History of Philosophy Audio Archive

217 Episodes

1. Hemlock #13 - Human Beings First: Rev. Dr. Helen Boursier on ICE Detention Centers, Human Rights in the Borderlands, Christian Ministry in Dark Places, and the Theology of Witness and Hospitality

   Published: 3/29/2025
2. #161 - The Birmingham Tragedy: James Baldwin and Reinhold Niebuhr Discuss Civil Rights, God's Presence in Tragedy, Justice and Love, and Bearing Witness to Evil

   Published: 3/27/2025
3. #160a - The Meaning of History (1 of 2): Darren Staloff on Philosophical Approaches to History, Eliade, Vico, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, and the Search for a Universal History of Humanity

   Published: 3/18/2025
4. Consolatio #3 - Book 2: Fortune's Wheel, the Lesser and Greater Teachers of Virtue, Fate and Goodness, and How Mixed with Bitterness is the Sweetness of Man's Life

   Published: 3/16/2025
5. Hemlock #12 - Gaia Wakes: My Conversation with Topher McDougal on AI, Climate Change, Nuclear Weapons, Planetary Consciousness, David Graeber, Gregory Bateson, Technological Lifeforms, and Evolution

   Published: 3/11/2025
6. #159 - Roy Casagranda's Dreams and Genocide: Yemen, the United Arab Republic, Yemen's Civil War, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Henry Kissinger, Houthi Revolutionaries, Climate Change, and the Arab Spring

   Published: 3/7/2025
7. Consolatio #2 - To Oppose Evil Men is the Chief Aim We Set Before Ourselves: Book I, Entrance of Philosophy to the Dungeon, Condemnation of Stoics and Epicurus, Pi & Theta, Fear Nothing, Hope Nothing

   Published: 3/2/2025
8. #158 - Mircea Eliade and the Cycles of Time: Darren Staloff on Comparative Mythology, Symbolic Archetypes, the History of Religion, Eliade's Religious Scholarship, and the Theophany of Profane Events

   Published: 2/28/2025
9. #157 - Learn to Die So You Can Learn to Live: Cornel West on Socratic Legacy, Blues, Chekhov's Christ, American Democracy, Deep Education, Jazz, Augustine, and the Blue Note in the American Song

   Published: 2/24/2025
10. Consolation #1: 100 Reviewers Special! The Consolation of Philosophy - An Experiment in Reading Boethius, Part 1: Introduction

    Published: 2/24/2025
11. Hemlock #11 - Call Your Friends (or, Unhinged Volume II)

    Published: 2/23/2025
12. #156 - Sartre: Robert C. Solomon on Existential Philosophy, Responsibility, Sartre's Experience as a POW, Being and Nothingness, No Exit, Phenomenology, Bad Faith, and Why We Are Doomed to Be Free

    Published: 2/20/2025
13. Hemlock #10 - Capital (Kapital) Volume 1: Interview with Yale's Paul North & OSU's Paul Reitter on Karl Marx's Theory of Commodification, Communism, Property Rights, Value Theory, Worker Alienation

    Published: 2/18/2025
14. #155 - Speaking Peace: Marshall Rosenberg on Conflict Resolution, Giraffe and Jackal Language, Nonviolent Communication, Expressing Needs and Desires, and Articulating a More Peaceful World

    Published: 2/9/2025
15. #154 - The Philosopher's Stone: Terence McKenna on Hermeticism, Renaissance Magic, the Hidden History of Alchemy, the Catharites, Giordano Bruno, Rosicrucians, and the Rise of the Invisible College

    Published: 2/7/2025
16. #153 - A Process Perspective on Human Life: John Dupré on Panpsychism, Holobionts, the Paradoxes of Speciation, Dynamics of Human Evolution, Theseus's Ship, and Processual Mechanics

    Published: 2/4/2025
17. Hemlock #9 - An Unhinged Rant About What Our Government Likes to Call "Detention Centers"

    Published: 1/31/2025
18. #152 - The Crusades Complete & Remastered: Roy Casagranda on the Viking Conquest of Britain and France, the Great Schism, the “Byzantine” Frontier Crisis, and the End of the Arab Empire's Golden Age

    Published: 1/29/2025
19. #151 - The British Romantic Poets: Adam Potkay on How Blake, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Burns Worshiped Nature, Sought Transcendence, Defied Authority, and created Modern Love

    Published: 1/28/2025
20. #150 - The Government of the Future: Noam Chomsky on Libertarianism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Political Implications of Marxism, Individualism v Collectivism, and Prospects for Democracy and Survival

    Published: 1/21/2025