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Ten Philosophers' Proposals for Living
Philosophies of life from Socrates to Sartre
Completed · 127 episodes
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Leung Man-tao: Life Has So Many Questions—Why No Philosophy of Life? 0. The Individual Is an Accidental Vessel of Social Values 1. From Socrates to Sartre: Humanity Drifts between Reason and Feeling 2. Idealism: Waking Those Asleep and Those Pretending 3. An Ideal Death: Bodily Life Cannot Compensate for Injury to Justice 4. Euthyphro's Question: Can We Lean on the Gods? 5. The Cave: Down toward the Sensible World, Up toward the Intelligible 6. Loving Justice: Love Is Irrationality Longing for Reason 7. Against Excessive Rhetoric: Artistic Imitation Confuses Reason 8. Dissecting the Soul: The Self Is a Struggle with Itself Bonus | Why Are We Still Unhappy after Understanding the World? 9. Class Inequality and Assigned Roles: Justice and the Four Virtues 10. Is There a Truth to Pursue? Four Questions about Knowledge 11. A Conceptual Map of Ideals: Life Passes, Truth Endures 12. “Realist” Aristotle: Walking and a Rich Love Life 13. Realism: Compromise between Sensation and Ideas 14. The Mean: A Modern Virtue of Judging Each Case 15. Akrasia: Why Can't We Do What We Know Is Right? 16. Pleasure Is Innocent: What Pleasure Should a Short Life Pursue? 17. City and Person: Contemplation First, Politics Second, Pleasure Last 18. On Friendship: Why Do Geniuses Arrive in Clusters? 19. How Do We Manage Life? Power in Household Activity 20. Building a Polis: How Do We Imagine Our City and Home? 21. What Is a Good Organization? How to Be Managed Comfortably 22. The Meaning of Tragedy: Questioning Humanity through Imitated Action 23. From Rome to America, Aristotle Moves from Ideal to Reality 24. Modern Melancholy: Nihilism Obsessed with Deconstructing Grand Narratives 25. Pyrrhonian Doubt: Suspend Judgment and Disagreement Becomes Boring 25. Pyrrhonian Doubt (Shanghainese Edition) | Bonus 26. Classical Cynicism: Free Wanderers Reject the World 27. Modern Cynicism: Clever Dogs Pretend Morality and Remain Indifferent 28. Epicurus Unafraid of Death: The Soul Decays and Pleasure Begins the Good 29. Epicurean Freedom: Can We Do Anything That Harms No One? 30. Gentle Stoicism: A Calming Pill Made of Negative Imagination 31. Stoic Detachment: Reason's Fortress Defends against Brave Impulse Bonus | Soul: Seeking Meaning Like a Small Fish Asking about the Sea 32. Seneca's Toolbox: How Do We Restrain Anger? 33. Marcus Aurelius: One City, God as Cosmos, Law Following Nature 34. Naive Stoicism: Grace in Setback and an All-Embracing Universalism Bonus | Surrogacy as Metaphor: Must Modern Thought Always Return to Money? 35. Mysterious Plotinus: Ideas Transcend Daily Life, Which Is Not Worth Concern 36. Augustine the Christian: Feeling the Soul outside Time Bonus | My Best Friend's Story: What Is the Relation between Happiness and Money? 37. Gnosticism: How Do We Live in an Irrational Counterfeit World? 38. Pierre Hadot: From Ancient to Modern, Philosophy Remains a Way of Life 39. Rational Doubt: Wang Chong, a Nonmainstream “Spiritual Greek” 40. Wang Chong at Ease: Luck Determines Fate and Chance Is the World's Nature 41. Nihilism: How Do We Understand Confusion amid Absurdity and Meaninglessness? 42. Machiavellianism: Morality May Matter Less before Secular Utility 43. An Ethics of Honor: Achieving Goals Requires Cruelty and Disguise Bonus | Nomadland: Within a Small Space, the Perceived World Is the World 44. Truth as Unity of Knowledge and Action: Success Matters More Than Lying 45. Intellectual Virtue: Do Not Abandon the Fight; Fight Tenaciously Bonus | Persian Lessons: Noble Lies Fight Greater Lies 46. The Temper of the Masses: Easily Deceived, Wanting Deception, Deceiving Themselves 47. Fate and Freedom: Historical Necessity under Virtue Ethics 48. Noble Irony and Neutral Means: Another Reading of The Prince 49. Republicanism: A Flexible Union of Rule by People and Rule of Law 50. What Is Your Machiavellian Index? Intelligence and Personality 51. Why Is Machiavellianism Condemned? Two Philosophical Upgrades 52. Critique of Pure Reason: The Enlightenment's Great Synthesizer Was a Homebody 53. Kant's Enlightenment: Transcendental Light Illuminates Ignorance 54. No Causality, Only Logic and Sense Experience: Hume's Radical Skepticism 55. Kant Answers Skepticism: Causality after Experience Is in the Mind 56. Schrödinger's God: