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Heidegger & His Platonic Critics: Strauss, Gadamer, & Patočka, Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 5:00 PM | Meetup This book introduces the arguments of three prominent Platonic critics of Heidegger — Leo Strauss (1899-1973), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), and Jan Patočka (1907-1977)

Did #Heidegger get #Plato wrong? 🤔 Join us #online for a reading group on Plato's #phenomenology and dialogical #ethics! 👀

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Gloves Off Gloves Off with Stephen Marche

What would a Canadian insurgency look like?

This week on Gloves Off, we explore the unthinkable: a U.S. military occupation of Canada, why insurgencies form, and how ordinary people become fighters.

🎧 Listen here: shows.acast.com/gloves-off

Why Nietzsche Hated Stoicism — His Rejection Explained, Sun, Aug 31, 2025, 8:30 PM | Meetup *"Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy has been — a confession on the part of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir…"* Nie

"Nietzsche thought #Stoicism was a profound betrayal of human nature — a #philosophy of life-denial disguised as wisdom, spiritual anesthesia masquerading as strength…" 🔥🔥🔥

Join us on #Zoom tomorrow to discuss Why #Nietzsche Hated Stoicism! All welcome!

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Philosophers must reckon with the meaning of thermodynamics | Aeon Essays Everything eats and is eaten. Everything destroys and is destroyed. It is our moral duty to strike back at the Universe

Life is a moral catastrophe. To exist is to be unavoidably complicit in an order that is entirely evil. What are we to do about this moral fact? Should we retire from existence as quickly and as peacefully as possible? Or is there another way?

Why Nietzsche Hated Stoicism — His Rejection Explained, Sun, Aug 31, 2025, 8:30 PM | Meetup *"Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy has been — a confession on the part of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir…"* Nie

"Nietzsche thought #Stoicism was a profound betrayal of human nature — a #philosophy of life-denial disguised as wisdom, spiritual anesthesia masquerading as strength…" 🔥🔥🔥

Join us on #Zoom tomorrow to discuss Why #Nietzsche Hated Stoicism! All welcome!

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Classical Chinese Poetry: The Book of Songs / 詩經 (1046–771 BC), Fri, Aug 29, 2025, 8:30 PM | Meetup The 詩經 or Shijing (alternately known as the "Classic of Poetry", "The Book of Songs", and other names) is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and a cornerst

Join us #online tonight for the start of a live reading series on Classical Chinese #Poetry! 🖌️ We begin with The Book of Songs from ~1100 BC.

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Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy discussions & events! #BookClub #History #Literature #Confucianism

How Mahler's symphonies reclaimed Nietzsche from the far right | Leah Batstone Explore how Gustav Mahler's symphonies reinterpret Nietzsche's philosophy, offering a progressive vision that transcends far-right ideologies through music's unique insights.

Drawing on perspectivism, the Übermensch, and Eternal Recurrence, Leah Batstone argues that Mahler’s symphonies recast Nietzsche’s ideas through a progressive, pluralistic lens. | iai.tv/articles/how...

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#philsky #artsky #musicsky

David Brooks: “Found By Faith” (How God Works: The Science Behind Spirituality), Sun, Aug 17, 2025, 8:30 PM | Meetup People find faith or change faiths for many reasons: marriage, raising a family, dealing with grief or crisis. But sometimes it happens the other way around… faith finds yo

What is #Faith? Join us on #Zoom next week to discuss “Found By Faith”, an episode of the How God Works podcast with guest David Brooks! 🪔🙏 @daviddesteno.bsky.social

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Check out our calendar for daily philosophy events! #Religion #Philosophy #Psychology

How Empathy Became a Threat

Excellent piece by @jenszalai.bsky.social. She and @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social are right. Empathy unfettered can be a problem. But this is why religions tend to cultivate it, but also put guardrails around it. Empathy is the fire, but principles constrain its focus & limits.🧵

Rosie DiManno: Victoria Mboko beats Naomi Osaka in National Bank Open final to cap dream run The 18-year-old Canadian defeated the four-time Grand Slam champion in three sets to win her first WTA Tour title.

GTA teen Victoria Mboko beats Naomi Osaka in National Bank Open final to cap dream run

Yesterday: the economists were wrong, tariffs are clearly working

Today: Ok, we need to fire the economists because the jobs data doesn't look good

Didi Kuo, Podcast Episode · New Books in Political Science · 07/04/2025 · 55m

“There's no such thing as a brilliant, magical centrist set of issues. There have been so many efforts- to- transcend the party system with the smarter ideas and the better ideas. That's just not how ideas work.”
💡 @didikuo1.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

The cover of the book Decolonizing Ukraine by Dr Greta Lynn Uehling

🎧 Dr. Greta Uehling joins us to talk about the 2014 invasion of Crimea, the many forms of #resistance to Russian aggression, and her new book Decolonizing Ukraine ⬇️
#BookSky #SkyStorians @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

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Human Nature and The Impossibility of Utopia, Sun, Aug 3, 2025, 8:30 PM | Meetup The idea of utopia — of a perfect society devoid of suffering and inequality — is planted firmly in the human imagination and psyche. From pre-biblical times to Thomas More

Join us on #Zoom tomorrow to discuss "Human Nature and The Impossibility of #Utopia"! 🌞🕊️ Is utopia achievable? And if not, why not? @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social

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Check out our calendar for daily philosophy events! #PoliticalPhilosophy #Philosophy #Ethics

After 19 seasons of The Agenda and more than 4000 shows and 19 000 guests, Steve Paikin has a brand new gig – with a very original name. Launching soon: The Paikin Podcast.

