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A Journey of Wonder: A Concise History of Western Philosophy
One hundred philosophical adventures with Zhou Lian
Completed · 101 episodes
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0. Sooner or Later, You Will Ask Questions Like Socrates 1. Philosophy’s “Dead Dog” Returns to Life at Certain Moments | The Question of Philosophy 2. Why Did Philosophy Develop Only in Greece During the Axial Age? | The Greek Spirit 3. Set the Gods Aside and Explain Nature Through Nature | Thales 4. One Is Origin, Two Is Indeterminate, Three Is the Whole | Pythagoras 5. Everything Flows; Nothing Remains | Heraclitus 6. An Unchanging Center: Rest Is Nobler Than Motion | Xenophanes and Parmenides 7. “Achilles Cannot Catch the Tortoise”: Argument Over Fact | Zeno’s Paradox 8. Bonus | Logos as Word and Measure: Examining and Distinguishing Change 9. Bonus | Zhou Lian: A History of Western Philosophy in Plain Chinese 10. Humanity Fell by Believing Might Makes Right | Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days 11. Fate Is Justice: No One Controls Events, Even Happiness | Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex 12. Stop Crying; the Gods Have Arranged Everything | Oedipus at Colonus 13. Man Is the Measure of All Things | Sophist Relativism 14. The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living | Socrates’s Philosophy and Life 15. Midwifery of the Soul: Find Your Own Answer | Socrates and Meno 16. Wisdom, Courage, and Serenity in an Age of Departing Gods | Socrates and Aristotle on Moral Error 17. Please Do Not Be Angry Because I Tell the Truth | Socrates’s Defense 18. Living Well and Living Rightly Are the Same | Socrates and Crito 19. I Go to Die, You to Live; Who Is Happier No One Knows | Socrates on the Immortal Soul 20. Treating Unequal People Equally Is Also Unequal | Socrates’s Death and Athenian Democracy I 21. If Good Regimes Inevitably Decay, Democracy Is the Least Bad | Socrates’s Death and Athenian Democracy II 22. Once Innocence Is Lost, Paradise Cannot Be Regained | Plato’s Philosophy and Life 23. Why Aren’t Truth-Telling and Repaying Debts Always Just? | Socrates and Cephalus 24. Is Justice the Interest of the Stronger? | Socrates and Thrasymachus 25. Do Unjust People Live Better Than Just People? | Justice and Happiness I 26. Why Be Moral? | Justice and Happiness II 27. Division of Labor: Each in the Proper Place and Role | Justice in the City, Introduction 28. Can Censorship Help Preserve Justice? | Justice in the City I 29. When Passion and Desire Obey Reason, the Soul Finds Peace | Justice in the City II 30. Do Justice in the Soul and Justice in the City Conflict? | Justice in the City III 31. A Great “Book of Failure”: Having Seen the Sun, We May Fall into Darkness Again | Plato’s Republic 32. Dear Is Plato, but Dearer Still Is Truth | Aristotle’s Critique of Plato 33. A Block of Marble Is a Potential Statue | Aristotle on Motion and Change 34. Let Us “Accuse” Yao Ming Together | Aristotle’s Categories 35. What Is Most Real? | Aristotle’s Metaphysics 36. Happiness Blooms Like a Flower | Nicomachean Ethics I 37. We Become What We Repeatedly Do | Nicomachean Ethics II 38. Virtue Means Finding the Mean | Nicomachean Ethics III 39. How Can “We” Live a Happy and Flourishing Life? | Aristotle’s Politics I 40. Whoever Lives Outside the City Is Either Beast or God | Aristotle’s Politics II 41. In the Name of the People or the Law? | Aristotle’s Politics III 42. Not Every Pleasure Is Worth Choosing | Epicureanism 43. The Wise Should Remain Unmoved Like a Pig | Skepticism 44. From Cynical Indignation to Cynical Detachment | Cynicism 45. Looking Coldly upon a