The Shawn Ryan Show
Shawn Ryan
Society & Culture
Philosophize This!
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About the show
Beginner friendly if listened to in order! For anyone interested in an educational podcast about philosophy where you don't need to be a graduate-level philosopher to understand it. In chronological order, the thinkers and ideas that forged the world we live in are broken down and explained.
Latest episodes
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Episode #252 ... Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
August 29, 2026 · 35 minToday we talk about Kurt Vonnegut’s book Slaughterhouse-Five. How war stories can distort the reality of war, how trauma can fracture our experience of time and identity, and why Billy Pilgrim becomes attracted to the strange philosophy of…
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Episode #251 ... You Must Change Your Life, Pt. 2 - The Worlds That Make Us
August 8, 2026 · 35 minToday we talk more about Peter Sloterdijk’s book You Must Change Your Life. We talk about Heidegger, the subject-object view of the world, how environments form us, symbolic immunity, modern cynicism, vertical tension, base camps…
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Episode #250 ... You Must Change Your Life. - Peter Sloterdijk
July 14, 2026 · 36 minToday we talk about half of the book You Must Change Your Life by Peter Sloterdijk. From criticism towards views of change that he thinks are far too centered on belief and moral strength, to a reworking of how to view human beings at the…
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Episode #249 ... The Trap of Modern Cynicism - Peter Sloterdijk
June 27, 2026 · 34 minToday we talk about the book Critique of Cynical Reason by Peter Sloterdijk. Cynicism as a defense mechanism. Why the cynic isn't crazy. The way it ladders up into institutions and infects things like our language. Diogenes as a counter…
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Episode #248 ... What philosophers say about lying.
May 31, 2026 · 37 minToday we talk about some of the best arguments for and against lying in the history of philosophy. Hope you love it. :) Sponsor: Nord VPN: https://nordvpn.com/philothis Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your…
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Episode #247 ... The Failure of the Modern University - Alasdair MacIntyre
May 10, 2026 · 29 minToday we talk about some of Macintyre's later work. How he thinks philosophy isn’t optional. It’s already hiding inside everything we do. How he thinks modern universities create experts who know their field but not what their work fully…
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Episode #246 ... The Myth of the Self-Made Person - Alasdair Macintyre
April 26, 2026 · 33 minToday we talk about Macintyre's book Dependent Rational Animals. Hope you love it. :) Sponsors: Nord VPN: https://nordvpn.com/philothis Saily: https://www.saily.com/philothis Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this…
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Episode #245 ... The Rival Moral Approaches of the Modern World - Alasdair Macintyre
April 12, 2026 · 33 minToday we talk about the book Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry by Alasdair Macintyre. We talk about each of the different sets of assumptions people bring to moral debates that often contain the true location of the disagreement. Hope…