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Andrew has a degree in philosophy, Taylor is working on a degree in philosophy, and Mr. Parsons taught philosophy to them both. Together they explore philosophy and its application to life, so come along! The door is always open. Open Door Philosophy on Open Door Philosophy on Instagram @opendoorphilosophyOpen Door Philosophy website at opendoorphilosophy.comContact us via email at [email protected]Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Practical philosophy for life • self and identity • Plato on love • virtue, character, moral relativism • political philosophy: justice, education, property, war ethics • God, religious experience • beauty and aesthetics • Eastern traditions, Stoicism, existentialism, language and meaningThis podcast features three hosts with formal backgrounds in philosophy who use conversation to connect major philosophical ideas to everyday questions. Across the episodes, the discussions often move between historical survey and practical application, drawing from both Western and Eastern traditions and regularly returning to themes of self-understanding, moral life, and meaning.
A major strand explores what it means to be a “self,” tracing views from ancient conceptions of the soul through early modern debates about mind and perception to existentialist emphases on choice and lived experience. Another recurring focus is love, approached both as a philosophical problem—what love is, whether it can be cultivated, and how it relates to human flourishing—and through close attention to classical texts, especially Plato’s dialogue on love and beauty. Aesthetics more broadly appears through episodes on beauty and the standards (objective or subjective) by which it is judged.
Ethics and political philosophy also play a prominent role. The hosts consider questions about virtue and character, including contemporary challenges to whether people reliably possess virtues and vices, and examine moral relativism and how moral claims might be justified. Social and political topics include property, education, justice, the ideal society, and the moral complexity of war. Several episodes address religion and philosophy of religion, including the nature of religious experience and arguments surrounding the existence of God.
Interwoven with these themes are episodes highlighting influential philosophers—particularly women who shaped modern philosophy—and occasional lighter, behind-the-scenes or reflective conversations about the show and its trajectory.
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Ep. 96 The End 2025-Feb-11 67 minutes |
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Ep. 95 The Self, Part Three: The Existentialist View 2024-Nov-12 48 minutes |
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Ep. 94 The Self, Part Two: The Early Modern Shift 2024-Oct-29 51 minutes |
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Ep. 93 The Self, Part One: Ancient Conceptions 2024-Oct-15 60 minutes |
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Ep. 92 The Ladder of Love, Plato's Symposium, Part Three 2024-Oct-01 69 minutes |
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Ep. 91 Plato's Symposium, Part Two 2024-Sep-17 56 minutes |
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Ep. 90 Plato's Symposium, Part One 2024-Sep-03 57 minutes |
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Ep. 89 The Oxford Four, Part Four: Mary Midgley 2024-Aug-20 70 minutes |
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Ep. 88 The Oxford Four, Part Three: Elizabeth Anscombe 2024-Aug-06 59 minutes |
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Ep. 87 The Oxford Four, Part Two: Philippa Foot 2024-Jul-23 61 minutes |
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Ep. 86 The Oxford Four, Part One: Iris Murdoch 2024-Jul-09 60 minutes |
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Ep. 85 Character and Virtue with Guest Christian Miller 2024-Jun-11 79 minutes |
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Ep. 84 Our Fourth Annual Marcus Aurelius Extravaganza! 2024-May-28 50 minutes |
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Ep. 83 Is Morality Relative? 2024-May-14 59 minutes |
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Ep. 82 Religious Experience, Part 2 2024-Apr-30 63 minutes |
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Ep. 81 Religious Experience, Part 1 2024-Apr-16 67 minutes |
