Episode_001_Ionian_PreSocratic_Philosophy

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   Глава 1: Hello, everyone. 299s · Speaker 1

   Hello, everyone. I'm Stephen West, and this is the Philosophize This podcast. The first episode of this show was released on June 6th of 2013, and it was the first creative thing I ever uttered into a microphone in my entire life. Now, need…

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   Глава 2: the world -famous intercontinental ice bridge to Alaska. 223s · Speaker 1

   the world -famous intercontinental ice bridge to Alaska. Then they stopped by Sarah Palin's house for a few days and eventually made their way down to South America where the Incans and Mayans eventually cropped up. But try to imagine being…

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   Глава 3: Now, Western philosophy begins in two geographic areas that are actually right next to each other. 300s · Speaker 2

   Now, Western philosophy begins in two geographic areas that are actually right next to each other. Do you remember that fork in the road we were talking about at the Fertile Crescent? Well, one of those paths goes westward on that fork. And…

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   Глава 4: and then the next chunk would be post -Aristotle to the medieval period, etc. 302s · Speaker 2

   and then the next chunk would be post -Aristotle to the medieval period, etc. I mean, it just makes it a lot easier. But just as long as we keep in mind that we're categorizing them, not because they're inferior to Socrates in any way, but …

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   Глава 5: And for all intents and purposes, this was the Bible of everyone living at the time. 300s · Speaker 2

   And for all intents and purposes, this was the Bible of everyone living at the time. It explained the origins of the gods, the origins of man. It gave explanations for tons of everyday things like earthquakes, thunder, lightning. Apparently…

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   Глава 6: right? How did we even survive into maturity in the first place? 300s · Speaker 1

   right? How did we even survive into maturity in the first place? I mean, if we were babies, how did we... How do we take care of ourself? He concluded that the only way this could have happened is if the first human beings lived in the bell…

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   Глава 7: him to be this immensely intelligent person and begged him to write laws for the city so that things would be better, he just looks at them and goes, you wretches what are you wondering at is it not better to do this than to meddle with public affairs in your company he was mean man he was like scrooge but unlike scrooge he didn't have billions of dollars in dirty money to buy tiny tim a prosthetic leg at the end of the book so he didn't even have a redeeming quality he compared everyone around him with people that were in a deep sleep or drunk he said people are like children and their opinions are like their toys There's a story about him that takes place when he's an old, old man on death's doorstep, plagued by a condition called edema, where the body retains excess fluids. 71s · Speaker 1

   him to be this immensely intelligent person and begged him to write laws for the city so that things would be better, he just looks at them and goes, you wretches what are you wondering at is it not better to do this than to meddle with pub…

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   Глава 8: bury himself up to his neck in cow manure, and just sit in the sun. 299s · Speaker 2

   bury himself up to his neck in cow manure, and just sit in the sun. I'm not joking. Yeah, he did it. His thinking was the sun would heat up the manure to the point that it would extract all the excess liquid from his system. Long story shor…

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   Глава 9: But one of the very few followers of Heraclitus, his name was Cratylus, and he took this flux theory that we just talked about that Heraclitus had come up with, and he created this super extreme version of it that didn't actually make any sense and was pretty ridiculous, but. 99s · Speaker 1

   But one of the very few followers of Heraclitus, his name was Cratylus, and he took this flux theory that we just talked about that Heraclitus had come up with, and he created this super extreme version of it that didn't actually make any s…

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    Глава 10: I mean, he really is a great example of the ability of long -forgotten or long -denounced philosophical views that are way ahead of their time to have kind of a resurgency once science catches up to philosophy. 300s · Speaker 2

    I mean, he really is a great example of the ability of long -forgotten or long -denounced philosophical views that are way ahead of their time to have kind of a resurgency once science catches up to philosophy. Because from 470 BC all the w…

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    Глава 11: and no empty space inside. 302s · Speaker 1

    and no empty space inside. If any of this is confusing, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Next episode, we're going to focus on Parmenides very seriously. But just real quick, if there's another line of thinking that their theory was infl…

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    Глава 12: Secondly, maybe you're saying, ah, he said these particles are uncuttable, and didn't we cut open the atom in 1932 famously? 154s · Speaker 1

    Secondly, maybe you're saying, ah, he said these particles are uncuttable, and didn't we cut open the atom in 1932 famously? Yes, you're right, guy. But we also named that particle the atom. The only thing that means is that we were idiots …