Very Bad Wizards

Episode 222: Choosing Sartre for All Mankind

Oct 5, 2021

01:37:49

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The Existentialist Says That Man Is in Anguish

01:56

Action Is the Only Thing That Matters

01:37

Ther Noander, Nor Higer, Capricious.

02:34

Introduction

2min

I Feel the Pressure, for Being Too Awake

2min

It's Not Coddling for Me, but Not for You.

2min

The Stakin James Lindsey of Rap

2min

How Much Free Time Isn't Bad for You?

2min

Is Your Free Time Productive?

2min

The Curviliniar Effect of Social Activities

2min

How Much Free Time Do You Have?

6min

Is There a Sweet Spot When You Have Too Much Free Time?

2min

10.

You Just Need a Hobby

2min

11.

How to Make Yourself Feel Good About the Free Time

1min

12.

I Love Reading, but I Don't Know What I Got Out of It

2min

13.

I'm Ok With Wasting My Time

2min

14.

I've Been Hooked on Melik

2min

15.

How to Unload Stress in Relationships

4min

16.

How to Support Very Bad Wizards

2min

17.

Five Dollars an Nup - You Get to Vote on an Episode Topic

2min

18.

I'll Have Three, Crisanda Creson, Like That?

2min

19.

What's Your History With Existentialism More Generally?

3min

20.

I've Read a Lot of Sart, but I've Never Read Much of His Work.

3min

21.

I Think He's Responding to People's Criticisms of Existentialism - I'm Not Going to Summarize, but I Think It's Useful

2min

22.

Is There a Predicament of Choice?

2min

23.

Isn't It Bad Faith to Say, Oh, That Was Determined?

2min

24.

Is There a Universal Guide Book for What It Means to Be Human?

2min

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Is There a God?

2min

26.

Ays, the First Effect of Existentialism

2min

27.

I Think He's Not Participating in the Debate, Right?

3min

28.

Chess Is Free

3min

29.

The Choice of the Emotions

2min

30.

The Contien Imperative Rightitism

3min

31.

The Existentialist Says That Man Is in Anguish

2min

32.

A Student Comes to Start and Has to Make This Big Decision

4min

33.

Action Is the Only Thing That Matters

2min

34.

Why Systems of Ethics Can't Tell You What to Do

2min

35.

Do You Abandon Your Mother to Go Fight for Your Country?

2min

36.

Ignore the Universal Liability Point of Existentialism

2min

37.

You Can't Decide to Fly

2min

38.

The Aesthetic Value Vers Moral Value

2min

39.

Pacaso's Values

2min

40.

Are You Not Afraid to Judge Others?

3min

41.

Ther Noander, Nor Higer, Capricious.

3min

42.

Is There a Difference Between Art and Existentialism?

2min

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Is There a Difference Between Existential Sources and Non-Fictional Sources?

2min

44.

Is There a Difference Between a Short Story and a Play?

2min

David and Tamler don black turtlenecks and light up a couple of Gauloises to talk about Jean Paul Sartre's classic essay “Existentialism is a Humanism.” Why are choices so fundamental to our experience? What does Sartre mean when he says that “existence precedes essence”? Why does he try to shoehorn universalizability into a view that’s clearly hostile to it?

Plus, how much free time is good for you? Is that even the right question?

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