Not School Digest: Asimov, Camus, Jaspers, Brecht, Peirce, Historical Jesus
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2015
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
On Isaac Asimov's "The Last Question," Albert Camus's "The Fall," Karl Jaspers's "Truth and Symbol," C.S. Peirce's "The Fixation of Belief," Bertold Brecht's "Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction," and Thomas Sheehan's Stanford lectures on the Historical Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for listening to this episode of the Partial Exam in Life. |
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| 0:44.3 | You're listening to the Partial Examined Life. |
| 0:46.8 | This is a very special, non-episode where we will present highlights from our not-school |
| 0:52.2 | discussions from the last year or so. |
| 0:54.8 | This is Mark Linsmeyer talking to you from Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:57.1 | And this is Nathan Hanks in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 0:59.9 | Today in the program, we've got six different clips for you. |
| 1:03.0 | We've got a group that I led on Karl Jasper's Truth In Symbol. |
| 1:06.6 | We've got another one that I led on Thomas Sheehan's Stanford Lectures about the historical |
| 1:10.8 | Jesus. |
| 1:11.8 | We've got one from our long-running philosophy and theater group, an essay by the playwright |
| 1:16.0 | Bertolt Brecht about theater for pleasure or theater for instruction. |
| 1:19.4 | We've got one by a new group on Charles Sanders' purses, The Fixation of Belief. |
| 1:23.6 | And we're going to wrap up with one from the Philosophical Fiction Group on Camus the |
| 1:28.8 | Fall. |
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