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The Prometheans

A space where ideas ignite. In this podcast, we sit down with thinkers, creators, and experts to explore the questions that matter; from philosophy to politics to art and human nature. It’s a dialogue of reason, curiosity, and courage.

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93 episodes

  1. #94: Marxism and Liberalism: Can Freedom and Equality Coexist? | Matt McManus 28:19
  2. #93: Kafka’s The Trial: Are We Guilty Without Knowing Why? | Professor Espen Hammer 43:34
  3. #92: Can We Know Right from Wrong? | Walter Sinnott-Armstrong 34:09
  4. #91: Plato and Democracy: Did the Ancient Philosopher Predict the Death of Democracy? Angie Hobbs 49:19
  5. #90: Shakespeare’s Spiritual Secret: Did His Plays Reveal Something Beyond the Human? | Ewan Fernie 49:52
  6. #89: Does God’s Foreknowledge Destroy Human Freedom? | Katherin Rogers 33:54
  7. #88: Rethinking Existentialism: Freedom, Meaning, and the Search for Authenticity | Jonathan Webber 41:02
  8. #87: 500+ Theories of Mind, 9 Levels of Nothing: Robert Lawrence Kuhn on Reality's Last Mysteries 1:28:45
  9. #86: Viktor Frankl: Can Suffering Have Meaning? | Alexander Batthyány 51:28
  10. #85: What Is Madness? Psychiatry, Power & the Human Mind — Andrew Scull 1:22:16
  11. #84: The Historical Muhammad ﷺ: Prophet, Politician, Warrior — Can Faith & Critical History Agree? 59:20
  12. #83: What Makes Humans Different from AI? Consciousness, and the Future of Humanity | Mihretu Guta 1:01:32
  13. #82: Martin Luther: Revolutionary or Medieval? The Real Roots of the Reformation | Dr. Volker Leppin 32:14
  14. 81: Is Life Really Meaningless? Camus, the Absurd & the Search for Meaning | Anthony J. Rudd 53:10
  15. #80: Fate, the Oracle & Free Will: Did the Greeks Believe in Genuine Agency? Prof. Esther Eidinow 38:56
  16. #79: Are Miracles Being Suppressed? Dale Allison on NDEs, ESP & the Supernatural 50:27
  17. #78: Beyond Broicism: What Seneca, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius Actually Taught | Dr. Gregory Sadler 58:12
  18. #77: Was Freud Right All Along? Neuroscientist Mark Solms Reopens the Case 52:43
  19. #76: What If Matter Doesn't Exist? Howard Robinson on Idealism 33:26
  20. #75: The Death of Magic: Modernity, Myth, and the Disenchanted World | Sharon Blackie 30:58
  21. #74: Frantz Fanon: Why Colonialism Still Lives in Our Minds | Lewis Gordon 1:12:59
  22. #73: Is the Rumi You Know Even Rumi? | 25 Years Translating the Masnavi — Jawid Mojaddedi 44:13
  23. #72: Where Did the Greek Gods Come From? The World Before Zeus | Jenny Strauss Clay 48:02
  24. #71: Revelations of the Unseen | ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Jilani, & the Spiritual Path | Dr. Louay Fatoohi 53:00
  25. #70: Socrates in the Apology | C.D.C. Reeve 33:09
  26. #69: The Waste Land: The Poem That Changed Literature Forever | Prof. Jayme Stayer 41:15
  27. #68: Is Sufism the Soul of Islam? The Hidden Path to God and the Self | Filip Holm 58:43
  28. #67: Is Something Good Because God Commands It? | Nicholas D. Smith on Plato's Euthyphro 40:39
  29. #66: Should AI Have Rights? | David J. Gunkel 49:09
  30. #65: The Biggest Lie About Thomas Hobbes & the Origins of Leviathan | A. P. Martinich 31:51
  31. #64: Evil Doesn't Need Monsters" Hannah Arendt & The Banality of Evil | Roger Berkowitz 1:00:22
  32. #63: Does Morality Require God? Kant's Categorical Imperative Explained | Prof. John E. Hare 36:14
  33. #62: The Religion of Socrates | Mark McPherran on the God-Haunted Rationalist 33:45
  34. #61: Are We More Than Our Brains? Free Will and the Nature of Reality | Dr. Nathan Hawkins 46:11
  35. #60: Do Near-Death Experiences Prove the Afterlife? | Dr. Max Baker-Hytch 37:28
  36. #59: Maududi & the Making of Political Islam: Theo-Democracy, & the Islamic State | Humeira Iqtidar 1:11:05
  37. #58: Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and War: A Historian's Verdict | Prof. Joel Hayward 1:55:34
  38. #57: The Philosophy of Confucius: Virtue, Wisdom & the Good Life | Prof. Stephen Angle 39:52
  39. #56: Kierkegaard on Anxiety, Despair, Faith, and How to Live | Gordon Marino 51:20
  40. #55: 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West 1:09:16
  41. #54: Are We Creating the Next Gods? | James Tartaglia 43:01
  42. #53: The Brothers Karamazov: God, Evil, and the Price of Human Freedom | Gregory Sadler 1:14:41
  43. #52: Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson | Matt McManus 47:36
  44. #51: Spirits Are Real — A Philosopher's Case | Dr. Hans van Eyghen on The Epistemology of Spirits 44:31
  45. #50: On Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot | Prof. Nick Mount 54:43
  46. #49: Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution | Todd McGowan 46:23
  47. #48: Islam Built Europe — Then Europe Erased It | Tharik Hussain 1:00:22
  48. #47: Is Morality Objective? | David Enoch 48:23
  49. #46: Jung & God: Does Psychology Explain Religion or Confirm It? | Dr. Murray Stein 55:05
  50. #45: Dr. Darren Staloff on Nietzsche's Critique of Historical Consciousness 51:23