HoP 001 - Everything is Full of Gods - Thale...

The period of political turmoil and experimentation in liberty that set the stage for philosophers including Grotius and Spinoza. 

An interview on the surprising comforts to be found in the philosophy of pessimism, focusing on Bayle but looking all the way forward to Schopenhauer. 

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Today we discussed the "Out of Africa" theory, the adversity of early humans, the term "Pre-Socratic", the first philosopher Thales, the meanest philosopher Heraclitus and Democritus, the godfather of the theory of atomism. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this wit ...  Show more

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The first part of this episode is a brief introduction to the podcast (who I am, what my motivation is for doing this, and what I hope to achieve), and in the second part, we describe the geography of Greece (Hellas) and its natural resources</sp ...