W.E.B. Du Bois
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Sociologist, historian, philosopher, editor, writer, and activist, W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the most…
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Kierkegaard
May 7, 2023
Philosophy usually suggests a striving for rationality and objectivity. But the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard…
The Athlete as Philosopher
May 16, 2021
For the ancient Greeks, sport was an integral part of education. Athletic programs remain in…
Extreme Altruism
December 9, 2018
We can all agree that helping others is great, a deed worth doing. But devoting…
John Locke
January 27, 2013
Thomas Jefferson identified John Locke as one of “the three greatest men that have ever…
Kant
June 3, 2007
Immanuel Kant introduced the human mind as an active originator of experience rather than just…
A Philosophical Shout-Out
April 1, 2007
On this special pledge-week episode, John and Ken open the phones and the inbox to…
Wittgenstein
March 4, 2007
The Austrian/British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein exercised enormous influence over philosophy in the middle third of…
Confucius
December 31, 2006
Confucius laid down a pattern of thinking followed by more people for more generations than…
Schopenhauer
September 19, 2006
Arthur Schopenhauer, the great Nineteenth Century philosopher, had a pessimistic vision of the world as…
Plato
September 14, 2004
From his theory of the Forms, to his views about morality, justice, and the soul…
Nietzsche
August 3, 2004
Nietzsche. Ken and John and Übermensch-at-large Brian Leiter discuss everyone’s favorite syphilitic philosopher. Was he…
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