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Is Trudeau’s reformed Senate working? Here’s what senators say Podcast Episode · The House · 2025-07-26 · 50m

A “House” call - thanks to @jptasker.bsky.social for this deep dive into the workings of the reformed independent Senate. #cdnpoli #SenateofCanada #SenCA @senindepend.bsky.social

Episode 191: Public Philosophy (with Kate Manne) - Hotel Bar Podcast Who are philosophers talking to when they do "public philosophy"?

New episode just dropped! Check out this great conversation with special guest @katemanne.bsky.social about public philosophy!
w/ @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social @rickleephilos.bsky.social & @talia-mae.bsky.social

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The Price of Neutrality: Why “Staying Out of It” Backfires in Moral Disagreement, Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 8:30 PM | Meetup People care where others around them stand on contentious moral and political issues. Yet when faced with the prospect of taking sides and the possibility of alienating obs

Join us on #Zoom tonight to discuss "The Price of #Neutrality" on the social and interpersonal consequences of "staying out of it" in moral and political disagreements! 😐

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#PoliticalPhilosophy #Ethics #MoralPsychology #Philosophy #Debate

Against the pursuit of happiness | Lorraine Besser

Why you should not try to be happy. | iai.tv/articles/aga...

“Giving up the pursuit of happiness feels like a cop-out, as if we are wasting the gift of life. But what if I were to tell you that giving up on happiness is the first step to a better life?” writes @lorrainebesser.bsky.social

#socsky

Philosophy Topic Debate: What is Happiness? , Thu, Jul 17, 2025, 8:30 PM | Meetup In this series we will discuss great questions of philosophy. You could call what we are doing debate style or open forum, but participants are free to give their ideas and

What is #Happiness? 😊 Join us for a #Zoom debate tonight! Hosted by John. All are welcome!

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#Philosophy #Ethics #Love #Happiness #PublicPhilosophy #Psychology #Debate

"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants."

Wang Yi, Hannah Nation ed., "Faithful Disobedience: Writings on Church and State from a Chinese House Church Movement" (IVP Academic, 2022) New Books in Religion · Episode

Fascinating discussion on Faithful Disobedience, a new volume on the state of #Christianity and Christian #theology in #China – open.spotify.com/episode/0MKj...

#Podcast #Philosophy #Religion #ReligiousFreedom

The normal and the abnormal We often judge mental health and disorder against a benchmark of what it is to be 'normal'. Critics argue though that this is a dangerous approach and what is normal is unknown. Cultures have often…

Cultures have long labelled unacceptable behaviour as mental illness; a view now seen as prejudiced and absurd. | iai.tv/video/the-no...

Join Rose Cartwright, Frank Tallis, Dinesh Bhugra, and Bessel van der Kolk to ask: should we change society to stop demonising difference?

#socsky #medsky

Bourdieu, Bourdieu, Bourdieu... #Distinction #CulturalCapital #Taste #Domination #RulesOfTheGame

When to Be a Hero (guest post) - Daily Nous "Is now the time to be a hero?" The Trump administration's brazen interferences with academic freedom and university governance, its punishment of students for exercising their freedom of expression, ...

“What are the things we should be doing right now, even if we don’t have to be doing them? This is always a hard question, but in our current moment it is particularly hard…” - guest post by Elizabeth Harman

Kant FTΦ: Umberto Eco's Interpretation and Overinterpretation (Live Reading), Wed, Jul 2, 2025, 9:00 PM | Meetup We'll be continuing our reading from page 29 at this meetup. Umberto Eco attempts to sail between Scylla and Charybdis: is interpretation completely open-ended, or must we

Join us on #Zoom every Wednesday for a live reading and discussion of Umberto #Eco's Interpretation and Overinterpretation! 🔎 #Philosophy #Hermeneutics

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It’s been said that “he who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

This week, we explore this idea in the kickoff episode to our annual You 2.0 series. We look at the science of purpose — how and why it impacts our lives in so many different ways. open.spotify.com/episode/335N...

Darren Wayman's Story - Hidden Brain Media In 2019, Darren was about to become a first-time father, and he was terrified. Then a doctor came into the delivery room and said something that completely changed his perspective on parenthood.

This week on My Unsung Hero: Darren Wayman was about to become a first-time father, and he was terrified. Then a doctor came into the delivery room and said something that changed his perspective on parenthood. hiddenbrain.org/unsunghero/d...