Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Philosophy of religion • Divine hiddenness • Suffering and evil • God and belief • Holiday reflections • The supernatural • Classic philosophers • Modern thinkers and skepticism • Theology and everyday life
"Red Letter Philosophy" is a podcast dedicated to exploring profound philosophical questions, particularly within the realm of religion and metaphysics, as suggested by its show description. The podcast delves into intricate topics such as the hiddenness of God, the nature of belief, and the interplay between faith and reason. Through its episodes, it tackles the challenges of understanding divine silence and absence in the face of human suffering and evil, drawing on insights from historical and contemporary philosophers like D. Z. Phillips, C. S. Lewis, and David Hume.
The content consistently reflects a blend of theological inquiry and philosophical analysis, often converging on themes of existence, reality, and perception. Episodes frequently discuss prominent figures in philosophy, ranging from ancient thinkers like Plato and Aristotle to Enlightenment figures such as Rene Descartes and Baruch Spinoza, and modern philosophers including Jean Paul Sartre and Friedrich Nietzsche. This podcast also re-evaluates the ideas of empiricists such as John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume, considering their contributions to discussions about knowledge, belief, and skepticism.
Seasonal and holiday episodes introduce reflections on the metaphysical significance of various celebrations, including Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, and Halloween. These episodes often integrate philosophical musings with cultural and literary references, enriching the discussion with diverse perspectives.
Recurring themes include the tension between empirical evidence and faith, the philosophical underpinnings of belief in God, and the implications of modern skepticism. The podcast also explores existential questions through literature and popular culture, showcasing works by authors like Oscar Wilde and H. P. Lovecraft. Overall, "Red Letter Philosophy" serves as a contemplative series that invites listeners to ponder deep existential and spiritual questions through the lens of both historical and modern philosophy.
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Episodes:
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Where Is God?
2024-Sep-30
17 minutes
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Divine Hiddenness & D. Z. Phillips
2024-Jul-27
17 minutes
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Divine Hiddenness & C. S. Lewis
2024-Jun-30
14 minutes
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Deus Absconditus
2024-Apr-26
13 minutes
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RLP Replay: What's So Good About Good Friday?
2024-Mar-30
17 minutes
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RLP Replay: The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
2024-Mar-17
14 minutes
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World In My Eyes
2024-Mar-01
11 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Love & Death
2024-Feb-14
15 minutes
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Policy of Truth
2024-Feb-02
12 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Memento Mori
2023-Nov-01
18 minutes
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Enjoy the Silence
2023-Oct-20
16 minutes
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The Problem of Unbelief
2023-Sep-15
19 minutes
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RLP Special: Death in the Grand Canyon (Refreshed)
2023-Aug-25
16 minutes
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RLP Special: Chance or the Dance (Refreshed)
2023-Aug-11
16 minutes
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RLP Special: The Sea Within (Refreshed)
2023-Jul-28
12 minutes
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RLP Special: Life Is a Pigsty (Refreshed)
2023-Jul-14
15 minutes
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Farewell & Adieu
2023-Jun-30
20 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Fatherhood & Reality
2023-Jun-16
10 minutes
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Thomas Howard: Chance or Dance?
2023-Jun-09
17 minutes
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St. Augustine: My Love Is My Gravity
2023-May-26
14 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Monica's Tears
2023-May-12
7 minutes
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David Hume & Belief in God, Pt. II
2023-May-05
18 minutes
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David Hume & Belief in God
2023-Apr-21
19 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Faith & Reason
2023-Apr-07
15 minutes
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David Hume: Hume's Cave
2023-Mar-24
18 minutes
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RLP Holiday: The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
2023-Mar-17
14 minutes
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David Hume: Party Guy
2023-Mar-10
22 minutes
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Bishop George Berkeley: To Be Is To Be Perceived
2023-Feb-24
13 minutes
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RLP Holiday: The Heart of the Matter
2023-Feb-10
7 minutes
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John Locke: Are You Experienced?
