31. Nihilism and Nietzsche

30. Nietzsche: Birth of Tragedy II

29. Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy

28. The life of Nietzsche

27. Environmentally evaluating Schopenhauer

26. Sex and A.K. Coomaraswamy's "Sahaja"

25. Schopenhauer: The Metaphysics of Sexual Love

24. Schopenhauer's Ode to Joy: Beauty

23. Schopenhauer on the Will

22. Intro to Schopenhauer 4: George Berkeley

21. Intro to Schopenhauer III: Spinoza

20. Schopenhauer Intro II: Del Close, Giordano Bruno

19. Tolstoy, political ranting and intro to Schopenhauer

18. Re-defining philosophy and how we lost our muse

17. Confucius the Sage King (new version)

16. Confucius the throneless king: a biography

15. Aristotle on the soul

14. a new reading of Plato's Forms and the Allegory of the Cave

13. Plato, Confucius, education and politics

12. Walt Whitman readings on American Culture and Abe Lincoln. Political and cultural criticism.

11. Hollywood vrs. Greek Tragedy:Culture and the cinimatic concern. Confucious, Oedipus, wrap up of the Presocratics.

10. Love, Secrets, and Greek Philosophy. Ambiguity in the word Love, Sophecles, Frued, Socrates and the Pre-Socratics.

9. The Pre-Socratics = The Big Bang of Western civilization/thought/experience. Thales, Pythagorus, Heraclitus, introduction to the Sophists and the relativism argument, Plato's forms, and the mystery of the student teacher relationship.

8. Socrates and the Soul: A new reading of the Phaedo.

Nietzche's Ultimate Introduction to Socrates

Nietzche's philosophy; readings from Zarathustra, comments from Kierkergaard, and some editorial on the notion of evolution and its conflicts with religious traditions and institutions.

Hurricane Katrina editorial, recap of first four episodes, continuation of discussion of dualism with a reading of Nietzche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

a look at duality/non-duality through the lense of Sartre, Lao Tzu, Genisis, Tolstoy, Paul Tillich

Readings from Walt Whitman, Christianity, Buddhism, Tao te Ching, discussion of 60s, Karoac, poverty

Upanishadic tradition, Christianity, Buddhism, Schopenhauer, culture, art, outline of pessimistic tradition in philosophy. Pess…

Laying out the ground rules, getting a working definition of philosophy for our discussion. Chinese philosophers Lao Tzu and Confucious, Western philosophic tradition, religious traditions east and west.