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The Darkest Philosopher Who Ever Lived | Philipp Mainländer
October 8, 2026 · 2 hr 9 minFall asleep to the story of Mainländer, the philosopher who taught that God has died and death is our redemption. In a rented room by a German river, a mild and dutiful bank clerk finished the strangest book of his century, and then…
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Let Go of God to Find God | Meister Eckhart's Complete Philosophy
October 2, 2026 · 2 hr 13 minFall asleep to the medieval mystic who taught ordinary people to pray to be rid of God. At the summit of the medieval Church, a Dominican master who governed dozens of religious houses did something no one of his rank had dared. He…
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Montaigne | He Locked Himself in a Tower and Described Us All
September 27, 2026 · 2 hr 11 minFall asleep to Montaigne, who locked himself in a tower to study one man and quietly described us all. In fifteen seventy-one a French nobleman withdrew from public life to a round library at the top of a stone tower, and there, to tame…
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How to Stay Calm When Fortune Takes Everything | Boethius’s Complete Philosophy
September 23, 2026 · 2 hr 13 minFall asleep to the story of Boethius, the Roman philosopher who faced execution and answered it with reason alone. In a prison cell in the north of Italy, fifteen centuries ago, one of the most powerful men in the kingdom sat condemned to…
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Life Is Worth Living | William James and the Sick Soul
September 18, 2026 · 2 hr 23 minFall asleep to the life of William James, the invalid who became America's great philosopher of hope and belief. As a young man William James was so ill in body and mind that he could barely leave his room, and one spring evening he made…
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Is Change Real? | Heraclitus vs Parmenides | Philosophy for Sleep
September 13, 2026 · 2 hr 18 minFall asleep to the oldest quarrel in philosophy, whether all things flow or nothing ever moves at all. Twenty-five centuries ago, two Greek thinkers gave opposite answers to the same question, and nearly every philosopher since has stood…
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No One Is Free Alone | Hegel and the Need to Be Seen
September 9, 2026 · 2 hr 18 minFall asleep to Hegel, who watched an old world end and swore reason was moving through the ruin. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born into a modest world and rose, against long odds, to become the most commanding philosopher of his age…
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Those Who Know Do Not Speak | The Hidden Teachings of Lao Tzu
September 4, 2026 · 2 hr 17 minFall asleep to the ancient Chinese way of yielding, water, and the wisdom of doing without forcing. More than two thousand years ago, in a China torn apart by endless war, an old man rode west on an ox, handed a gatekeeper a small book of…
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The Most Reluctant Convert | C.S. Lewis for Deep Sleep
August 29, 2026 · 2 hr 23 minFall asleep to the life and mind of C.S. Lewis, the atheist who became Christianity's most beloved modern voice. Over more than two hours, this longform episode traces the whole arc of a remarkable life and mind. We begin in a cold…
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The Sword Was Never the Point | Miyamoto Musashi for Deep Sleep
August 23, 2026 · 2 hr 8 minFall asleep to the story of Miyamoto Musashi, the undefeated swordsman who laid down his blade to write. Born into the last years of Japan's long civil wars, a rough, motherless boy killed his first opponent in a duel at the age of…
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Why We Fear Death | Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death for Sleep
August 19, 2026 · 2 hr 28 minFall asleep to the story of Ernest Becker, who traced all human striving back to the fear of death. In a hospital bed on the Canadian coast, a dying man agreed to be recorded talking about death, the subject he had spent his whole life…
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Man Is Not a Piano Key | Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground for Sleep
August 13, 2026 · 2 hr 19 minFall asleep to the story of literature's first anti-hero, the sick and spiteful man who spoke the modern mind's secret. In the winter of a year that would take almost everyone he loved, a broke and grieving writer set loose the strangest…
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Long-form philosophy content for late-night listening and deep focus. We cover the big thinkers - from the Stoics and Aristotle to Camus, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky - explained in a calm, steady voice that keeps things interesting without being overstimulating.
If you want something substantial to think about during quiet hours, or just appreciate philosophy delivered at a relaxed pace, this is for you.