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Descartes I think therefore I am

I Think Therefore I Am: Descartes' Cogito Ergo Sum Explained

5 MIN BREAK

Lucretius - death is nothing to fear

Why Death is Nothing to Fear: Lucretius and Epicureanism

9 MIN BREAK

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Hannah Arendt On Standing Up to the Banality of Evil

4 MIN BREAK

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Thomas Nagel On Why Humor is the Best Response to Life's Absurdity

6 MIN BREAK

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Kierkegaard On Why Busy People Are Ridiculous

3 MIN BREAK

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Why ‘Zombies’ Cause Problems for Brain Science and Consciousness

3 MIN BREAK

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What Happens When Machines Become Smarter than People?

7 MIN BREAK

Bertrand Russell philosophy matters

Bertrand Russell On Why Philosophy Matters

5 MIN BREAK

cucumbers

What is Consciousness?

6 MIN BREAK

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Socrates On What We Know

4 MIN BREAK

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Where Do Morals Come From?

6 MIN BREAK

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How the Languages We Speak Shape Our Realities

4 MIN BREAK

free will illusion

Why You Probably Don't Have Free Will

9 MIN BREAK

Camus Sisyphus absurdity

Camus on Coping with Life's Absurdity

4 MIN BREAK

living in a simulation bostrom

Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?

4 MIN BREAK

Nietzsche perspectivism

Dancing with Nietzsche's Perspectivism

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