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The episode covers the first half of book 2.

This episode finishes book one of the Daodejing.

The episode starts the first part of the Daodejing.

This episode takes about two poems that deal with the foundation of the Zhou kingdom and of the people's move from nomads to settlers.

This episode looks at two poems dealing with the common people. One deals with their everyday concerns, and the other, their view of war.

This episode discusses some of the elements of poetry and the difficulty of translation.

This episode covers these books and recaps some of his main ideas. It also looks a little to the contemporary world.

This episode dives more into the Analects.

This episode starts the season and the series of episodes about Confucius.

This episode rounds out season two and introduces season three.

This episode discusses how politicians use the various media through the 20th century to spread their ideologies.

This episode discusses how the two systems did what their founders warned against.

This episode looks at social media and the pressures to fictionalize our lives for the world.

This episode looks at Camus' philosophy and his rejection of nihilism.

This episode looks at science fiction and it's predictions and sometimes warnings about where the world is heading.

This episode looks at Singer as someone who brings philosophy to the non philosopher.

This episode looks at two of his poems and discusses how poetry is able to engage a wide rage of topics relevant to modern life.

This episode looks at her essay The Perplexities of the Rights of Man and how her ideas are grounded in realities then and now.

This episode looks at the post modern novel American Psycho, and examines how it exposes the dark side of the 1980s glitter.

This episode briefly talks about education and democracy.

This episode goes into how the film both covers ideas in philosophy and in post modernism.

This episode introduces his early and late works.

Thus episode looks at the predictions of the novel and compares them to the world today.

This episode gives a brief introduction to Heidegger and also raises the question of his murky past.

This episode discusses the book not only as an anti war novel but also as a post modern and psychological work.

This episode gets into a little of James' ideas in psychology, philosophy, and literature.

This episode covers the poem by Hughes and talks about how poetry and politics are often intertwined and at odds.

This episode talks about Analytic Philosophy and its focus on logic.

This episode traces the rise of the counterculture through literature and music from the 20s to the 60s and beyond.

This episode starts to introduce a little more the foundations of Existentialism.

This episode talks about how Dostoevsky was influential in both fields and how multiple fields influence and borrow from each other.

This episode looks at the three main branches of philosophy in the 20th century.

This episode looks at the influence of comics and other popular literature on social issues.

This episode covers a few of Nietzsche's ideas and their relevance to later philosophy and history.

This episode covers Nin and some of the shifts made by writers like her in the 20th century.

This episode discusses Schopenhauer and his connection to both western and eastern philosophy.

This episode talks about the connections of the film to both political events of the time and the reduction of women to plot devices in that era.

This episode touches on some of the criticisms of Marx about capitalism.

This episode discusses the novel and its connections with modernism.

This episode talks about Hegel's ideas and how he connects to both literature and philosophy.

This episode discusses modernist poetry through Eliot's Waste Land.

This episode talks about Kant and his view of the problems of philosophy in his time and his influences on the future thinkers.

This episode outlines the differences and continuities between realism and naturalism. It also talks about the direction that the podcast will be taking.

This episode deals with Hume and his empiricism and skepticism.

This episode looks at a couple of American realist and give a brief look at Flaubert. It also talks about historical and cultural shifts.

This episode talks about Rousseau's Social Contract and some of the ways it influenced political thinkers after him.

This episode talks about the shift in Victorian literature from the individual of Romanticism to the social connection and critique of the Victorian writers Browning and Dickens.

This episode shifts from Locke's importance as a political philosopher to his foundation of Empiricism in the British tradition of philosophy.

This episode discusses the transition from Romanticism to Realism in English, French, Russian, and American literatures.

This episode talks about the influence of Descartes on the two and how even though they take the same position as a foundation, they come up with different ideas about the ideal system.