2023-Feb-03
19 minutes
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G. W. F. Leibniz & God
2023-Jan-20
16 minutes
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G. W. F. Leibniz & The Mystery of Existence
2023-Jan-06
19 minutes
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RLP Holiday - Christmas Belief: Lessons from The Polar Express
2022-Dec-24
20 minutes
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Baruch Spinoza & The Mystery of Existence
2022-Dec-16
17 minutes
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Rene Descartes & The Mystery of Existence
2022-Dec-02
19 minutes
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RLP Holiday: In Defense of Thanksgiving
2022-Nov-22
10 minutes
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Rene Descartes: God, Reason, and a Piece of Wax
2022-Nov-18
18 minutes
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Rene Descartes: Cartesian Delight
2022-Nov-04
13 minutes
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RLP Holiday: What the Moon Brings by H. P. Lovecraft
2022-Oct-28
10 minutes
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Occam's Flavor
2022-Oct-21
21 minutes
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Amarettos with Aristotle
2022-Oct-07
16 minutes
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Play-Tonic: A Shot of Plato and Aristotle
2022-Sep-23
17 minutes
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Parmenides on the Rocks
2022-Sep-09
17 minutes
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RLP Special: Summertime Sadness
2022-Aug-26
12 minutes
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RLP Special: Summertime Madness
2022-Aug-12
22 minutes
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RLP Special: Jaws & Philosophy
2022-Jul-29
26 minutes
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RLP Special: The Beach Boys & Philosophy
2022-Jul-15
37 minutes
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RLP Holiday: The Revolutionary & The Bishop
2022-Jul-01
12 minutes
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God & The Philosophers
2022-Jun-24
14 minutes
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RLP Holiday - Ordinary Men: A Celebration of Fathers
2022-Jun-17
11 minutes
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Ludwig Wittgenstein & God, Pt. 2
2022-Jun-10
12 minutes
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Ludwig Wittgenstein & God, Pt. 1
2022-Jun-03
16 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Memory & The Philosophers
2022-May-27
11 minutes
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Mystic
2022-May-20
8 minutes
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Gamer
2022-May-13
14 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Common Sense Motherhood
2022-May-06
8 minutes
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Solipsisms & Skepticisms
2022-Apr-29
14 minutes
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Hero or Villain?
2022-Apr-22
22 minutes
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RLP Holiday: What's So Good About Good Friday?
2022-Apr-15
15 minutes
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C. S. Lewis & The Seeing Eye
2022-Apr-08
13 minutes
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C. S. Lewis' Meditation in a Toolshed
2022-Mar-25
16 minutes
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RLP Holiday: St. Patrick's Day III
2022-Mar-17
11 minutes
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C. S. Lewis: Myth & Truth
2022-Mar-11
14 minutes
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C. S. Lewis & The Myth That Became Fact
2022-Feb-25
12 minutes
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Irish Blood, English Heart: The Philosophy of C. S. Lewis
2022-Feb-11
15 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Galentine's Day, Valentine's Day
2022-Feb-11
15 minutes
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G. K. Chesterton: Philosopher of Light
2022-Jan-28
17 minutes
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G. K. Chesterton: Philosopher of Common Sense
2022-Jan-14
18 minutes
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RLP Holiday - A New Years Ghost Story: A Christmas Carol
2021-Dec-31
16 minutes
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RLP Holiday - A Christmas Ghost Story: A Christmas Carol
2021-Dec-24
19 minutes
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G. K. Chesterton: Philosopher of Sanity
2021-Dec-17
15 minutes
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G. K. Chesterton: Philosopher of Madness
