The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

The Partially Examined Life is a podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode, we pick a short text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy. You don't have to know any philosophy, or even to have read the text we're talking about to (mostly) follow and (hopefully) enjoy the discussion. For links to the texts we discuss and other info, check out www.partiallyexaminedlife.com. We also feature episodes from other podcasts by our hosts to round out your partially examined life, including Pretty Much Pop (prettymuchpop.com, covering all media), Nakedly Examined Music (nakedlyexaminedmusic.com, deconstructing songs), Philosophy vs. Improv (philosophyimprov.com, fun with performance skills and philosophical ideas), and (sub)Text (subtextpodcast.com, looking deeply at lit and film). Learn about more network podcasts at partiallyexaminedlife.com.

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Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 54m. Bisher sind 1258 Folge(n) erschienen. .

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 50 days 21 hours 51 minutes

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NEM#86: Seth Swirsky Provides Instant Pleasure


Seth Swirsky was a highly successful staff songwriter for over 20 years and has put out three solo albums and three albums as The Red Button since 2004. He's a huge Beatles fan and has released a Beatles documentary Beatles Stories and has multiple...


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 November 18, 2018  1h10m
 
 

Episode 202: Julia Kristeva on Disgust, Fear and the Self (Part Two)


Continuing on Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, ch. 1 and 2. We try to get clearer on Kristeva's talk of "object," the relationship between language and abjection, how Kristeva is advancing on Freud, how to be a mom that allows a kid to...


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 November 12, 2018  1h17m
 
 

Episode 202: Julia Kristeva on Disgust, Fear and the Self (Part One)


On Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1980), ch. 1 and 2. Kristeva writes about "abjection," where we violently reject things like corpses, bodily wastes and other fluids, and the Lovecraftian unnameable that lurks at the edge of our awareness....


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 November 5, 2018  46m
 
 

PREMIUM-Ep 201 Marcus Aurelius's "Meditations" (Part Three)


Mark and Seth get further into the specifics of Marcus's metaphysics and how this is supposed to relate to behavior. Can his directives really come solely "from reason" as he claims? How does this interact with the behaviors that we pursue "by...


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 November 5, 2018  13m
 
 

Episode 201: Marcus Aurelius's Stoicism with Ryan Holiday (Part Two)


More on The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (ca. 180 CE) plus Ryan's The Daily Stoic (2016). We talk Stoicism as "pre-mourning," love of fate, the divine plan, political ethics, ethical models, and overwriting your brain with the Stoic operating...


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 October 29, 2018  59m
 
 

NEM#85: John Etheridge (Soft Machine) is For Everything!


John is an amazing guitarist who started in the late-'60s British blues boom, had his first compositions set to tape with Darryl Way's Wolf in the early '70s, then joined the latter line-ups of jazz-prog legends Soft Machine (replacing Alan...


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 October 29, 2018  1h12m
 
 

Episode 201: Marcus Aurelius's Stoicism with Ryan Holiday (Part One)


On The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (ca. 180 C.E.) plus Ryan's The Daily Stoic (2016). What does Stoicism look like in practice, in both ancient and modern contexts? You might think that eschewing the shallow, out-of-our-control trappings of fame...


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 October 22, 2018  57m
 
 

Episode 200: Kant/Mendelssohn/Foucault on Enlightenment (Part Two)


Continuing on "What Is Enlightenment" by Immanuel Kant (1784), "On Enlightening the Mind" by Moses Mendelssohn (1784), and "What Is Enlightenment" by Michael Foucault (1984). We finish up Kant (the courage to know!) and lay out the Mendelssohn...


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 October 15, 2018  1h6m
 
 

Episode 200: Kant/Mendelssohn/Foucault on Enlightenment (Part One)


On "What Is Enlightenment" by Immanuel Kant (1784), "On Enlightening the Mind" by Moses Mendelssohn (1784), and "What Is Enlightenment" by Michael Foucault (1984). At the end of the historical period known as The Enlightenment, a Berlin newspaper...


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 October 8, 2018  44m
 
 

Bonus: (sub)Text#4: Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia" (Part One)


Wes Alwan is joined by and Louis Scuderi to discuss Freud's . Note: Part two will NOT be appearing on this feed. Become a PEL Citizen to get . Visit to learn how. .


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 October 8, 2018  35m