HeyJaredTerrifying Questions
Eric Kaplan, a comedy writer (Futurama, Big Bang Theory) and doctor of philosophy, and Taylor Carman (Barnard College, Columbia University), a philosophy professor specializing in phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics, host a podcast that addresses unsettling…
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53. Should We Fear Death? (opens the original)
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Eric and Taylor talk about death and whether we ought be afraid of it. In this episode Taylor speaks partly from personal experience because a few years ago he had a mild brush with death. He did not die, however, which he and Eric agree was a good thing. They also agree that death is, if nothing else, uncanny.
50. Have We Forgotten Being? (opens the original)
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Have we forgotten what it means to be? Is the history of being a history of our becoming oblivious to it? Does being even have a history? Taylor and Eric discuss these terrible, wondrous, “rich and strange” subjects in anticipation of the publication of Taylor's forthcoming book, Heidegger and the History of Being.
49. Are We Insects or Angels or Both? (opens the original)
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Are we puny and wretched or divine and transcendent? Or are we both? According to the great French mathematician, inventor, and religious thinker Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), yes. This week Eric and Taylor contemplate Pascal's proto-existentialist account of the human condition and its possible relevance to Taoism, evolution, AI, language, and (maybe) the religious practices of elephants.
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