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The Wisdom Of
Kristian Urstad and Stephen Webb
337 episodes
1 day ago
There is no future without a past. That's because the past is the ground of transformation!
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There is no future without a past. That's because the past is the ground of transformation!
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Philosophy
Arts,
Religion & Spirituality,
Society & Culture,
Spirituality,
Books
Episodes (20/337)
The Wisdom Of
Dostoevsky, Ricoeur, Kierkegaard - The future needs the past!
There is no future without a past. That's because the past is the ground of transformation!
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1 day ago
12 minutes

The Wisdom Of
Orwell's 1984 - Fake News and the destruction of language
Orwell's 1984 has seen a massive surge in sales in the last 8 years. That's no surprise.
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1 week ago
10 minutes

The Wisdom Of
Feuerbach and Marx - We created God in our own image!
Man makes religion, religion does not make man, says the German philosopher Feuerbach. Karl Marx agrees. But why do we do this, and should we? Find out more!
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1 week ago
13 minutes

The Wisdom Of
Aristotle - Why Competency is essential for Happiness!
You want lasting joy and fulfillment in your life? Then strive for excellence and competency! Or so argues Aristotle.
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1 week ago
12 minutes

The Wisdom Of
Consciousness and the Universe - From Matter to Meaning!
What is the universe without human consciousness? Strangely, not much! Or so I argue!
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2 weeks ago
13 minutes

The Wisdom Of
Byung-Chul Han and Fromm - Clean shiny machines and our Necrophilia!
We prefer machines to people and mechanical precision to messy human qualities. What is this but our love of death over life! Or so argue Byung-Chul Han and Erich Fromm!
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2 weeks ago
9 minutes

The Wisdom Of
Kant vs. Aristotle - Duty vs. Character!
Aristotle and Kant argue for two very different ethical outlooks. I definitely prefer one to the other!
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3 weeks ago
13 minutes

The Wisdom Of
The rise and the danger of binary thinking
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.
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3 weeks ago
10 minutes

The Wisdom Of
Montaigne's self-fashioning vs. the curated facade of today's self!
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?
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4 weeks ago
12 minutes

The Wisdom Of
Optimize this! - The cost of constant improvement
Beneath today's trend of optimizing everything lies some deep philosophical and existential problems.
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1 month ago
9 minutes

The Wisdom Of
Three famous philosophers who were practically unknown in their own time!
Ahead of their age, awaiting ours: Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche!
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1 month ago
15 minutes

The Wisdom Of
The death of expertise is the demise of civilization!
Our growing distrust of expertise and of universities is terminally stupid. We will all pay the price.
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1 month ago
13 minutes

The Wisdom Of
David Abram's The Spell of the Sensuous - Living in attunement with the earth!
Abstract time and space sever our ties to place, rhythm, and responsibility! Or so argues the philosopher and ecologist, David Abram!
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1 month ago
13 minutes

The Wisdom Of
When Religion becomes Shallow
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.
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1 month ago
13 minutes

The Wisdom Of
Julian Jaynes - The Origin of Consciousness and the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, and AI!
The American psychologist argued that before modern consciousness, we heard and obeyed the voices of the gods. With AI, is it any different today?
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1 month ago
14 minutes

The Wisdom Of
A human history of intelligence without kindness - A cautionary analogy for the advent of AI
We've set a bleak precedent for what's to come.
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1 month ago
10 minutes

The Wisdom Of
Cicero and Simone de Beauvoir on Old Age - The Self, the Other and growing old authentically!
Cicero and Simone de Beauvoir offer us two very different visions of growing old and the philosophy of aging!
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1 month ago
21 minutes

The Wisdom Of
Eden, Adam and Eve: Thank God for the Fall! - Why paradise is deeply problematic!
Living an Edenic existence fails to give us what we truly need and want: namely, responsibility, love and meaning!
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2 months ago
13 minutes

The Wisdom Of
Byung-Chul Han - The Transparency Society
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!
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2 months ago
11 minutes

The Wisdom Of
To our Children
We walk in the shadows we cast. Let's be the architects of a better future.
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2 months ago
7 minutes

The Wisdom Of
There is no future without a past. That's because the past is the ground of transformation!