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2421: Akan Philosophy and Personhood, 5/21/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Mind, soul, body, and breath—how do all of these go together for the Akan people of West Africa?

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
The Spanish Hour 2403: Music for a Pilgrimage
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: Hymnus peregrinorum “Dum pater familias” fragment from Codex Calixtinus
From as far back as the ninth century, perhaps earlier, pilgrims have followed El Camino de Santiago to the shrine of St. James in Compostela. On t...

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 35
2023-12-10 Nonduality and the Oneness of Being
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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If Brahman is all and all is Brahman, is there still room for stuff like tables, chairs, and wombats?

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
StoryCorps: Stephen Quandt
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Stephen Quandt at the Clean Futures Fund clinic in Slavutych, Ukraine--a city built for those evacuated after the nuclear power plant disaster--in June of 2019., Credit: Photo courtesy of Stephen Quandt
Stephen Quandt remembers a 2019 animal rescue trip to Ukraine and the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2023
  • Length: 02:51
Christopher Bollen discusses "The Lost Americans"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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When the lifeless body of Eric Castle, a weapons technician for a major American defense contractor, is found under his hotel balcony, both his emp...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2023
  • Length: 31:01
2305: Citizenship and Justice, 1/31/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is citizenship the best recipe for non-discrimination?

  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
2022-10-16 Liberty and Justice For Who?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How could a "pro-freedom" philosophy be used to deprive people around the world of the right to self-government?

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  • Added: Oct 17, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
2022-09-25 Martin Heidegger
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can Heidegger's contributions to Western philosophy and be reconciled with his active support for the German Nazi party?

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Sole Food
From: Israel Story
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For some people, such as Tali Aronsky, life is a meal. So how can chicken drumsticks, kubeh soup, hard boiled eggs, lamb biryani and lahme bi ajeen...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2022
  • Length: 17:09
Traveling deeper with Bruce Poon Tip of G Adventures
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Bruce Poon Tip in the Amazon, Credit: G Adventures
Join our discussion about the transformative power of travel and the fifth gear that drives success with Bruce Poon Tip of G Adventures.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2021
  • Length: 38:20
2021-10-03 Immigration and Multiculturalism
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Should ethnic or cultural identity ever be considered in any country’s immigration policy?

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
2021-09-26 Gandhi as a Philosopher
From: Philosophy Talk
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What were the philosophical bases of Gandhi's ideas?

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Big Ponder #19: Encounters
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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How many people will you meet in your lifetime? How many will you remember? Fascinated by the countless chance encounters in their own lives, Susan...

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2021
  • Length: 28:45
  • Purchases: 1
Feeding the World Without Wrecking the Planet
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we hear from two experts with competing visions of how we can sustainably feed a growing planet. Please join Ray Suarez, Ra...

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Vaccinating the World Part II: You Can’t Fight Scarcity with Scarcity
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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India is the world’s largest supplier of vaccines but the government there suspended the export of all COVID-19 vaccines after a devastating outbre...

  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 03:52
Epidemics Change History
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Pandemics have played a huge role in human history. A cholera outbreak in Europe had huge implications for the way we see public health. And it was...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 04:06
2020-11-22 Spinoza
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What made Baruch Spinoza one of the most influential and beguiling thinkers of all time?

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
2020-11-08 Camus and the Absurd
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is life just like a rock you keep pushing up a hill so it won't roll back over you?

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  • Added: Nov 09, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Taoism: Following the Way
From: Philosophy Talk
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Is Taoism a religion, a philosophy, a spiritual practice, or a way of life?

  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
Islamic Philosophy
From: Philosophy Talk
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Astronomy, mathematics, linguistics, politics, justice, and the state -- the heritage of the West, given to Christianity by Islam.

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Art of Mistakes: Writing Wrongs
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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If you’ve ever tried to work creatively, this one is for you – in this episode of the FEHLER podcast, our producer Bilal Qureshi sits down with fou...

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 25:09
  • Purchases: 1
Folktale of Civil Rights & Liberties
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Civil Rights & Liberties, Credit: Julia Meek
Around the musical globe, we're all in this together--let freedom ring!

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 5
Time and Patience
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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We don’t have to win the war against Covid as much as we need to learn to make peace with its existence in our world for now.

  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
F-Word: Jerome Roos's Smart Take On The Next Financial Crisis
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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This week's commentary comes by way of Jerome Roos, an LSE Fellow in international political economy at the London School of Economics and founding...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 03:30
War, Sacrifice, and the Media
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Does fighting a war require an enemy to demonize?

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7