Tag: philosophy

LibriVox: Pygmalion’s Spectacles by Stanley G. Weinbaum

Jesse Willis

Pygmalion’s Spectacles was first published in 1935 in the aptly named Wonder Stories magazine. Four years after it’s first publication it was reprinted in Startling Stories as a “classic” and it was placed in their “Scientifiction Hall Of Fame.” It… Read moreLibriVox: Pygmalion’s Spectacles by Stanley G. Weinbaum

The Partially Examined Life: Candide by Voltaire and No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Jesse Willis

The Partially Examined Life is a philosophy podcast by “some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it.” I started following it after SFFaudio Podcast #115 when Anne, from… Read moreThe Partially Examined Life: Candide by Voltaire and No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

The Dog And The Horse by Voltaire

Jesse Willis

One of the earliest detectives in history, or at least the history of literature, is Zadig. Zadig is the main character of Voltaire’s philosophical novel Zadig; Or The Book Of Fate – An Oriental History. I stumbled across it’s existence… Read moreThe Dog And The Horse by Voltaire

CBC: Ideas: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt

Jesse Willis

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, and its author Stephen Greenblatt, are the subject of the latest CBC Ideas podcast. The Swerve is the story of the recovery of a lost epic Roman poem, by Titus Lucretius Carus, titled… Read moreCBC: Ideas: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt