Subscribe to get parts 1 and 2 of this now, ad-free, plus tons of bonus content. Continuing on Hegel's Phenomenology, "Spirit" chapter, now up to sections 511-526, which finishes off the sub-section of "Self-Alienated Spirit" called "Culture and its Realm of Actuality." Featuring Mark, Wes, and Seth. Sponsors: Go to NerdWallet.com/PEL for trustworthy small business Continue Reading …
Ep. 389: Hegel on Wealth and Power (Part One for Supporters)
Continuing on Hegel's Phenomenology, "Spirit" chapter, now up to sections 511-526, which finishes off the sub-section of "Self-Alienated Spirit" called "Culture and its Realm of Actuality." Featuring Mark, Wes, and Seth. At the end of our last episode, we talked about how in putting on the robes of culture that make us into recognizable persons, we might identify as Continue Reading …
Episode 14: Machiavelli on Politics
Reading Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince and Ch. 1-20 of The Discourse on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy. What's a philosophically astute approach to political matters? What makes a government successful? Should you keep that fortress or sell it for scrap? If you conquer, say, Iraq, do you have to then go and live there for the occupation to work out? Is it OK to display Continue Reading …
Episode 14: Machiavelli on Politics
Reading Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince and Ch. 1-20 of The Discourse on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy. What's a philosophically astute approach to political matters? What makes a government successful? Should you keep that fortress or sell it for scrap? If you conquer, say, Iraq, do you have to then go and live there for the occupation to work out? Is it OK to display Continue Reading …

