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Long-form philosophy content for late-night listening and deep focus. We cover the big thinkers - from the Stoics and Aristotle to Camus, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky - explained in a calm, steady voice that keeps things interesting without being overstimulating.
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Bad Fortune Frees, Good Fortune Lies | Boethius's Consolation for Sleep (opens the original)
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Fall asleep to the story of Boethius, the Roman philosopher who faced execution and answered it with reason alone. In a prison cell in the north of Italy, fifteen centuries ago, one of the most powerful men in the kingdom sat condemned to death and did something no one expected. He wrote a long conversation with Philosophy herself. Tonight we follow the whole of that life and that book. We trace Boethius from the heights of Roman honor to his fall on a false charge, through the vast project by w
Life Is Worth Living | William James and the Sick Soul (opens the original)
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Fall asleep to the life of William James, the invalid who became America's great philosopher of hope and belief. As a young man William James was so ill in body and mind that he could barely leave his room, and one spring evening he made a private decision that would shape everything after it. This episode follows the whole arc of his life and thought, from a wandering childhood in the most gifted family in America, through the collapse that nearly ended him, to the years when he founded a new s
Is Change Real? | Heraclitus vs Parmenides | Philosophy for Sleep (opens the original)
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Fall asleep to the oldest quarrel in philosophy, whether all things flow or nothing ever moves at all. Twenty-five centuries ago, two Greek thinkers gave opposite answers to the same question, and nearly every philosopher since has stood somewhere between them. This episode follows the quarrel from its beginning. We meet Heraclitus, the lonely riddler of Ephesus who hid his one book in a temple and taught that everything flows, that the world is a river and a living fire held in tune by a hidden
No One Is Free Alone | Hegel and the Need to Be Seen (opens the original)
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Fall asleep to Hegel, who watched an old world end and swore reason was moving through the ruin. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born into a modest world and rose, against long odds, to become the most commanding philosopher of his age, the last great thinker who dared to explain nearly everything as a single unfolding whole. This episode opens in a burning town, with an unknown lecturer carrying the only copy of his first masterpiece, and from there it traces the long climb of his life and hi
Those Who Know Do Not Speak | The Hidden Teachings of Lao Tzu (opens the original)
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Fall asleep to the ancient Chinese way of yielding, water, and the wisdom of doing without forcing. More than two thousand years ago, in a China torn apart by endless war, an old man rode west on an ox, handed a gatekeeper a small book of verses, and disappeared into the mountains. That book, and the tradition it founded, is the subject of this long, slow episode. We begin with its legendary author and the strange little classic he left behind, then move into the heart of his teaching, the namel
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