Episode #026 ... Thomas Hobbes pt. 1 - The So...

Today we talk about Kurt Vonnegut’s book Slaughterhouse-Five. How war stories can distort the reality of war, how trauma can fracture our experience of time and identity, and why Billy Pilgrim becomes attracted to the strange philosophy of the Tralfamadorians. Hope you love it. : ...  Show more

Today we talk more about Peter Sloterdijk’s book You Must Change Your Life. We talk about Heidegger, the subject-object view of the world, how environments form us, symbolic immunity, modern cynicism, vertical tension, base camps, civilizations as collective immune systems, and w ...  Show more

In this episode of Podverse: We start off examining everyday questions and answers with a twist. Then we delve into conditioning and mull over the effect if any it might have on us as a society. You get the question of the week and we set a task for ourselves as usual. Finally I ...  Show more

In this episode, I explain Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau's views of the social contract. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy T ...  Show more

In this episode we finally get around to talking about Spinoza. It turns out normativity is kind of complicated when you think everything is strictly determined and there’s no such thing as contingency! We discuss the relationship between affect and power, the inherently socia ...

In this episode of Podverse:We start off this week facing some pretty hard questions, we ask what binds us and how do we do it. We discuss how we as a society prejudge and why? You all, get an opportunity to drag me through the mud and ridicule me. We refer back to episode 2 for ...  Show more