Plato's Cave
A Philosophy Podcast by Jordan Myers (MA Student, University of Houston)
We found 10 episodes of Plato's Cave with the tag “philosophy”.
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Ep. 59 - Existentialism: Jacques the Fatalist, by Diderot (PART 2)
September 21st, 2022 | 1 hr 41 mins
action, amorality, analysis, angst, cave, choice, deceit, denis, diderot, existential, existentialism, fatalist, forking, free, freedom, grad school, graduate, group, his, jacques, jordan, life, lying, master, meaning, mini series, morality, myers, paths, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, purpose, reading, rider, story, suffering, suicide, tales, the, treachery, university of houston, will
Part 2 of Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot.
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Ep. 58 - Existentialism: Jacques the Fatalist, by Diderot (PART 1)
September 19th, 2022 | 1 hr 18 mins
action, amorality, analysis, angst, cave, choice, deceit, denis, diderot, existential, existentialism, fatalist, forking, free, freedom, grad school, graduate, group, his, jacques, jordan, life, lying, master, meaning, mini series, morality, myers, paths, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, purpose, reading, rider, story, suffering, suicide, tales, the, treachery, university of houston, will
Part 1 of Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot.
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Ep. 57 - Existentialism: The Stranger, by Camus
September 17th, 2022 | 1 hr 50 mins
action, analysis, angst, camus, cave, choice, existential, existentialism, freedom, grad school, graduate, group, jordan, life, meaning, mini series, myers, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, purpose, reading, stranger, suffering, suicide, the, university of houston
The Stranger by Albert Camus.
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Ep. 56 - "Existentialism is a Humanism," by Sartre
September 15th, 2022 | 1 hr 35 mins
action, analysis, angst, antione, antoine, cave, choice, creation, ethics, existential, existentialism, freedom, french, grad school, graduate, group, humanism, jordan, life, meaning, mini series, myers, nausea, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, purpose, radical, reading, sartre, self, self-taught man, suffering, suicide, university of houston
"Existentialism is a Humanism" by Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Ep. 55 - Existentialism: Nausea, by Sartre (PART 2)
September 13th, 2022 | 2 hrs 2 mins
action, analysis, angst, antione, antoine, cave, choice, creation, ethics, existential, existentialism, freedom, french, grad school, graduate, group, humanism, interview, jordan, life, meaning, mini series, myers, nausea, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, purpose, radical, reading, sartre, self, self-taught man, suffering, suicide, university of houston
Part 2 of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Ep. 54 - Existentialism: Nausea, by Sartre (PART 1)
September 10th, 2022 | 1 hr 8 mins
action, analysis, angst, antione, antoine, cave, choice, creation, ethics, existential, existentialism, freedom, french, grad school, graduate, group, humanism, jordan, life, meaning, mini series, myers, nausea, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, purpose, radical, reading, sartre, self, self-taught man, suffering, suicide, university of houston
Part 1 of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Ep. 53 - Existentialism: Notes from Underground, by Dostoyevsky (PART 2)
September 8th, 2022 | 1 hr 56 mins
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Part 2 of Notes from Underground. The Underground Man's past.
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Ep. 52 - Existentialism: Notes from Underground, by Dostoyevsky (PART 1)
September 5th, 2022 | 1 hr 46 mins
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Part 1 of Notes from Underground. The Paradoxicalist's philosophy.
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Ep. 51 - Manuel Vargas: Free Will Revisionism
August 19th, 2022 | 8 mins 16 secs
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In this episode, I discuss a view about Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Revisionism, with Manuel Vargas. We talk about what it means to be a revisionist about theories in general, how he thinks our view of free will should be reshaped, and how the way we talk about free will and moral responsibility shapes the way we think about the debate.
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Ep. 50 - Declaration of the Rights of Man (PPE series prt7)
August 18th, 2022 | 1 hr 48 mins
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In part 7 of the Political Philosophy Reading Group series, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, a foundational Enlightenment document that inspired some of the United States' own formational ideas.