Hosted by Tom Vierra · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 14 episodes
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A philosophy podcast for everyone. The main idea is for us to get to know some of the most interesting thinkers that ever lived. Each episode is part of a series on a certain thinker/writer. Episodes are fairly short (about 15-30 minutes), but long enough to get you thinking. We explore a wide range of thinkers and writers, both ancient and modern. Pascal, Plato, Dostoevsky, Seneca, Nietzsche, Rousseau, Shakespeare, Camus, Melville -- just some of the names we will encounter together.
Tom Vierra hosts The Thinking Reed, a society show with 14 episodes published.
In this first episode on Rene Descartes, we explore the beginnings of his response to crisis of skepticism -- the great philosophical challenge of his time. We look more closely at how skepticism had developed since Mont
Show notesIn this episode we look at Montaigne's most well known essay, "The Apology for Raymond Sebond." In this rambling essay Montaigne seeks to defend his own version of skepticism. But does it work? I offer reasons why I thin
Show notesIn this episode we cover an introduction to skepticism -- the view that denies we can ever truly know something -- and how it came to impact Montaigne's thought. Skepticism is not a simple perspective: there were disagre
Show notesIn this episode we take up the ever so familiar idea of "the self" or "personality" and discover in Montaigne the beginnings of our own modern understanding of this topic. What does it mean to "be yourself" or to "know y
Show notesIn this episode we take a look at wonderfully interesting life of Michel de Montaigne. He lived in late 16th century France, one of the most tumultuous times in European history. The Protestant Reformation and the Copern
Show notesCicero once remarked that philosophy is learning how to die. In this episode, our first on Michel de Montaigne, we take up his famous essay on this comment from Cicero. What is the most important question we could ever a
Show notesIn this episode I interview Dr. Graham Tomlin, one of the world's leading experts on Pascal and author of the book, Blaise Pascal: The Man Who Made the Modern World. We discuss everything from Pascal's transformative exp
Show notesIn this episode we consider one of the most famous arguments for God: Pascal's "Wager." But is it an argument for God's existence? What exactly is Pascal doing with the Wager? And what are some ways we misunderstand it?
Show notesIn this episode we consider Pascal's thoughts on whether there is such a thing as non-rational knowledge. He famously stated that "the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing." But what did he mean by this? J
Show notesIn this episode we explore Pascal's thoughts on the vulnerability of reason. How do we know we are being rational? Are we as rational as we think? Pascal's thoughts on this topic are fascinating and insightful. Enjoy!
Show notesIn this episode we explore Pascal's famous statement that all of our problems come from our inability to sit alone quietly in a room. Why does he say this? Why do we love distractions? Why would we do anything to get awa
Show notesIn this episode we look more closely at the most important experience of Blaise Pascal's life -- his "Night of Fire" vision. This experience is the gateway to understanding his great philosophical work, the Pensées. Enjo
Show notesIn this episode we take up the life of Blaise Pascal and the world in which he lived. It was a time of religious conflict, of major shifts in scientific and philosophical understanding, and at the center of it all was th
Show notesIn this episode the podcast itself is introduced, along with a short reflection on Pascal's famous statement that man is "a thinking reed."
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