World Without Joy | Stoicism 46. The Design Argument and Pascal’s Wager | Proofs of God I 47. Cosmological and Ontological Arguments | Proofs of God II 48. The Leap That Abandons Understanding | Reason Versus Faith 49. Ockham’s Razor Cuts Away Universals and Disputes | Nominalism Versus Realism 50. Mortal Songs and the Praise of Folly | Renaissance Humanism 51. The Individual Walking Through Faith’s Wasteland | The Reformation 52. To Become Certain, First Learn to Doubt | Descartes’s Discourse on Method 53. I Think, Therefore I Am | Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy 54. God Gave Me Eyes to See the World, but I Use Them to See Myself | Locke’s Essay I 55. Is the Mind a Blank Slate on Which Anything Can Be Written? | Locke’s Essay II 56. Is This the Best of All Possible Worlds? | Leibniz I 57. Is This the Best of All Possible Worlds? | Leibniz II 58. An Overexamined Life Cannot Be Lived | Hume I 59. Will the Sun Rise as Usual? | Hume II 60. Reason Is the Slave of the Passions | Hume III 61. Our Duty Is Not to Write Books but to Form Character | Kant’s Life and Philosophy 62. What Can I Know? | Kant Draws the Limits of Reason 63. The Human Mind Legislates Nature | Kant’s Copernican Revolution 64. How Are Synthetic A Priori Judgments Possible? | Kant’s Answer to Hume 65. Making Room for Faith | Kant’s Ideas of Reason 66. Autonomy Gives Me Freedom | Kant’s Moral Philosophy I 67. Is a Carefully Edited Truth Still True? | Kant’s Moral Philosophy II 68. Do Good People Live Happily Ever After? | Kant’s Moral Philosophy III 69. A War of All Against All? | Hobbes’s Leviathan I 70. Between Universal Fear and Particular Fear | Hobbes’s Leviathan II 71. Why Is No State Better Than a Bad State? | Locke’s Two Treatises I 72. How Did Humanity Earn Its First Fortune? | Locke’s Two Treatises II 73. Are Jack Ma and Bill Gates Entitled to Their Great Wealth? | Locke’s Two Treatises III 74. Rousseau Divided, Rousseau United | His Life and Thought 75. Vanity and Private Property | Rousseau on the Origin of Inequality 76. Are We Free to Do Wrong? | Rousseau’s Social Contract 77. The Light and Dark of the Enlightenment 78. Hegel the Liberal, Hegel the Conservative | His Life and Thought 79. Is Everything That Exists Rational? 80. Who Thinks Abstractly? 81. The Struggle for Recognition | Hegel on Master and Slave 82. “Being” and “Becoming” | Hegel’s “Substance Is Subject” 83. Ecce Homo! | “The Man Named Nietzsche” and “the Character Named Nietzsche” 84. Overcoming His Age Within Himself | Nietzsche Against Wagner 85. Happiness Is the Feeling That Power Is Growing | Nietzsche Against Christianity 86. “Force of Nature, Born Strong” | Nietzsche on Master and Slave Morality 87. God Is Dead and the Overman Is Born | Thus Spoke Zarathustra 88. How Does One Become What One Is? | Living with Nietzsche 89. Genius as Responsibility | Wittgenstein’s Life and Thought 90. Whereof One Cannot Speak, Thereof One Must Be Silent | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 91. A Perfect Conceptual Building Unfit for Human Habitation | Wittgenstein Against Wittgenstein 92. I Shall Teach You Differences | What Is Wrong with Augustine’s Picture? 93. Open Your Eyes to Family Resemblance | Wittgenstein and Anti-Essentialism 94. Standing atop the High Wall of Thought 95. Does Great Thinking Lead to Great Error? | Heidegger and Nazism 96. Life as a Process of “Being Thrown” | Heidegger’s Being and Time I 97. To Be in the World Is to Be Troubled | Being and Time II 98. Being-Toward-Death | Being and Time III 99. Must Children Without Umbrellas Run for Their Lives? | Rawls’s A Theory of Justice I 100. Are the Ignorant the Most Impartial? | A Theory of Justice II