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#80: Fate, the Oracle & Free Will: Did the Greeks Believe in Genuine Agency? Prof. Esther Eidinow (opens the original)
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What did the ancient Greeks actually believe about fate, free will, luck and human agency? Were our lives understood as predetermined by the gods and fate—or did ordinary Greeks believe that their choices could genuinely change the future? In this episode of The Prometheans, I’m joined by Professor Esther Eidinow, Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol and Fellow of the British Academy, to explore the fascinating relationship between fate, uncertainty and human agency in ancie
#79: Are Miracles Being Suppressed? Dale Allison on NDEs, ESP & the Supernatural (opens the original)
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Are miracles real — and if they are, why do so many people refuse to take the evidence seriously? In this episode of The Prometheans, I sit down with Dale C. Allison Jr., Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary and author of Encountering Mystery: Religious Experience in a Secular Age. Allison has spent decades studying the historical Jesus, early Christianity, the resurrection and Second Temple Judaism. But in Encountering Mystery, he turns to a very diff
#78: Beyond Broicism: What Seneca, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius Actually Taught | Dr. Gregory Sadler (opens the original)
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What Would a Stoic Actually Do? The Practical Wisdom of Seneca, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius Everyone's seen "Stoicism" turned into ice baths, cold showers, and "no excuses" bro-wisdom. Dr. Gregory Sadler — philosopher, editor of Stoicism Today, and one of the most prolific Stoic teachers on the internet — has spent over a decade fighting exactly that misreading. He calls it "Broicism," and in this conversation he tells us why it gets Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius almost exactly backward
#77: Was Freud Right All Along? Neuroscientist Mark Solms Reopens the Case (opens the original)
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For most of the last 50 years, Sigmund Freud has been treated as a discredited relic — unscientific, unfalsifiable, a historical curiosity kept alive only by literary critics. Neuropsychologist Mark Solms disagrees, and he has the credentials to make the case: Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town, discoverer of the actual brain mechanism behind dreaming, and translator of the 24-volume Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. In his new bo
#76: What If Matter Doesn't Exist? Howard Robinson on Idealism (opens the original)
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Is Reality Fundamentally Mental? Howard Robinson on Idealism, Consciousness, and Reality What if the physical world is not ultimately what we think it is? In this episode of The Prometheans, we are joined by philosopher Howard Robinson for a deep exploration of one of philosophy's most fundamental questions: Is reality fundamentally mental? Robinson is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at Central European University and the author of Matter and Sense, Perception, From the Knowledge Argument to Me
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