years ago

15 minutes 39 seconds

The School of Athens

Lesson 4: Determinism and Free Will

This week, we question the extent of our free will, looking at the views of hard determinists, libertarians, and compatibilists. We have some interesting examples and scenarios to illustrate these views, including My Little Pony... my little pony... aaahhh... Stay tuned to the end to hear about our own takes on whether we are just the sum of our causes - how we were brought up and our genes.

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2 years ago

21 minutes 50 seconds

The School of Athens

Lesson 3: Mind and Body

Continuing from Plato's views on the mind and body from last episode, this week, we discuss dualism... and a bit of everything else. We expand on Plato a bit with his charioteer analogy and on Descartes' cogito ergo sum, sharing some of our own views on the eternity of the soul too. We also talk about Frank Jackson's thought experiment, Mary's Room, and its counter arguments, before we go off on how much we love (Estelle) or hate (Lea) thought experiments. Lea shares a thought experiment about a lobster, but NOTE: the actual thought experiment is Locke's prince and cobbler (NOT lobster), we're sorry for that confusion but we hope you enjoy our more entertaining version!

Resources mentioned:

Phaedrus by Plato

Meditations on First Philosophy by Descartes

Persons and Personal Identity by Amy Kind

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2 years ago

24 minutes 58 seconds

The School of Athens

Lesson 2: The Socratic Philosophers

We are back! Having set ourselves the challenge to summarise the three famous Socratic philosophers in twenty minutes, we talk about the key ideas of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. We begin with 'The School of Athens' painting, explaining the origins of the name of our show. We touch on Socrates' love for questioning and how that impacted the abrupt end of his life, Plato's world of forms and his ideal state, as well as Aristotle's influence on Aquinas (e.g. the Prime Mover). We breezed past each topic so we will go into detail with some in the future!

The philosophy resources recommendations we mentioned:

'Think' by Simon Blackburn

Oxford: Very Short Introductions

BBC: 'In Our Time' podcast

'Philosophy Bites' podcast

Philosophy Now articles

Regarding Socrates' execution: https://philosophynow.org/issues/19/Socrates_Revisited_The_Jurors_Speak

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2 years ago

23 minutes 37 seconds

The School of Athens

Lesson 1: Existentialism

In our first episode, we introduce existentialism. We argue who the 'it girl' of existentialism is: is it Sartre, his boo Beauvoir, Kierkegaard or Nietzsche? Lea argues for her guy Kierkegaard (with a very interesting gossip story about his boo Regine), while Estelle argues for her guy Nietzshe with a saddening story about him and a horse. We encompass Kierkegaard's ideas on faith and Nietzsche's beliefs about guilt. Enjoy!

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2 years ago

25 minutes 9 seconds

The School of Athens

Welcome to The School of Athens!

Introducing the teachers Lea & Estelle and their fun and quirky philosophy podcast 'The School of Athens'!

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2 years ago

6 minutes 28 seconds