🔒 Technology and Nihilism: Intro

Subscriber-only episode This is my first in a series devoted to the ways in which technology and nihilism have been understood and intertwined in the Western philosophical tradition. It turns out that what's at issue is something much deeper than simply the historical emergence of these things we call 'technology' and 'nihilism,' taking us to the very core of what is meant by philosophy itself. Beginning with two of the greatest thinkers on the subject closest to us, we see this f...

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These are previews from my website AthensCorner.com of in-depth discussions on the Western world's greatest books in philosophy and political philosophy.  There are also occasional previews for my Fathers & Sons series on the website devoted to guiding and assisting fathers who themselves want to educate their sons in the great books, and so the emphasis is upon examples of excellence of virtue.