9 episodes

A philosophy scholar and a philosophy newcomer discuss and breakdown philosophy in an effort to make the study more accessible.

A Discourse About Nothing Pierce Marks

    • Society & Culture

A philosophy scholar and a philosophy newcomer discuss and breakdown philosophy in an effort to make the study more accessible.

    Episode 9: The Culture War is a Lie

    Episode 9: The Culture War is a Lie

    Pierce and Matt try to make sense of the current state of the culture war.

    • 1 hr 59 min
    Episode 8: How Coronavirus Made Me Realize I’m a Jerk (and that I need a new moral paradigm)

    Episode 8: How Coronavirus Made Me Realize I’m a Jerk (and that I need a new moral paradigm)

    Pierce is back to scold you! Danny is on for the first time! I haven’t been outside in a month! Show-notes Overall Point: Our way of seeing the world and considering our place in it is selfish, naive and disconnected from reality. Details of how we see the world: (1) My assuming that I have […]

    • 49 min
    Episode 7.5: A Response to Very Bad Wizards on Ecclesiastes

    Episode 7.5: A Response to Very Bad Wizards on Ecclesiastes

    In this mini-episode, Pierce solves a murder, and responds to some other dudes on their angsty interpretation of Ecclesiastes. (Picture: Albrecht Durer’s “Knight, Death and the Devil.”) Very Bad Wizards (Podcast)

    • 22 min
    Episode 7: The Meaning of Life and Intrinsic Value

    Episode 7: The Meaning of Life and Intrinsic Value

    Pull up a chair, and shut your mouth while Pierce once again lectures you about morality, religion and Jordan Peterson. Listener BEWARE! (Picture: Young William James looking pretty sick.) Sources: Wolf, Susan. “Meaningfulness: A Third Dimension of the Good Life” Scruton, Roger. “Of Beauty and Consolation.” Peterson, Goldstein and Craig on the Meaning of Life […]

    • 45 min
    Episode 6: Thoughts on Jordan Peterson

    Episode 6: Thoughts on Jordan Peterson

    Pierce and Matt pull themselves up by their bootstraps, get high and tight fades, and talk about the internet’s favorite frog, Jordan Peterson. Sources: Cathy Newman Interview Jordan Peterson on the “Left Wingers Going Too Far” Peterson and Scruton on the Transcendent Peterson, Goldstein and Craig on the Meaning of Life

    • 1 hr 8 min
    Episode 5: Serenity and Serenity

    Episode 5: Serenity and Serenity

    Pierce and Matt analyze the character, Malcolm Reynolds, from Firefly and Serenity.

    • 51 min

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