“You know, the very baddest things are dying, and getting killed, and getting eaten, and getting cooked. And kindergarten, that is the next baddest thing.”
-My niece, Izzy, age 5, worrying about her future
Revaluation of Values
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The Partially Examined Life is a philosophy podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode, we pick a text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy. You don't have to know any philosophy, or even to have read the text we're talking about to (mostly) follow and (hopefully) enjoy the discussion. Discuss episodes and provide feedback here or via our Facebook group. You can also e-mail comments to mark@marklint.com or wesalwan@gmail.com.
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#1 by Burl on August 21, 2010 - 1:24 pm
Think the non-philosophicologist, Robert Pirsig, is worth a podcast, perhaps share the event with Whitehead – both pragmatist process thinkers?
I love this site. I was led here by ML when we both commented at the Philsophy Talk post on James.
I too got my MS at UT in back in 1980, and a PhD in civil engineering from Minnesota. Phil is my BIG hobby.
#2 by Burl on August 21, 2010 - 1:26 pm
BTW, forgot that Pirsig says values are the uktimate metaphysical category with the general label of Quality.
#3 by Wes Alwan on August 21, 2010 - 4:14 pm
Izzy is brilliant. She distinguishes the order of badness from the order in which things would have to be done.
@Burl — thanks; we’ll check out Pirsig (and it’s been a long time since I’ve looked at Whitehead).