Nicholas Rose

Are you attached to the idea that attachment is the source of suffering?

Today, as I think about how important it feels to think together with others about what it means to lead a good life, I wonder whether that is what it means to lead a good life? If so, is it the answer for me, the answer for everyone, or some? Also, what if it isn’t? What if it’s something else?

Existential Movement Festival of Life 2026 Join us for a celebration of human existence in all its colour, creativity, and complexity.

Join me at the Existential Movement Festival of Life 2026 where I am excited to be sharing my reflections on "Did Socrates reveal to us the lived experience of free will, choice and responsibility?" onlinevents.co.uk/event/existe...

Or maybe: “As I watch this and try to make sense of my experience, I notice that Floella Benjamin—someone I associate with a beautiful, warm smile—is not smiling. Could it be that the negative emotion stirring within me finds its meaning through this observation?” ?

Human Intelligence - Series 1 - Disruptors: Socrates - BBC Sounds Naomi Alderman explores the mind of Socrates, the original disruptor.

Excellent listen thank you @naomialderman.bsky.social

I think it has to be Socrates, he was the first to think about how we navigate in a tension between what we know and what we do not know

Moral Maze - What's the bigger threat to Europe: "cultural erasure", or far-right populism? - BBC Sounds Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.

“Diversity does not create unity”. Are we not all different and united in our diversity? How do we want to respond - stand against each other or work together? #existential www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Reith Lectures - Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution - 4. Fighting for Humanity in the Age of the Machine. - BBC Sounds Dutch historian Rutger Bregman gives his fourth and final Reith Lecture.

From this last episode I now understand the formative life experiences that sit beneath his lectures. I need to hear the previous ones again now. Is that why this order was chosen?

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Moral Maze - Should children be banned from social media? - BBC Sounds Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.

This debate feels just like those about smoking years ago. I wonder about the forces and resources that sit behind the speakers on all sides. My father was a smoker until he died of lung cancer….. I miss him. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I am less entertained hearing people speak who are there because they want to speak. I’m finding myself more captivated by those whose voices I don’t hear….

When Donald Trumps words were edited he threatened legal action? - @rutgerbregman.com what will you do?

Moral Maze - The Jury: Moral Innovation or Historic Relic? - BBC Sounds Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.

Socrates died at the hands of a jury……https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002n0jc?partner=uk.co.bbc

BBC - please explain why we couldn’t hear these words in particular?

The Reith Lectures - Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution - 1. A Time of Monsters - BBC Sounds Dutch historian Rutger Bregman delivers his first BBC Reith Lecture: Moral Revolution.

Is it correct that the BBC have edited out some of the lecture despite it being approved before it was recorded? What have we not been allowed to hear?

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The Reith Lectures - Moral Maze debate: Rutger Bregman’s call for a moral revolution - BBC Sounds Michael Buerk chairs a debate examining Rutger Bregman’s call for a moral revolution.

Find myself thinking about the immorality of morality…… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I used to really enjoy listening to the Moral Maze on R4 but no more. Thinking my obsession with all things Socrates over the last few years is shifting something…..

I’d like to get beyond the question of whether we have free will. Not yet found a convincing argument either way, pointers please, anyone?

Murder and murderers? Is there a reason why these words are not used?

I’m loving what Hadot has to say about Socrates. #socrates #existential #therapy

Control freak? Freak sounds bad - no? If you think you are one then how does it feel when you think you do not have the right relationship with “control” - that actually you are out of control? Time for a rethink?..

Is it irrational to be rational with someone who is being irrational?

If we know we know nothing then we are confronted with knowing something? So wisdom is not a characteristic that can be ascribed to a human? If we cannot be wise then how are we to respond?

Well I met one person convinced that every opportunity should be welcomed and considered and another person who stated that looking after what you already have is where the energy is best spent. Those positions are right for them at that moment but must be held as provisional looking forwards?

Back online after 17th September. I'm going in search of an old fashioned agora experience so I can have conversations about how life should be lived. I will let you know of any new provisional knowings..... Stay safe and look after each other! #existential

You are asking whether our experiences shape us OR we shape our experiences? Just think what we might do with the answer to that...

Hello Neel. Thanks for asking! Currently reading through the chapter "Socrates on trial". I like how you start out with discussing his daimoniom - an inner voice or intuition. If one of his interlocutors had ever said they knew what they knew because of their own diamoniom, I wonder what then?

Good question. Are such words a gift or a burden?

I’m not sure I can agree. I can say “what does not kill us, does not kill us”.

Plato's words or that of his teacher Socrates? #existential #socrates #therapy

Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics - Series 2 - Plato - BBC Sounds Natalie Haynes stands up for one of the greatest all-time thinkers, Plato.

Loved this. An episode on Socrates please? @nataliehaynes.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...