# Philosophize This!

A podcast by Stephen West. Beginner friendly if listened to in order! For anyone interested in an educational podcast about philosophy where you don't need to be a graduate-level philosopher to understand it. In chronological order, the thinkers and ideas that forged the world we live in are broken down and explained.

Feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/QCD6036500916

## Latest episodes

- [Episode #253 ... The Philosophy of Alan Watts - What Am I?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/a348d5f443b8) (2026-10-27, 36 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/ARML6307337959.mp3
- [Episode #252 ... Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/a542675b1c83) (2026-08-29, 35 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV2856688536.mp3
- [Episode #251 ... You Must Change Your Life, Pt. 2 - The Worlds That Make Us](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/a75ab0a83668) (2026-08-08, 36 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV2834643555.mp3
- [Episode #250 ... You Must Change Your Life. - Peter Sloterdijk](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/7727c205333c) (2026-07-14, 36 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV9033477570.mp3
- [Episode #249 ... The Trap of Modern Cynicism - Peter Sloterdijk](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/8df2a2b8986a) (2026-06-27, 35 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV9279428767.mp3
- [Episode #248 ... What philosophers say about lying.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/cefadbab6c30) (2026-05-31, 37 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD7582110057.mp3
- [Episode #247 ... The Failure of the Modern University - Alasdair MacIntyre](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/9ea207d1fbc4) (2026-05-10, 29 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD2057077498.mp3
- [Episode #246 ... The Myth of the Self-Made Person - Alasdair Macintyre](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/194f3d5fc618) (2026-04-26, 33 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD8919213610.mp3
- [Episode #245 ... The Rival Moral Approaches of the Modern World - Alasdair Macintyre](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/43bc9d4209cb) (2026-04-12, 33 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD6327901023.mp3
- [Episode #244 ... After Virtue - Alasdair MacIntyre (why moral conversations feel unsatisfying)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/4eb0f17f2298) (2026-02-11, 37 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD4165347687.mp3
- [Episode #243 ... Hamlet - William Shakespeare](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/285c0ef0151d) (2025-12-27, 31 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD2253661774.mp3
- [Episode #242 ... Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/ca747f6392b4) (2025-11-29, 31 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD2458974739.mp3?updated=1769467952
- [Episode #241 ... The Tragedy of Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/0486fce435c3) (2025-11-16, 30 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD1169671275.mp3?updated=1769468099
- [Episode #240 ... Varieties of Religion Today (Charles Taylor)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/e33b64c7f63a) (2025-11-08, 30 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD5390247006.mp3?updated=1769468250
- [Episode #239 ... Authenticity and the history of the self. (Charles Taylor)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/341f2ab7c23f) (2025-10-17, 35 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD9899670419.mp3?updated=1769468144
- [Episode #238 ... Frankenstein - Mary Shelley](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/aa03d82ce3a5) (2025-10-08, 30 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD4432845190.mp3?updated=1769468234
- [Episode #237 ... The Stoics Are Wrong - Nietzsche, Schopenhauer](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/8d82534ec2c4) (2025-09-30, 29 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD8116622269.mp3?updated=1769468232
- [Episode #236 ... Meditations - Marcus Aurelius](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/dd6f4a0557b3) (2025-09-13, 35 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD9728752141.mp3?updated=1769468362
- [Episode #235 ... The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism - Byung Chul Han](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/0613f8ac4ebf) (2025-09-04, 38 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD2170943726.mp3?updated=1769468400
- [Episode #234 ... The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/c32dcf49c0a6) (2025-08-13, 33 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD6276520525.mp3?updated=1769468507
- [Episode #233 ... A philosophy of self-destruction. (Dostoevsky, Bataille)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/3dc360fb54da) (2025-08-04, 31 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD5177535878.mp3?updated=1769468534
- [Episode #232 ... Byung Chul Han - The Crisis of Narration](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/f8b4d4b81ac8) (2025-07-07, 30 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD7147372675.mp3?updated=1769468507
- [Episode #231 ... The Late Work of Wittgenstein - Language Games](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/6084a6e46b32) (2025-06-28, 27 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD1501325299.mp3?updated=1769468510
- [Episode #230 ... Hope as an Existentialism (Ernst Bloch)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/364c3d8c717f) (2025-06-14, 29 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD8958930441.mp3?updated=1769468593
- [Episode #229 - Kafka and Totalitarianism (Arendt, Adorno)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/2f72aa6313de) (2025-05-25, 29 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD6866712365.mp3?updated=1769468647
