The Wisdom Of

In this podcast we explore great works of philosophy and literature and art, and try to pull out of them what’s most interesting and inspiring! Whether they come from the works of Plato, or Dostoevsky or Picasso, here we explore ideas that move mountains and rock the soul! So, come join us, won’t you? Come worship at the alter of ideas, and come celebrate the dancing of thought. Welcome to the Wisdom Of! 

Astrology - What's up with that?
Jun 12, 2025 – 14:44
Jesus and Rousseau on Hypocrisy!
Jun 9, 2025 – 14:56
Will Durant - The top ten greatest thinkers of all time!
Jun 3, 2025 – 21:07
Henri Bergson - Overcoming the tyranny of mechanical time!
May 30, 2025 – 17:18
Greek tragedy, Pollution and AI! + announcement!
May 25, 2025 – 14:48
If I could time travel....Cafe, Paris, 1940's!
May 20, 2025 – 17:29
Dylan Thomas' Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night - Don't surrender the flame!
May 16, 2025 – 15:55
Kafka's A Hunger Artist - The Death of Uncompromising Art!
May 16, 2025 – 14:56
Naomi Klein - The Apocalypse, Mars, and the Bunker Nation!
May 10, 2025 – 16:59
Why We Can't Avoid Making JUDGMENTS—And Why That's a Great Thing!
May 8, 2025 – 14:14
Adorno on Animals - "The degradation of a creature to the status of a mere thing"
May 6, 2025 – 15:15
Humour as Social Critique - Let's keep LAUGHING at POWER!
May 4, 2025 – 15:48
Tolstoy vs. Dostoevsky - Some major DIFFERENCES!
Apr 30, 2025 – 17:51
Miles Davis - Why LESS IS MORE!
Apr 30, 2025 – 14:21
Heidegger - The death of the LOVE LETTER in the time of the digital message!
Apr 30, 2025 – 14:08
Buddhism and NON-ATTACHMENT - Some Objections!
Apr 20, 2025 – 16:20
Byung-Chul Han and Plato on the POWER of BEAUTY!
Apr 15, 2025 – 11:20
What does it mean to be a GOOD FATHER?
Apr 15, 2025 – 14:15
Foucault and Kierkegaard - Where the heck has YOUTHFUL REBELLION gone?
Apr 10, 2025 – 19:22
Simone De Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt - A Happiness of ENGAGEMENT!
Apr 5, 2025 – 13:15
Socrates - Power and Stupidity: A Destructive Combination!
Apr 5, 2025 – 13:50
Pascal and Kierkegaard on the SUPERFICIAL LIFE - Owning up to one's SELF!
Apr 1, 2025 – 14:42
Why Plato wrote dialogues - Let's bring back the power of real conversation!
Mar 30, 2025 – 13:35
The Myth of Icarus and Daedalus - Melting the wings of our children!
Mar 25, 2025 – 19:26
Nietzsche - DECADENT Culture!
Mar 19, 2025 – 12:23
Erich Fromm - Submission to Authoritarianism!
Mar 14, 2025 – 19:20
Carl Jung - UFOs and their PSYCHIC SIGNIFICANCE!
Mar 9, 2025 – 13:32
Camus's The Rebel - Helping us to find MEASURE in a time of EXTREMES!
Mar 3, 2025 – 14:47
The Cult of Personality and CEO worship!
Feb 25, 2025 – 15:08
Kierkegaard - We've forgotten how to exist! Passion in the age of apathy!
Feb 19, 2025 – 13:09
Dostoevsky - Kiss the earth! Why the soil matters!
Feb 13, 2025 – 15:09
Byung-Chul Han and Aristotle - Why real friends shouldn't be afraid of conflict!
Feb 7, 2025 – 15:12
What time is it? - Chronos vs. Kairos!
Feb 3, 2025 – 14:29
The Beat Writers - If it ain't got that swing, it don't mean a thing!
Feb 3, 2025 – 20:52
Why the death of Socrates matters!
Jan 17, 2025 – 21:49
Selflessness as the antidote to death!
Jan 8, 2025 – 15:36
Kant's "What is Enlightenment?" - Emancipate your thinking!
Jan 2, 2025 – 13:13
The Delphic Injunction - KNOW THYSELF!
Dec 28, 2024 – 16:34
Bertrand Russell - Why I am not a Christian
Dec 19, 2024 – 22:27
Dostoevsky and Heidegger - How to escape the algorithm!
Dec 11, 2024 – 17:39
Cormac McCarthy's The Road - Each the other's world entire!
Dec 5, 2024 – 33:48
Byung-Chul Han and Gabriel Marcel on Hope!
Nov 25, 2024 – 18:15
Selfies and Existentialism!
Nov 18, 2024 – 15:43
What the heck happened to integrity and character?!
Nov 13, 2024 – 19:28
Marinetti and Futurism - Welcome to the machine!
Nov 7, 2024 – 20:31
The lost art of reading! And why reading makes us truly happy!
Oct 29, 2024 – 23:27
The problem with lying and liars!
Oct 19, 2024 – 16:32
Why the existentialists hate the bourgeois!
Oct 13, 2024 – 14:38
Aristotle, Leisure and AI - Outsourcing our humanity!
Oct 4, 2024 – 18:30
Freud, the Uncanny and AI!
Sep 29, 2024 – 16:26

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For many years the quote, “An unexamined life is not worth living.” has haunted me. I’ve always been just too lazy to give it much thought. Thanks to The Wisdom Of … I have been giving attention to an important part of my life. Me, and all of the many layers that me is composed of, good and bad. I’m almost 70 making me an old dog but this podcast is teaching me some invaluable tricks. It has been a very positive experience.