2021-Dec-03
15 minutes
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RLP Holiday - Thanksgiving III: Fire, Food, and Drink
2021-Nov-25
13 minutes
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G. K. Chesterton: The Savage
2021-Nov-19
17 minutes
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Blaise Pascal: The Wagerer
2021-Nov-05
21 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Halloween & The Uncanny
2021-Oct-29
22 minutes
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Blaise Pascal: The Diverted
2021-Oct-22
19 minutes
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Blaise Pascal: The Impotent
2021-Oct-08
18 minutes
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Blaise Pascal: The Vain
2021-Sep-24
21 minutes
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Blaise Pascal: The Great and Wretched
2021-Sep-10
23 minutes
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RLP Backstage: "The Office and Philosophy"
2021-Aug-27
22 minutes
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RLP Backstage: “Psychology as Religion”
2021-Aug-13
17 minutes
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RLP Backstage: "The Right Side of History"
2021-Jul-30
23 minutes
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RLP Backstage: "Lived Experience"
2021-Jul-16
24 minutes
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RLP Holiday - 4th of July III: Patrick Henry Meets Harry Potter
2021-Jul-02
8 minutes
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RLP Backstage: Life & Logic Edition
2021-Jul-02
23 minutes
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The End (Of the Beginning)
2021-Jun-18
11 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Father's Day II (The Philosopher King)
2021-Jun-18
7 minutes
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Disinterested Attitudes
2021-Jun-04
11 minutes
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RLP Holiday: For the Fallen (Memorial Day II)
2021-May-28
7 minutes
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What Kant Said
2021-May-21
11 minutes
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Uh Oh, Hot Dog!
2021-May-07
9 minutes
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RLP Holiday - Mother's Day II: Heed Not the Darkness nor the Rain
2021-May-07
6 minutes
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Good Taste vs. What Tastes Good
2021-Apr-23
11 minutes
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Heaven in Stone & Glass
2021-Apr-09
9 minutes
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RLP Holiday: The Ballad of God Makers (Easter II)
2021-Apr-02
5 minutes
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What Aquinas Said
2021-Mar-26
12 minutes
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RLP Holiday: St. Patrick's Day II
2021-Mar-17
6 minutes
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The Argument from Beauty
2021-Mar-12
10 minutes
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Betwixt Mortal & Immortal
2021-Feb-26
10 minutes
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The Symposium (Beauty & Love)
2021-Feb-12
10 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Valentine's Day III - Socratic Love
2021-Feb-12
5 minutes
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Plato’s Hippias Major (On Maidens and Gods)
2021-Jan-29
14 minutes
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The Light of Beauty Illuminates More Than That Which It Shines Upon
2021-Jan-16
11 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Christmas III - Silence & Music
2021-Jan-02
10 minutes
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We Are Not Animals
2020-Dec-19
9 minutes
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Wilde & Crazy Guys
2020-Dec-04
11 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Thanksgiving II - Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
2020-Nov-24
9 minutes
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Beauty in a Test Tube?
2020-Nov-20
10 minutes
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Judging Beauty
2020-Nov-06
8 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Near Death in the ICU (Halloween II)
2020-Oct-31
12 minutes
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High Culture
2020-Oct-23
9 minutes
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Is Paris in the Eye of the Beholder?
2020-Oct-09
9 minutes
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Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder?
2020-Sep-25
8 minutes
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But Is It Beautiful?
