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Daily15 - A Life Of Thought

A Life Of Thought

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Frequency: 1 episode/2d. Total Eps: 6

A deep and thoughtful life is a life well lived. Explore philosophy, and think in the company of others.

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20/07/2025
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Vida Yao on Eros and Anxiety

Saturday, July 19, 2025 • Duration 18:48

Today's excerpt comes from a recently published paper, titled Eros and Anxiety, by Professor Vida Yao. The paper explores ideals of rationality, authenticity, and how they interact with transformative experiences – specifically, the experience of falling in love. Yao is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at UCLA, and is interested in Ethics and Moral Psychology, specifically the philosophy of emotions and the self.

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Yao, Vida. “Eros and Anxiety.” Synthese 202, no. 6 (December 6, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04391-0.

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Wittgenstein on Knowing and Doubting

Friday, July 18, 2025 • Duration 17:57

Today’s excerpt comes from §92-94 of Wittgenstein’s ‘On Certainty.’ In it, Wittgenstein explores the difference between normal, every-day, beliefs – like “the bus is going to get here at 2:30pm” – and beliefs that serve, in one way or another, as backdrops for us, and seem quite obvious: ‘The world has existed for a long time.

Read it yourself at ⁠⁠alifeofthought.com/d15⁠⁠ -- Or join the conversation at ⁠⁠community.alifeofthought.com⁠⁠.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings. 1. ed. HarperPerennial ModernThought. New York: HarperPerennial, 2009, sec. 92-94

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Thoreau on Walking

Season 1 · Episode 4

Wednesday, July 16, 2025 • Duration 15:20

Today's excerpt comes from a lecture written by Henry David Thoreau, titled walking. The lecture itself is a sort of walk, meandering and sauntering around.

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Citation: Thoreau, Henry David. “Walking.” In Thackeray Newman Ruskin Huxley Thoreau and Others, Deluxe Edition., 393–425. Harvard Classics. P. F. Collier & Son Corporation, 1938.

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Freud on Slips of the Tongue

Season 1 · Episode 3

Saturday, July 12, 2025 • Duration 16:12

Today's Daily 15 is an excursion into one of Freud's first introductory lectures on psychoanalysis. In the lecture, Freud asks whether slips of the tongue, misplacements, or seemingly random forgettings, in fact, have a sense or a meaning or an interpretation.

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Citation: Freud, Sigmund, and James Strachey. “II Parapraxes.” In Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. New York: Norton, 1977.

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Sartre On the Nature of Reflective Consciousness

Season 1 · Episode 2

Friday, July 11, 2025 • Duration 16:38

Today's excerpt comes from the introduction of Sartre's masterwork, Being and Nothingness. Sartre discusses the relation of consciousness to itself.

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Excerpt from Sartre, Jean-Paul. Being and Nothingness: An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology. Translated by Sarah Richmond. First Washington Square Press/Atria paperback edition. New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi: Washington Square Press/Atria, 2021, pp. 11 - 12.

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Proust on Habit and Memory

Season 1 · Episode 1

Wednesday, July 9, 2025 • Duration 20:46

Today's excerpt comes from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. In the passage, Marcel discusses the connection between habit, memory, and the process of forgetting and becoming indifferent.

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Excerpt from: Proust, Marcel. Swann’s Way. Translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Modern Library pbk. ed. The Modern Library Classics, v. 1. New York: Modern Library, 2003, pp. 300-301.

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