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Philosophize This!

Episode #002 ... Presocratic Philosophy - Italian

Philosophize This!

Stephen West

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.817.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2013

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Today we talk about why philosophy is taken for granted, the crazed cult leader of ancient Greek philosophy, Pythagoras, the annoying dark cloud of deductive reasoning, Parmenides and the super hero Empedocles. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help.  Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis  Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday, and I hope you love the

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Hello, everyone.

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It's Stephen West.

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This is philosophize this.

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What is philosophy?

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You know, there's always a little bit of irony when you ask that question, because it's

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the exact type of question that philosophers ask that's impossible to answer.

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I mean, they do it all the time.

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Just pick some arbitrary thing that nobody really cares about and try to get to the bottom

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of it.

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And it always seems like they're trying to sound like Professor Snape's really pretentious

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