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Ep. 80 Philosophers on God with Guest Jack Symes 2024-Apr-02 75 minutes |
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Ep. 79 From Wollstonecraft to Wolf: Women Who Shaped Philosophy, Part 3 2024-Mar-19 54 minutes |
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Ep. 78 Ban Zhao and Christine de Piaza: Women Who Shaped Philosophy, Part 2 2024-Mar-05 39 minutes |
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Ep. 77 Diotima and Hypatia: Women Who Shaped Philosophy, Part 1 2024-Feb-20 39 minutes |
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Ep. 76 Looking for Beauty: The Philosophy of Beauty, Part 2 2024-Feb-06 67 minutes |
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Ep. 75 Engaging with Beauty: The Philosophy of Beauty, Part 1 2024-Jan-23 59 minutes |
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Trailer - Welcome To Open Door Philosophy! 2024-Jan-16 less than a minute |
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Ep. 74 Preview of 2024 2024-Jan-09 36 minutes |
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ODP Nonsense 3: Latin, Booze, Neck Ties, Camera Angles 2024-Jan-02 13 minutes |
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Ep. 73 Year-In-Review and Our Favorite Books of 2023 2023-Dec-26 67 minutes |
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Ep. 72 The Concept of Property 2023-Dec-12 70 minutes |
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ODP Nonsense 2: Cardigans, Fraud, Mysterious Travel, and Polish 2023-Dec-05 6 minutes |
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Ep. 71 Education, Justice, and the Ideal Society: 20th Century Political Philosophy with Strauss, Rawls, Nozick 2023-Nov-28 59 minutes |
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ODP Nonsense 1: Mullets, Football, Beckham, Astros 2023-Nov-20 6 minutes |
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Ep. 70 Enlightenment Political Philosophy: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau 2023-Nov-14 73 minutes |
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Ep. 69 Spooky Philosophers Halloween Spectacular! 2023-Oct-31 70 minutes |
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Ep. 68 The Ethics of War 2023-Oct-17 58 minutes |
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Ep. 67 Where Should I Start with Philosophy? 2023-Oct-03 69 minutes |
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Ep. 66 Can Science and Wisdom Traditions Complement Each Other?” 2023-Sep-19 73 minutes |
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Ep. 65 Authority, Labels, and Oranges 2023-Sep-05 72 minutes |
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Ep. 64 What Is Happiness? 2023-Aug-22 56 minutes |
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Ep.63 The Philosophy of Love, Part 2 2023-Aug-08 64 minutes |
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Ep. 62 The Philosophy of Love, Part 1 2023-Jul-25 66 minutes |
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Ep. 61 Philosophy and Literature 2023-Jul-11 66 minutes |
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Ep. 60 Language and Meaning, Who Was Ludwig Wittgenstein? The Analytic Tradition, Part 2 2023-Jun-27 59 minutes |
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Ep. 59 Who Was Bertrand Russell? The Analytic Tradition, Part 1 2023-Jun-13 56 minutes |
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Ep. 58 Should We Hope? 2023-May-30 61 minutes |
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Ep. 57 Cultivation of the Soul 2023-May-16 65 minutes |
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Ep. 56 Kierkegaard on Despair 2023-May-01 55 minutes |
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Ep. 55 Our Third Annual Marcus Aurelius Extravaganza! 2023-Apr-18 60 minutes |
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Ep. 54 Hinduism, Eastern Philosophy, Part 4 2023-Apr-04 58 minutes |
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Ep. 53 Buddhism, Eastern Philosophy, Part 3 2023-Mar-21 60 minutes |
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Ep. 52 Confucianism, Eastern Philosophy, Part 2 2023-Mar-07 58 minutes |
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Ep. 51 Taoism, Eastern Philosophy, Part 1 2023-Feb-21 60 minutes |
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Ep. 50 Listener Questions! 2023-Feb-07 60 minutes |
