PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap w/ Chris Sunami (March 2024)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Mark, Seth, and Dylan are joined by the editor of our new book (see partiallyexaminedlife.com/book) to talk a bit about his background, meeting celebrities (or being met qua celebrity) and more generally how a writer or performer's real personality relates to their work, various things we're reading and watching, scientists' attitudes towards philosophy, and the usual musings about future episodes.
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to hear a preview of partially examined life supporter exclusive content. |
| 0:10.4 | To learn how to get the whole thing, check out partially examined life.com. |
| 0:14.0 | S. Support. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, it's the partially examined life. We're doing a little nightcap discussion |
| 0:21.0 | with a special guest, Chris introduce yourself. |
| 0:25.0 | My name is Chris Tsunami. I'm an amateur philosopher from Columbus, Ohio. |
| 0:30.0 | Somebody who has been kind of peripherally associated with the pelting for a little while. |
| 0:36.0 | I did some content writing for the blog a few years ago and I'm also currently working on the long-awaited book project with the Pell team. |
| 0:46.0 | Yes, we will talk much more about the book on another meeting that West shows up to. |
| 0:52.0 | But today, it's just me and you and hey, hey Seth. |
| 0:56.7 | Hi, how are you? Good, hey Dylan. |
| 0:59.3 | Hey, everybody. And we thought we'd just talk informally. |
| 1:03.0 | Chris, what's your center, I know you've been on pretty much pop a couple times, but I don't, |
| 1:08.0 | we've never actually had you on a philosophy per se discussion. |
| 1:12.0 | What is your central interest as reflected in some of the things |
| 1:15.6 | that you picked out for the book as editor probably social and political I'm |
| 1:21.9 | really interested in what decisions we make. I'm definitely |
| 1:26.1 | sort of old school more on the metaphysical mystical side of things which I know is not not in vogue in modern philosophy at all but I have a real |
| 1:36.8 | appreciation for some of the older traditions so the ancient Greek so the ancient Chinese and |
| 1:42.0 | just some of the other traditions I like the big questions you |
| 1:45.4 | know meaning of life type things less interested in sort of the really detail |
| 1:49.3 | oriented philosophy. You'll enjoy our Aristotle sequence then that we're in the middle of right now. |
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