Episode 217: Discussing Calderón's "Life Is a Dream"
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2019
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
On the 1636 comedy by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, considering destiny (Christian vs. Ancient Greek), skepticism, meta-theater, and the ethic of honor. Listen to our performance first. With guests Bill Youmans and Erica Spyres.
End song: "Pulling Apart" by Jonathan Segel. Hear him on Nakedly Examined Music #38.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who at one point |
| 0:11.5 | said on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it. |
| 0:14.2 | Our question for episode 217 is something like, is our fate to determine, or should skepticism |
| 0:20.5 | about the world make us more moral? |
| 0:22.7 | We read Life is a Dream, aka La Vida Esueno, played by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, from |
| 0:29.4 | 1635 or 36. |
| 0:32.5 | To listen to our full audio performance of that play and get other information, please visit |
| 0:36.0 | partiallyexaminedlife.com. |
| 0:38.3 | This is Mark Linton-Meyer, about whom a no-proficie dares to speak in medicine, Wisconsin. |
| 0:43.2 | This is Wes Alwin, paying my dues for the crime of being born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 0:49.1 | This is Dylan Casey, dampen wet in a dungeon in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:54.3 | This is Bill Humans dreaming my life away in New York City. |
| 0:59.0 | This is Erica Spires, living my hillbilly dreams in New York City. |
| 1:05.4 | Bill and Erica, so glad to have you join us this time. |
| 1:08.4 | We didn't get you for a Liza Stradas, so you're veterans, you're veteran PEL players. |
| 1:12.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.0 | It's like on Carson being summoned over to the chair. |
| 1:17.6 | It's exactly like that. |
| 1:19.3 | Well, I gotta say, I think I get the most hits on my name from that Liza Stradas podcast. |
| 1:25.1 | You guys are doing well, or I don't know what's going on with my career, but my name always |
| 1:31.0 | comes up when partiallyexaminedlife comes up. |
| 1:33.6 | Awesome. |
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