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Ep. 49 Who Was Jean-Paul Sartre? 2023-Jan-24 54 minutes |
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Ep. 48 Who was Simone de Beauvoir? 2023-Jan-10 55 minutes |
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Ep. 47 Our Favorite Books of 2022 2022-Dec-27 56 minutes |
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Ep. 46 Higher and Friendly Powers with Guest Peg O'Connor 2022-Dec-13 69 minutes |
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Ep. 45 Who Was Aristotle? 2022-Nov-29 52 minutes |
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Ep. 44 Who Was Plato? 2022-Nov-15 50 minutes |
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Ep. 43 The Complete Works of Epictetus with Translator Robin Waterfield 2022-Nov-01 51 minutes |
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Ep. 42 Who Was Socrates? 2022-Oct-18 44 minutes |
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Ep. 41 Who Were the Pre-Socratics? 2022-Oct-04 53 minutes |
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Ep. 40 The Ring of Gyges: What Would You Do? 2022-Sep-20 46 minutes |
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Ep. 39 The Problem of Evil - Philosophy of Religion, Part 5 2022-Sep-06 47 minutes |
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Ep. 38 How To Be Authentic with Guest Skye Cleary 2022-Aug-23 56 minutes |
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Ep. 37 Is the Universe Intelligently Designed: The Teleological Argument - Philosophy of Religion, Part 4 2022-Aug-09 63 minutes |
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Ep. 36 The Universe Had To Begin Somehow: The Cosmological Argument - Philosophy of Religion, Part 3 2022-Jul-26 64 minutes |
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Ep. 35 Can Logic Alone Prove God's Existence: The Ontological Argument - Philosophy of Religion, Part 2 2022-Jul-12 57 minutes |
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Ep. 34 What is God? Philosophy of Religion, Part 1 2022-Jun-28 65 minutes |
Ep. 33 Thought Experiments and Their Value With Guest Helen De Cruz2022-Jun-14 58 minutes |
Ep. 32 Philosophy as a Way of Life, Part 22022-May-31 66 minutes |
Ep. 31 Philosophy as a Way of Life, Part 12022-May-17 63 minutes |
Ep. 30 Epictetus, The Slave Who Became a Stoic Master - Stoic Thinkers Part 42022-May-03 56 minutes |
Ep. 29 Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic Emperor - Stoic Thinkers Part 32022-Apr-19 62 minutes |
Ep. 28 Seneca and the Stoic Life - Stoic Thinkers Part 22022-Apr-05 59 minutes |
Ep. 27 Introduction to Stoicism - Stoic Thinkers Part 12022-Mar-22 56 minutes |
Ep. 26 Listener Q&A2022-Mar-08 53 minutes |
Ep. 25 Philosophers on Consciousness With Guest Jack Symes2022-Feb-22 54 minutes |
Ep. 24 Materialism and Panpsychism - The Mind-Body Problem Part 22022-Feb-08 56 minutes |
Ep. 23 Consciousness Introduction and Dualism - The Mind-Body Problem Part 12022-Jan-25 59 minutes |
Ep. 22 - Our Favorite Philosophy Books2021-Nov-30 56 minutes |
Ep. 21 The Eternal Tao2021-Nov-16 63 minutes |
Ep. 20 Introduction To Transcendentalism2021-Nov-02 54 minutes |
Ep. 19 Problems in Philosophy with Guest Dr. Gregory Sadler2021-Oct-19 73 minutes |
Ep. 18 Virtue's Path To Happiness - Ethics and Morality, Part Four2021-Oct-05 54 minutes |
Ep. 17 Kant You Get Enough? (Duty Ethics) - Ethics and Morality, Part Three2021-Sep-21 57 minutes |
Ep. 16 Calculate the Best Possible Decision with Utilitarianism - Ethics and Morality, Part Two2021-Sep-07 52 minutes |
Ep. 15 Why Morality Matters - Ethics and Morality, Part One2021-Aug-24 61 minutes |
Ep. 14 Pragmatism and William James with Guest Jeffrey Howard2021-Aug-10 59 minutes |
Ep. 13 Kierkegaard - The Father of Existentialism2021-Jul-27 55 minutes |
Ep. 12 How To Do Philosophy2021-Jul-13 58 minutes |
Ep. 11 A Philosopher's Guide To Friendship2021-Jun-29 63 minutes |
Ep. 10 Do We Have a Soul?2021-Jun-15 50 minutes |
Ep. 9 The Life and Ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche with Guest Carson Knox2021-Jun-01 59 minutes |
Ep. 8 Falling Upward: The Second Half of Life2021-May-18 44 minutes |
Ep. 7 What Does It Mean To Die Well?2021-May-04 50 minutes |
Ep. 6 Marcus Aurelius and Stoicism2021-Apr-20 57 minutes |
Ep. 5 Who Are You? Maybe.2021-Apr-06 45 minutes |
Ep. 4 Do You Exist?2021-Mar-23 47 minutes |
Ep. 3 A Beginner's Guide to Aristotle2021-Mar-09 44 minutes |
Ep. 2 Plato's Allegory of the Cave2021-Feb-23 46 minutes |
Ep. 1 What is Philosophy?2021-Feb-09 35 minutes |