An Imagined God for a Virtuous Life 57. Kantian Ethics: Unconditional Good and Four Principles of the Categorical Imperative 58. From the Categorical Imperative: Lies, Theft, and Suicide Bonus | Love, Death & Robots: Quietly Watching Every Giant Walk toward Destruction 59. Teleology Bridges Nature and Freedom: Kant's Philosophical Superglue 60. Kant's Aesthetics: Intellectual Pleasure and Teleological Structure 61. The Sublime Seeks Infinity and Moral Freedom 62. Presuming the Unconditioned: Fate's Purpose and Human Resistance 63. Kant's Politics: “Expensive” Liberalism and Resistance from “Unenlightened Culture” 64. Peace as Freedom's Necessary Meaning: Kant's Perpetual Peace Bonus | The Burning River: He Reached for Two Flags but Could Grasp Neither 65. “Pretended” Ideals and Humanism: Where Does Kantian Audacity Lead? 66. Hegel's Ideal and Reality: Great Waves amid Everyday Life 67. Do Not Hide Like an Ostrich: Hegelian Dialectic's Inclusion and Necessity 68. Hegel's Dialectical Game: Yes, No, and What Change Produces Bonus | Being and Change in Chinese and Western Spiritual Civilization 69. Deeper into Hegelian Waters: Substance, Cause, and Interaction 70. The Inescapable Sickle and Chives: Hegel's Master–Slave Dialectic 71. Hegel on Property: Property between “Servitude” and “Equality” 72. Hegel's Family Philosophy: Why Is Marriage the Family's Core? 73. Hegel on Civil Society: Micropolitics That Determines Life and Death 74. Hegel's State: Love Reconciles Struggle 75. Grasping World Spirit through History's Faces 76. Hegel on Art: Life's Resting Place and Romantic Absolute Spirit Bonus | Tracing Her Shadow: Human Bonds Hold You through the Storm 77. Leaving Hegelian Reality: Reason's Usurpation, Arrogance, and Bankruptcy 78. Facing Inexplicable Life: Irrationalism Born for Innocent Flowers 79. Choosing Wrong Is Life's Truth: Kierkegaard's Painful Philosophy 80. Schopenhauer's New Ontology: Life Is a Broken Line, the Cosmos a Lawless Fire 81. Schopenhauer's Cosmic Will: A Continuous Flow, Inside and Outside Each Other 82. Schopenhauer on Art: Climb Philosophy's Ladder to Find the Cosmos in Emotion 83. Schopenhauer's Ethics: An Ascetic Wave in the Sea of Cosmic Will 84. Positive Voluntarism: Nietzsche's Growth and Madness 85. The Birth of Tragedy: Dreams Create Greatness; Madness Destroys Her 86. Nietzsche's Dilemma: God's Death, Will to Power, Eternal Recurrence 87. Irrationalism's End: Nietzsche in Lu Xun's Madness and Schopenhauer in Feng Youlan 88. The Scientific Mind Strikes Back: Positivism Returns to Reality 89. Comte's Positivist Sociology: Organizing Life through “Secular Religion” 90. Bentham's Utilitarianism: Pleasure Can Be Calculated and Interest Maximized 91. Vienna Circle and Early Wittgenstein: Meaning Must Be Verified; Value Cannot Be Said 92. Hume the Traditional Radical: For Happiness, Make Less Trouble 93. Later Wittgenstein: Morality Grounded in Practice and Social Ecology 94. Socialized Darwinism: Moral Customs Express Biological Demands 95. Pre-Qin Philosophy through Science: Is Human Nature Good or Evil? 96. Positivism's Crisis: Reconstruction, Destruction, and Radical Revaluation 97. Phenomenology and Existentialism: A New World through Intuition of Essence 98. Husserl's Epoché: The Only Dependable Reason Is “I Believe” 99. Heidegger against Technology: Life as Given Event, the Individual Revealing Being 100. Being-toward-Death: Does Sympathy Cause Mediocrity while Death Reveals the Self? 101. Heidegger's Thrownness and Fallenness: The Past Shapes the Present through the Future 102. Heidegger's Broken Romance: Nazism Could Not Create a Capital-Free Order 103. Beyond Heidegger: Fear of the Unknown, Smallness, and Powerlessness Predates Death 104. Remaking Phenomenology: Destroy Everything, Then Restore It 105. Sartre's Being and Nothingness: Unfree Action Proves Our Existence 106. Hell Is Other People: Relationships as Mutual Enslavement 107. Beauvoir's Existentialism: One Is Not Born, but Rather Becomes, a Woman 108. Camus: We Are All Sisyphus Rebelling against the Absurd 109. Merleau-Ponty's Carnal Concern: Care for Humans Begins with the Body 110. Phenomenology à la Française: Mutual Recognition of Freedom Is Humanism 111. Every Ending Is a Beginning—May You Face It All with a Smile Bonus | What If You Care Too Much about Others' Opinions? Bonus | How to Live Better in a Pandemic: Cherish Communities of Friendship Bonus | I Hope You Are Well: Defeat the Fear of Unease through Writing