PEL Presents PvI#46: Seize the Day How Exactly? w/ Nick Riggle
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
What does the shortness of our lives and the beauty of the world actually entail in terms of behavior and philosophy? Nick is a former pro skater who teaches philosophy at U. of San Diego and has written This Beauty about this question.
Mark and Bill engage Nick via car wash planning, the appearance of Bill's imaginary friend, Groundhog Day, and other invitations to awesomeness.
Mark philosophizes at partiallyexaminedlife.com.
Bill improvises (and teaches) at chicagoimprovstudio.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Good Different News, Paul finds Brit's dislike talking about weather. |
| 0:04.8 | Oh, it's raining. |
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| 0:17.2 | Join us next time for more Good News, hopefully. |
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| 0:27.0 | and exclusions apply to see constable, Suzuki.co.uk. |
| 0:30.2 | Hey folks, we have taped the last three episodes in a row of this podcast on video. |
| 0:35.6 | That unedited visual experience is available only to Philosophy Versus Improv supporters via patreon.com slash Philosophy Improv. |
| 0:50.2 | This is Philosophy Versus Improv where two stages try to teach each other a thing or two |
| 0:55.2 | and maybe you the audience get something out of it as well. |
| 0:58.4 | My name is Mark Linton Meyer, a Philosophy Assessor who today is assessing the field of improvisation. |
| 1:04.0 | And I am Bill Arnet, an improv inspector and I will be called to a home of philosophy in which to perform my inspection. |
| 1:15.4 | Hello, I'm Nick Riggle, a Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego. |
| 1:20.6 | I work in mostly aesthetics but aesthetics is very interdisciplinary so I write in philosophy of language, value theory, |
| 1:28.5 | more psychology, all kinds of things. |
| 1:30.9 | Social philosophy more recently and I have a new book out called This Beauty, a Philosophy of Being Alive. |
| 1:39.2 | It's actually not This Beauty, it's This Beauty. |
| 1:42.3 | Yes, it's indexical. |
| 1:44.3 | It's you can say it wrong if you're in the wrong circumstance, especially if it's ugly. |
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