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#72: Sarah McQuaid Kills Her Darlings


Sarah has recorded five solo albums since 1997, starting with traditional folk songs, sometimes guitar instrumentals, and now focusing on originals that mix British and American folk in a style influenced by Joni Mitchell among others. She has lately...


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 April 30, 2018  54m
 
 

Episode 188: Discussing "Lysistrata" and Politics with Lucy and Emily (Part Two)


Concluding our discussion of Aristophanes's play with Lucy Lawless and Emily Perkins. We focus on trying to connect its lessons to the here and now: Is Lysistrata's victory properly described as the ascension of some kind of "feminine spirit" over...


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 April 30, 2018  56m
 
 

Episode 188: Discussing "Lysistrata" and Politics with Lucy and Emily (Part One)


We are rejoined by actresses Lucy Lawless and Emily Perkins to discuss Aristophanes's bawdy play. . Supplementary readings included Jeffery Henderson's introduction to his 1988 translation of the play; "Sexual Humor and Harmony in Lysistrata" by Jay...


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 April 23, 2018  48m
 
 

NEM#71: Aaron David Gleason Is a Wry Observer


Aaron was born into show business, staring young in L.A. in the early 00's with All Hours, then went solo, moved to New York, became an actor, and has now released his first album in seven years, Wry Observer. We discuss the title track from that...


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 April 16, 2018  51m
 
 

"Lysistrata" w/ Lucy Lawless, Emily Perkins, Erica Spyres, Bill Youmans & Aaron Gleason


The PEL Players return to perform a "cold read" of Aristophanes's play about using a sex strike to end war, first performed in 411 BCE. Jeffrey Henderson's translation makes this very accessible, and it's still really damn funny. Your hosts are joined...


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 April 16, 2018  1h22m
 
 

PREMIUM-Episode 187: The Limits of Free Speech (Part Three)


Three substantial chunks of a follow-up conversation to our . Mark and Wes discuss Jordan Peterson on speech, organizations' promoting certain speech (as opposed to restricting), insults vs. arguments, offense vs. harm, "incoherence" arguments like...


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 April 14, 2018  13m
 
 

Episode 187: The Limits of Free Speech (Part Two)


Continuing our free form discussion, trying to make sense of Stanley Fish's “” (1994) and other potential rationales for prohibiting hate speech. How might the same sentence or idea be used in different speech acts, some of which might be...


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 April 9, 2018  1h0m
 
 

NEM#70: Amy Annelle's Natural Environments


Amy has recorded nine albums of emotionally stark but often artistically decorated original folk music, punctuated by cover tunes like the opening music here, Townes Van Zandt's "Buckskin Stallion Blues," which appeared in the film Three Billboards...


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 April 9, 2018  1h2m
 
 

Episode 187: The Limits of Free Speech (Part One)


A free-form discussion drawing on Stanley Fish's “There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It’s a Good Thing, Too” (1994), Joel Feinberg’s “Limits to the Free Expression of Opinion” (1975), and other sources. What are the legitimate...


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 March 30, 2018  58m
 
 

NEM#69: Craig Wedren Catch-Up: "Safe Home/Fadeland"


On NEM#15, Craig introduced us to his songwriting style: How a hardcore aesthetic informs even his most syntho creations, and how whimsicality and beauty can coexist harmoniously. Craig has since then released the Adult Desire album, and returns to...


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 March 29, 2018  36m