Daily 15: Philosophy to Welcome the Day

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English Philosophy Society & Culture

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Episodes 16

Avg. Duration 15m

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Since Jul 2025

Latest Episode Aug 2025

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About This Podcast

A deep and thoughtful life is a life well lived. Explore philosophy, and think in the company of others. Our podcast is simple. Each episode, we 'zoom in' to two paragraphs from a philosophical work. It could be anything: From Plato, to Freud, to Homer, to Proust! Our goal is to give you the tools to think about the paragraph and ideas yourself, to de-ivory-tower-ify it, rather than provide a simple summary. Think of it like a morning mental workout. New episodes every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday.

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Recent Episodes

Kant on Respect for the (Moral) Law

Aug 20, 2025 15m

Today’s excerpt comes from Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Kant distinguishes acting from duty (from respect for the moral law) from acting merely in accordance with duty out of…

Stocker on Ethical Schizophrenia

Aug 13, 2025 14m

Today's excerpt comes from a paper titled ‘The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories’ by Michael Stocker. One quick correction: though Socrates famously denies one can do what he knows to be…

Cora Diamond on the Ethics of Vegetarianism

Aug 08, 2025 16m

Today's excerpt comes from a paper in which Cora Diamond explores an argument often heard in conversations about vegetarianism: the charge of speciesism. She pushes back on its success as an argument…

Williams on One Thought Too Many

Aug 06, 2025 19m

Today's excerpt is a follow up from Williams’ Persons, Character, and Morality. Here, he discusses how moral thinking – thinking about moral theories and ideas – is supposed to figure into our…

Williams on Categorical Desires

Aug 02, 2025 14m

Today's excerpt comes from Bernard Williams' paper, Persons, Character, and Morality. Williams discusses why, if at all, we ought to fear death and what this means for our conception of…

Wittgenstein on Experience and Forms of Life

Aug 01, 2025 14m

Today's excerpt comes from the very beginning of Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Psychology -- A Fragment. Wittgenstein explores the complexities in our application of terms like 'hope' or 'grief' --…

Strawson on Resentment

Jul 30, 2025 16m

Today's excerpt comes from an essay called Freedom and Resentment. Philosopher P.F. Strawson explores a chestnut of a philosophical question – the debate over free will. But he comes at it from a…

Williams on Self-Indulgence

Jul 26, 2025 16m

Today's excerpt comes from a paper by Bernard Williams, in which he explores the charge that we sometime levy upon people who refuse to do something because they find it “morally distasteful." Are…

Freud on Transience and Beauty

Jul 25, 2025 15m

In this episode, "Freud on Transience," we look at a thoughtful piece Freud wrote just after World War I. He's wrestling with something we've all felt - why does knowing something beautiful won't…

S1E7 Socrates on the Nature of Love and Desire

Jul 23, 2025 13m

In todays excerpt, we turn to one of Plato's most famous dialogues: the Symposium. Specifically, we look at an exchange between Socrates and Agathon. Socrates discusses the nature of desire with…

Vida Yao on Eros and Anxiety

Jul 19, 2025 18m

Today's excerpt comes from a recently published paper, titled Eros and Anxiety, by Professor Vida Yao. The paper explores ideals of rationality, authenticity, and how they interact with…

Wittgenstein on Knowing and Doubting

Jul 18, 2025 17m

Today’s excerpt comes from §92-94 of Wittgenstein’s ‘On Certainty.’ In it, Wittgenstein explores the difference between normal, every-day, beliefs – like “the bus is going to get here at 2:30pm” –…

S1E4 Thoreau on Walking

Jul 16, 2025 15m

Today's excerpt comes from a lecture written by Henry David Thoreau, titled walking. The lecture itself is a sort of walk, meandering and sauntering around.Read it yourself at…

S1E3 Freud on Slips of the Tongue

Jul 12, 2025 16m

Today's Daily 15 is an excursion into one of Freud's first introductory lectures on psychoanalysis. In the lecture, Freud asks whether slips of the tongue, misplacements, or seemingly random…

S1E2 Sartre On the Nature of Reflective Consciousness

Jul 11, 2025 16m

Today's excerpt comes from the introduction of Jean-Paul Sartre's seminal work, Being and Nothingness. In this episode, we delve into Sartre's exploration of reflective consciousness and its…

S1E1 Proust on Habit and Memory

Jul 09, 2025 20m

Today’s episode delves into the intricate relationship between habit, memory, and love as explored by Marcel Proust in his monumental work, In Search of Lost Time. Lucas guides us through a profound…

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