Episode 222: Choosing Sartre for All Mankind
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
David and Tamler don black turtlenecks and light up a couple of Gauloises to talk about Jean Paul Sartre's classic essay “Existentialism is a Humanism.” Why are choices so fundamental to our experience? What does Sartre mean when he says that “existence precedes essence”? Why does he try to shoehorn universalizability into a view that’s clearly hostile to it?
Plus, how much free time is good for you? Is that even the right question?
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Links:
- Too Much Free Time Isn’t Actually Bad For You
- Sharif, M. A., Mogilner, C., & Hershfield, H. E. (2021). Having too little or too much time is linked to lower subjective well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Jean-Paul Sartre - Wikipedia
- Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Thrownness - Wikipedia
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:05.9 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
| 0:09.4 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:17.4 | Existentialism is often discussed as if it's a philosophy of despair. |
| 0:21.9 | But I think the truth is just the opposite. |
| 0:23.7 | Sart once interviewed said he never really felt a day of despair in his life. |
| 0:29.8 | But one thing that comes out from reading these guys is a real kind of exuberance. |
| 0:33.9 | It's like your life is yours to create. |
| 1:04.7 | They think they've lost and with no more brains than you have. |
| 1:08.8 | They knew our attention! |
| 1:10.7 | Come on, man! |
| 1:14.9 | Anybody can have a brain? |
| 1:18.9 | You're a very bad man! |
| 1:21.4 | And a very good man. |
| 1:23.2 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:26.4 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
| 1:27.6 | I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:30.2 | Dave Helen Pluckrose has started an organization called Counterweight, |
| 1:35.2 | a support group for people who feel like they're being coerced by their employers |
| 1:40.0 | to espouse woke beliefs. |
| 1:42.3 | Have you joined yet? |
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