2020-Sep-11
10 minutes
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RLP Special: September 11th & The Mystery of Evil
2020-Sep-11
8 minutes
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RLP Special: The Endless Summer
2020-Aug-28
8 minutes
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RLP Special: Death in the Grand Canyon
2020-Aug-21
12 minutes
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RLP Special: The Human House
2020-Aug-14
8 minutes
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RLP Special: Spooky Action at a Distance
2020-Jul-31
10 minutes
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RLP Special: I Surf, Therefore I Am
2020-Jul-17
8 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Independence Day Reflections
2020-Jul-04
7 minutes
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RLP Special: The Sea Within
2020-Jul-03
9 minutes
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Introducing Red Letter Philosophy
2020-Jul-02
5 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Reflections on Fatherhood
2020-Jun-21
8 minutes
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The End
2020-Jun-19
8 minutes
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The Opiate of the Masses? (Pt. 2)
2020-Jun-05
7 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Memorial Day I
2020-May-25
7 minutes
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The Opiate of the Masses? (Pt. 1)
2020-May-22
9 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Mother's Day I
2020-May-10
5 minutes
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A Friend Indeed, Pt. 2
2020-May-08
8 minutes
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A Friend Indeed, Pt. 1
2020-Apr-24
8 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Easter I
2020-Apr-12
6 minutes
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You Are Useless
2020-Apr-10
8 minutes
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The Futility of Utility
2020-Mar-27
14 minutes
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RLP Holiday: St. Patrick's Day I
2020-Mar-17
7 minutes
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Can or Kant?
2020-Mar-13
13 minutes
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Snobs or Slobs?
2020-Feb-28
16 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Valentine's Day II - The Nightingale & The Rose
2020-Feb-14
14 minutes
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The Pleasure Principle
2020-Jan-31
15 minutes
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God or Beast?
2020-Jan-17
13 minutes
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The Demon of Happiness
2020-Jan-03
12 minutes
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RLP Holiday: 'Tis the Season (Christmas II)
2019-Dec-23
9 minutes
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Aristotle & Happiness
2019-Dec-20
12 minutes
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The Barbarian & The Philosopher
2019-Dec-06
14 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Thanksgiving
2019-Nov-27
10 minutes
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Viktor Frankl & The Meaning of Life
2019-Nov-22
15 minutes
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Albert Camus & The Myth of Sisyphus
2019-Nov-08
12 minutes
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RLP Holiday: But Is It Real? Halloween I
2019-Oct-31
14 minutes
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Jean-Paul Sartre, Ethics & Meaning
2019-Oct-25
12 minutes
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C. S. Lewis & The Unavoidable Invisible
2019-Oct-11
13 minutes
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David Hume & The Impotence of Reason
2019-Sep-27
12 minutes
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A Horseman in the Sky
2019-Sep-20
21 minutes
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Life Is Still a Pigsty
2019-Sep-13
10 minutes
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RLP Special: Conan the Barbarian & Philosophy
2019-Aug-30
16 minutes
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RLP Special: The Smiths, Morrissey & Philosophy
2019-Aug-16
14 minutes
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Plato's Cave, Pt. 2
2019-Aug-02
10 minutes
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Plato's Cave, Pt. 1
2019-Jul-19
9 minutes
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RLP Holiday: A Strange Revolution
2019-Jul-04
8 minutes
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RLP Special: Stranger Things - A Prequel
2019-Jul-04
13 minutes
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Narrative and Reality
2019-Jun-21
12 minutes
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The Fall of Gyges
2019-Jun-07
13 minutes
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The Ring of Gyges
2019-May-24
12 minutes
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Beelzebub
2019-May-10
13 minutes
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Whence Evil?
2019-Apr-26
14 minutes
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Be Quick, But Don't Hurry
2019-Apr-12
9 minutes
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And Then There Were Four
2019-Mar-29
13 minutes
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Wondrous Strange
2019-Mar-15
11 minutes
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Where Are You?
2019-Mar-01
10 minutes
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Mind the Gap
2019-Feb-15
12 minutes
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RLP Holiday: Romance and The Devil
2019-Feb-10
4 minutes
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The Madmen
2019-Feb-01
11 minutes
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Everything Comes with a Price
2019-Jan-18
9 minutes
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Stage-One Thinking
2019-Jan-04
10 minutes
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RLP Holiday: It's a Wonderful Life
2018-Dec-21
8 minutes
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Strange Ways
2018-Dec-21
11 minutes
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A Philosophy of Light
2018-Dec-07
10 minutes
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Asking the Right Questions
2018-Nov-23
12 minutes
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Life Is a Pigsty
2018-Nov-09
10 minutes
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