# Philosophize This!

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Official site: http://www.philosophizethis.org
Author: Stephen West
Episodes: 249

## Resource

Beginner friendly if listened to in order! For anyone interested in an educational podcast about philosophy where you don't need to be a graduate-level philosopher to understand it. In chronological order, the thinkers and ideas that forged the world we live in are broken down and explained.

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## Episodes
- [Episode #249 ... The Trap of Modern Cynicism - Peter Sloterdijk](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-249-the-trap-of-modern-cynicism-peter-sloterdijk) — 2026-06-27T18:47:00+00:00
- [Episode #248 ... What philosophers say about lying.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-248-what-philosophers-say-about-lying) — 2026-05-31T15:31:00+00:00
- [Episode #247 ... The Failure of the Modern University - Alasdair MacIntyre](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-247-the-failure-of-the-modern-university-alasdair-macintyre) — 2026-05-10T17:13:00+00:00
- [Episode #246 ... The Myth of the Self-Made Person - Alasdair Macintyre](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-246-the-myth-of-the-self-made-person-alasdair-macintyre) — 2026-04-26T17:24:00+00:00
- [Episode #245 ... The Rival Moral Approaches of the Modern World - Alasdair Macintyre](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-245-the-rival-moral-approaches-of-the-modern-world-alasdair-macintyre) — 2026-04-12T15:08:00+00:00
- [Episode #244 ... After Virtue - Alasdair MacIntyre (why moral conversations feel unsatisfying)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-244-after-virtue-alasdair-macintyre-why-moral-conversations-feel-unsatisfying) — 2026-02-11T23:21:00+00:00
- [Episode #243 ... Hamlet - William Shakespeare](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-243-hamlet-william-shakespeare) — 2025-12-27T00:43:00+00:00
- [Episode #242 ... Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-242-romeo-and-juliet-william-shakespeare) — 2025-11-29T15:26:00+00:00
- [Episode #241 ... The Tragedy of Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-241-the-tragedy-of-julius-caesar-william-shakespeare) — 2025-11-16T21:47:00+00:00
- [Episode #240 ... Varieties of Religion Today (Charles Taylor)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-240-varieties-of-religion-today-charles-taylor) — 2025-11-08T22:45:00+00:00
- [Episode #239 ... Authenticity and the history of the self.  (Charles Taylor)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-239-authenticity-and-the-history-of-the-self-charles-taylor) — 2025-10-17T20:11:00+00:00
- [Episode #238 ... Frankenstein - Mary Shelley](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-238-frankenstein-mary-shelley) — 2025-10-08T14:52:00+00:00
- [Episode #237 ... The Stoics Are Wrong - Nietzsche, Schopenhauer](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-237-the-stoics-are-wrong-nietzsche-schopenhauer) — 2025-09-30T21:01:00+00:00
- [Episode #236 ... Meditations - Marcus Aurelius](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-236-meditations-marcus-aurelius) — 2025-09-13T01:41:00+00:00
- [Episode #235 ... The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism - Byung Chul Han](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-235-the-philosophy-of-zen-buddhism-byung-chul-han) — 2025-09-04T00:33:00+00:00
- [Episode #234 ... The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-234-the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-milan-kundera) — 2025-08-13T13:57:00+00:00
- [Episode #233 ... A philosophy of self-destruction. (Dostoevsky, Bataille)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-233-a-philosophy-of-self-destruction-dostoevsky-bataille) — 2025-08-04T16:01:00+00:00
- [Episode #232 ... Byung Chul Han - The Crisis of Narration](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-232-byung-chul-han-the-crisis-of-narration) — 2025-07-07T20:50:00+00:00
- [Episode #231 ... The Late Work of Wittgenstein - Language Games](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-231-the-late-work-of-wittgenstein-language-games) — 2025-06-28T22:53:00+00:00
- [Episode #230 ... Hope as an Existentialism (Ernst Bloch)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-230-hope-as-an-existentialism-ernst-bloch) — 2025-06-14T23:51:00+00:00
- [Episode #229 - Kafka and Totalitarianism (Arendt, Adorno)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-229-kafka-and-totalitarianism-arendt-adorno) — 2025-05-25T00:01:00+00:00
- [Episode #228 ... Albert Camus - Kafka and The Fall](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-228-albert-camus-kafka-and-the-fall) — 2025-05-12T13:26:00+00:00
- [Episode #227 ... Albert Camus - On Exile](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-227-albert-camus-on-exile) — 2025-04-18T14:11:00+00:00
- [Episode #226 - Albert Camus - The Rebel](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-226-albert-camus-the-rebel) — 2025-04-04T14:51:00+00:00
- [Episode #225 ... Albert Camus - The Plague](https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophize-this-757675/episode-225-albert-camus-the-plague) — 2025-03-27T18:38:00+00:00

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