Psychosophia: Recent Episodes

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"Live dangerously" - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

If we were God, we would choose not to be. Because more than pleasure, more than security, what we want is to be heroes. And to achieve this, we must adopt a "dangerous" disposition.

Learn the main idea behind the Hindu Vedanta with a story by Alan Watts; discover epicurean hedonism; Robert Nozick's Experience Machine that will grant you all your wishes; and the most interesting subject in psychology: intersubjectivity - through Sartre's "the other's gaze." All these ideas will help us understand why we long for the heroic, Nietzsche's instruction, and the Will to Power that will help us get it!

... What a predicament we find ourselves in: obsessed with how special we are, trapped in other people's recognition...

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"Question: how can one manage not to lose time? Answer: experience it at its full length." - ALBERT CAMUS, The Plague

If you think it's hard to keep your sanity during a pandemic, in this episode we'll discover that our lives have always been an emergency and that the Apocalypse comes for us every day. Luckily, we'll also find the best defense against it: CARPE DIEM.

We'll start wiTH a thought experiment by Frank Jackson; we'll pass through Horace and the wise words Albert Camus wrote in his, aptly titled, novel "The Plague"; and end up with a particular view of love and life.

🍅 We are all blind neurologists, experts in color vision!

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A brief introduction to the Psychosophia podcast.

"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?" - Thomas Merton

Welcome to the show!

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