Existential Will: Recent Episodes
William Wilczak
Main Interests: Existential philosophy, audiobook recording and sharing, literature, philosophical history, social and political commentary.
5 Classical Liberalism (5/12)
An Introduction To Existentialism is a philosophy essay paired with
Anne-Josèphe: A Stageplay.
4 Asceticism And Resentment (4/12)
An Introduction To Existentialism is a philosophy essay paired with
Anne-Josèphe: A Stageplay.
3 Either/Or (3/12)
An Introduction To Existentialism is a philosophy essay paired with
Anne-Josèphe: A Stageplay.
2 Necessity/Possibility (2/12)
An Introduction To Existentialism is a philosophy essay paired with
Anne-Josèphe: A Stageplay.
1 Existential Philosophy (1/12)
An Introduction To Existentialism is a philosophy essay paired with
Anne-Josèphe: A Stageplay.
Drawing from Existential authors as diverse as Beauvoir, Sartre, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Fanon, Ellison, and Wright, this essay poses concrete, historical, political, scientific, economic, and literary commentary of the present-day. It even invokes Szasz critiquing psychiatry, Husserl's phenomenology, Pascal's Provincial Letters as a Christian polemic against Christian casuists, and the Socratic inquiry as Socrates himself undermined the sophists in his time in Ancient Greece by questioning their ideas.
Politically, this podcast will be wide-ranging in its criticism of natural law, natural rights, naturalistic economics, and natural science as they variously go as far back as Hippias, a sophist, and stoicism. Yet the natural law concept traverses across many centuries to inform the appeals to natural and universal rights during the Enlightenment Age, the age of revolution, and human rights today. A consistent theme among Existential thought happens to be an antagonism towards naturalistic assumptions. It actually follows that they antagonize much of the empirical, mechanical, psychological, and natural sciences....
Episode segments:
0:00
Preliminary statements regarding Existentialism, French Revolution, & Anne-Josèphe
4:43
Consciousness as subjectivity
11:09
Opposing Naturalism & "Common Sense"
18:10
Nietzsche's Mummified Concepts, Nostalgia, & Nihilism
26:02
The Middle-class="the Bourgeoisie" of the French Revolution
27:43
Mark Lilla's Identity Problem vs. Socrates/Kierkegaard's Identity Problem
36:36
Jordan Peterson & Haidt/Lukianoff as Casuistic Assault On Universities