PHIL 3160 – Philosophy of Happiness

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Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Stephen West on Montaigne

 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/philosophize-this/id659155419?i=1000313846159


Wanted to share this podcast I found today from the somewhat popular show "Philosophize This" by creator Stephen West. 

In this episode from 2014, he does cover the near-death experience of Montaigne in the beginning (so feel free to fly past a couple minutes) but also discusses the significant roles that skepticism and even cynicism played in Montaigne's life.  This wasn't something that I have thought much about during the book but found it to be an interesting perspective nonetheless. 

2 comments:

  1. Nor have I thought of him as cynical, certainly not in the contemporary sense (by which people typically just mean negative, unenthusiastic, uncommitted etc.)... but in the antiquarian sense of a Diogenes, someone who distances himself from the conventions of his particular time and place, he is a bit of a cynic. On the other hand, he was a public magistrate and tried to be (or at least seem) an upstanding member of his community. Nobody ever said that about Diogenes.

    But thanks for the podcast.

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  2. Love "Philosophize This." Thanks for the episode.

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