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MoFo goes whack-a-mole as thoughts wax irrepressible in this whacky episode.
Episode 15 - Time: Part 1
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What is time? MoFo knows until you ask him. So, we listen to Augustine, Lakoff & Johnson, and Douglas Rushkoff of the Team Human Podcast write about it instead. “Seeing Double” by Larry May and Larry Fike.
Episode 14 - Human Flourishing: Plato and Aristotle
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Episode 8 - The Misery of Tyrants: Plato's Republic, Book IX
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“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” -Eleanor Roosevelt. MoFo allows Plato to fill his mental content and speak to us today about the psychological origins of tyranny. Written in 380 BCE, you the listener can judge the relevance of its psychological pronouncements for the twenty-first century.
Episode 2 - Human Flourishing, Aristotelian-Style
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“How are you? I’m good.” Why do we begin conversations this way? Are we all, as a species, striving to be good? Are we cooperative well-wishers, and is this a part of our biology? Aristotle thought he knew, and therapists seem to think that they do, too. Maybe it “takes an internet” to maximize human flourishing. So join the conversation!
[‘Casuistry’ was misspelled during the broadcast, and it means: the resolving of moral problems by application of theoretical rules to particular instances.]
Episode 1 - What the heck am I, or are we, doing here?
Fike introduces his new podcast: Is this even a good idea? What’s its purpose? What is “MoFo”? Should we live in our vehicles and stop paying rent? Everybody loves to talk about the importance of critical thinking, but what is it?
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