- [Episode #228 ... Albert Camus - Kafka and The Fall](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/32a7e65620a5) (2025-05-12, 31 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD9553202597.mp3?updated=1769468755
- [Episode #227 ... Albert Camus - On Exile](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/5eddb4b9aaef) (2025-04-18, 35 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD3902652168.mp3?updated=1769468785
- [Episode #226 - Albert Camus - The Rebel](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/d3730f534d74) (2025-04-04, 32 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD2783113528.mp3?updated=1769471806
- [Episode #225 ... Albert Camus - The Plague](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/4dbb98a24036) (2025-03-27, 31 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD5438796944.mp3?updated=1762208069
- [Episode #224 ... Albert Camus - The Stranger](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/d187cc8cf457) (2025-03-15, 29 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD9704062397.mp3?updated=1762208147
- [Episode #223 ... Religion and the duck-rabbit - Kyoto School pt. 3](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/7cc619d58c4b) (2025-03-03, 34 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD4382370809.mp3?updated=1762208930
- [Episode #222 ... Dostoevsky - Love in The Brothers Karamazov](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/5d1109f34519) (2025-02-16, 39 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD1449184136.mp3?updated=1765396907
- [Episode #221 ... Dostoevsky - The Idiot](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/7aaca5874314) (2025-02-01, 36 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD2409467127.mp3?updated=1765397068
- [Episode #220 ... Dostoevsky - Demons](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/597f45f11b18) (2025-01-13, 39 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD7135274396.mp3?updated=1765397104
- [Episode #219 ... Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/81eb228ed82d) (2024-12-23, 33 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD3039966915.mp3?updated=1765397370
- [Episode #218 ... Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/f8466b7642ef) (2024-12-17, 34 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD3197929520.mp3?updated=1765398103
- [Episode #217 ... Religion and Nothingness - Kyoto School pt. 2 - Nishitani](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/8ee26626beba) (2024-12-06, 45 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD7090472375.mp3?updated=1765399957
- [Episode #216 ... The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism - Kyoto School pt. 1 - Nishitani](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/2837c76c67da) (2024-11-18, 35 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD7181111389.mp3?updated=1765400067
- [Episode #215 ... How Mysticism is missing in our modern lives. (Critchley, Heidegger)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/f52efe3554dc) (2024-10-30, 32 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD3604584149.mp3?updated=1730319539
- [Episode #214 ... Framing our Being in a completely different way. (Heidegger)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/b322a0f085cb) (2024-10-21, 38 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD6146074300.mp3?updated=1729521952
- [Episode #213 ... Deleuze Interprets Nietzsche (Difference, Joy, Affirmation)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/f0543080b63d) (2024-10-13, 38 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD9127427381.mp3?updated=1728840801
- [Episode #212 ... Nietzsche and Critchley on the tragic perspective. (Amor Fati pt. 2)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/1d828515449e) (2024-09-30, 39 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD5035862236.mp3?updated=1727723967
- [Episode #211 ... Nietzsche returns with a hammer!](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/e0e08a50fa36) (2024-09-22, 41 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD2751978687.mp3?updated=1727026483
- [Episode #210 ... The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire, Education)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/349e4d87c44a) (2024-09-12, 39 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD1397831169.mp3?updated=1726161626
- [Episode #209 ... Improving our world through applied ethics. (Peter Singer, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/0b630c623bab) (2024-08-26, 37 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD8671415717.mp3?updated=1724655130
- [Episode #208 ... The moral evolution of a philosopher. (Peter Singer)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/b2dccfb9f48d) (2024-08-18, 45 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD2421017043.mp3?updated=1724005608
- [Episode #207 ... Fear is toxic to a democracy. (Martha Nussbaum)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/f71eec3e6468) (2024-08-01, 36 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD8010195253.mp3?updated=1722486117
- [Episode #206 ... Capitalism is dead. This is Technofeudalism. (Yanis Varoufakis)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/2c2f5a28090c) (2024-07-21, 38 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD2465603704.mp3?updated=1721537626
- [Episode #205 ... Why a meritocracy is corrosive to society. (Michael Sandel)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/6a77d32070b4) (2024-07-01, 33 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD8966822100.mp3?updated=1719806998
- [Episode #204 ... The importance of philosophy, justice and the common good. (Michael Sandel)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/659155419/3d0254adc8e2) (2024-06-24, 38 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1672/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD3419926792.mp3?updated=1719199959

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