Life Lessons

Life Lessons

Quiet lessons from philosophy and literature for living a considered life.

49 episodes · tap a title to listen

01

A Place where One Belongs: Lessons from Ibasho

6:28

02

A Reason for Being: Lessons form Ikigai

4:32

03

All good things are wild and free: Lessons from Thoreau

4:26

04

Anger: Lessons from Seneca

5:42

05

Anxiety & Health: Lessons from Kierkegaard

5:52

06

Before the Law: Lessons from Kafka

7:35

07

Camel, Lion and Child: Lessons from Nietzsche

4:50

08

Challenge Assumptions: Lessons from Descartes

7:20

09

Change: Lessons from Heraclitus

5:10

10

Courage: Lessons from Plato

6:00

11

Cynicism: Lessons from Diogenes

7:16

12

Death: Lessons from Beauvoir

6:33

13

Delusion: Lessons from Nietzsche

7:38

14

Dignity: Lessons from Nussbaum

6:13

15

Embracing Solitude: Lessons from Schopenhauer

8:02

16

Enjoying Activities Alone: Lessons from Solo Katsu

4:44

17

Eternalism: Lessons from Einstein

4:26

18

Finding Happiness in Absurdity: Lessons from Albert Camus

4:38

19

Freedom of Speech: Lessons from J.S. Mill

6:03

20

Gratitude: Lessons from Marcus Aurelius

6:54

21

Great Conversations : Lessons from Jasper

4:48

22

Habits: Lessons from Clear

6:09

23

Hate: Lessons from Baldwin

6:20

24

Heroism: Lessons from Homer

4:35

25

How to Treat Others : Lessons from Kant

6:49

26

How to be Happy: Lessons from Aristotle

4:35

27

Inquiry Based Learning: Lessons from Ibn Sina

7:14

28

Luxury: Lessons from Tacitus

7:23

29

Madman Theory: Lessons from Machiavelli

5:57

30

Mass Manipulation: Lessons from Plato

7:53

31

Opposites: Lessons from Ying and Yang

7:01

32

Optimism: Lessons from Deutsche

5:07

33

Pragmatism: Lessons from Pierce

4:25

34

Rationality: Lessons from Kant

6:16

35

Right Speech : Lessons from Buddhism

6:30

36

Serendipity: Lessons from Montaigne

6:34

37

Silence: Lessons from Heidegger

5:01

38

Taking good things: Lessons from Iitokodori

4:37

39

The Black Swan: Lessons from Taleb

5:30

40

The Chariot : Lessons from Plato

6:47

41

The Culture Industry: Lessons from Adorno/Horkheimer

7:39

42

The Look: Lessons from Jean-Paul Satre

6:17

43

The Mind Can Justify What the Heart Cannot: Lessons from Dostoevsky

4:38

44

The New Happy: Lessons from Harrison

6:51

45

The Nobel Lie: Lessons from Plato

5:42

46

The Third Space: Lessons from Oldeburg

6:30

47

The Three Types of Friends: Lessons from Aristotle

New4:37

48

This is Fine: Lessons from Voltaire

New6:27

49

Virtue: Lessons from Plato

New7:04