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PREVIEW-Ep. 278: Derrick Bell on the Dynamics of Racism (Part Two)

September 29, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 4 Comments

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode in its entirety. Citizens can get it here. Continuing from part one on Faces At the Bottom of the Well (1992) with guest Lawrence Ware. We discuss "The Racial Preference Licensing Act" (ch. 3), which plays with an idea (attributed to his fictional alter ego Geneva Crenshaw) that since businesses continue to discriminate (in hiring if  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Ep. 266: Jonathan Lear’s Plato: Psyche and Society (Part Two)

April 4, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode in its entirety. Citizens can get the second part here. Continuing from part one on essays from Lear's Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul (1988). This preview comes from the middle of the recording, featuring the beginning of our debate about the relation between the three parts of the soul: Wes argues that this  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Ep. 265: Plato’s “Phaedo”: Philosophy as Training for Death (Part Two)

March 22, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode in its entirety. Citizens can get the second part here. Continuing on the Phaedo, getting into the details of Plato's cosmology as described by the dialogue, including laying out his various proofs for the immortality of the soul. In this preview we start out principle of physics that Socrates puts forward that things always emerge  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Ep. 264: Plato’s “Timaeus” on Cosmology (Part Two)

March 8, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

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Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode in its entirety. Citizens can get the second part here. Continuing from part one on the Timaeus. In this preview, we return to look closely at the beginning of the dialogue where Plato argues for differences between the perceived, created, impermanent world and its perfect model. In the full discussion, we get into time, space, and  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Ep. 263: Lise Van Boxel’s “Warspeak” on Strategies for Valuing (Part Two)

February 22, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode in its entirety. Citizens can get the second part here. Continuing on Warspeak: Nietzsche's Victory Over Nihilism with guests Jeff Black and Michael Grenke. In this preview, we get more into how Lise describes the relationship of the feminine principle of Becoming with the masculine principle of Being. This should be "agnoistic"  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Ep. 262: Nietzsche on Self-Denial (Part Two)

February 8, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode in its entirety. Citizens can get the second part here. Mark, Wes, Dylan, Seth explore more of essay three of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals on the meaning of ascetic ideals. The preview clip here engages in some summarizing, trying to fit asceticism into Nietzsche's overall morality as it moves forward from the slave revolt over  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Ep. 261: Derek Parfit on Personal Identity (Part Two)

January 25, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode in its entirety. Citizens can get the second part here. Mark, Wes, Dylan, Seth cover more of the thought experiments and other arguments from Parfit's Reasons and Persons (1984), ch. 10-13. We consider more closely Bernard Williams' response to Parfit and how Parfit turns that argument back on itself. In defending physicalism  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Ep. 256: Kropotkin’s Anarchist Communism (Part Two)

November 16, 2020 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode in its entirety. Citizens can get the second part here. Mark, Wes, Dylan, Seth get into specific points and textual passages from Peter Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread (1892), continuing from part one. In this preview, we start by considering that Kropotkin is right that mutual aid is a natural tendency and so communism is very  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Ep. 255: Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” (Part Two)

November 2, 2020 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode in its entirety. Citizens can get the second part here. Mark, Wes, Dylan, Seth, and guest ex-Marine Brian Wilson continue working through the text, considering Sunzi's strategies and assumptions, and how these might (or might not) apply to competing in the business world. This preview should tell you whether it would be an optimal  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Ep. 254: Michael Sandel Against Meritocracy (Part Two)

October 19, 2020 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode in its entirety. Citizens can get the second part here. Mark, Wes, Dylan and Seth continue the discussion on The Tyranny of Merit to talk further about how social values can and do change, and whether these changes can be engineered in the way that Sandel seems to want. We interviewed Michael Sandel in part one. This preview includes  Continue Reading …

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