The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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On McCarthy’s 1985 anti-Western novel, featuring Wes, Seth, and Dylan.
How does violence play a role in the way the world works? This novel about a rogue band of scalp hunters presents a pessimistic, nihilistic philosophy where violence is central to the human condition and is the way to self-knowledge.
Is there really a division in today's culture between those who create and the merely receptive Continue Reading …
Bruce is best known as Elvis Costello's bassist for his first on about a dozen albums as The Continue Reading …
The anonymous policy wonk who runs the Carneades.org YouTube channel joins Mark and Bill to discuss Continue Reading …
Before she settles down to life of homemaking, security, and insurance policies with Bruce Baldwin Continue Reading …
We got some calls! Thanks a ton to Mark Eleveld and his students at Kankakee High School. We’re Continue Reading …
For this episode, we discussed Edith Wharton's novel The Custom of the Country, which was published Continue Reading …
Recorded 10/26/22. We recently put out a call among our supporters for some short audio clips of Continue Reading …
Continuing from part one on McCarthy's 1985 novel, we discuss whether the plentiful, explicit violence in the book is Continue Reading …
On The Concept of Law (1961), ch. 6, "Foundations of a Legal System." This chapter goes into detail about Hart's "rule Continue Reading …
