The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
A Philosophy Podcast and Philosophy Blog
On Isaac Asimov’s “The Last Question,” Albert Camus’s “The Fall,” Karl Jaspers’s “Truth and Symbol,” C.S. Peirce’s “The Fixation of Belief,” Bertold Brecht’s “Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction,” and Thomas Sheehan’s Stanford lectures on the Historical Jesus.
These are snippets covering topics we haven’t had time to cover on the podcast proper. Brief yourself via these 10–15 minute bursts, or become a PEL Citizen to listen to the full discussions.
A Not School discussion about Karl Jaspers’s 1947 work about his existential ideal and how that relates to religion and ontology.
Featuring Mark Linsenmayer, Michael Burgess, Tara Leigh Bell, John Ludders, Chris Eyre, Benjamin Feddersen. Recorded April 26, 2015, 1 hr., 50 min. How to see objects as cyphers for the Encompassing (Being/God/etc.).
Our Not School groups are reading Karl Jaspers, Charles Taylor, Paolo Friere, and possibly Woolf or Nabokov. Don’t forget the upcoming Aftershow discussion of Whitehead too. Come join up!
Our first Aftershow! Host Stephen West of the the Philosophize This! podcast is joined by Mark Linsenmayer, Alan Cook, Nick Halme, Kam Gill, Amogh Sahu, and Aaron Watson. Recorded January 25, 2015.
On Karl Jaspers’s “On My Philosophy” (1941), featuring comedian/actor/director/author Paul Provenza. What’s the relationship between science and philosophy? What about religion? Jaspers thinks that science gives you facts, but for an overarching world-view, you need philosophy. Living such a world-view requires Existenz, or a leap towards transcendence, which is of course religion’s stock and trade, though Jaspers is not a fan of dogmatism.
End song: “Another Way to Fall,” by New People, from The Easy Thing (2009). Download the album.
On Karl Jaspers’s “On My Philosophy” (1941), featuring comedian/actor/director/author Paul Provenza
Mark Linsenmayer introduces Jaspers’s essay, “On My Philosophy” (1941) on Existenz and the difference between philosophy, science, and religion.
Mark Linsenmayer introduces Karl Jaspers’s existentialist tract, “On My Philosophy.” (1941)
We were joined by comedian Paul Provenza to talk about Jaspsers’s essay “On My Philosophy” about the existentially necessary philosophical leap beyond what science can justify. Hint: The alternative is not embracing religious dogma.
