Meditations with Zohar

Nick Gillespie: Autonomy and Empathy S1 E6

Apr 20, 2022

01:34:06

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Are We Qualitative Authority in American Fiction?

03:47

I Love the Idea of Autonomy

03:12

Is It Possible to Really Dismiss Teleology?

04:37

Introduction

3min

The Limits of Knowledge Systems

3min

Libertarian Philosophy and Post Modernism - The Best That We Can Know

1min

The Language of Rights Is Fundamental to Classical Liberalism

5min

What I Like About Novels and Fictions

2min

Are We Qualitative Authority in American Fiction?

4min

Benjamin and the Arcades Project

2min

I Think the Experimentation in Art Forms Is Kind of an End in Itself

3min

Libertarians and Race, Class, en Gender

5min

10.

I Was a Child of the Seventies, and I Loved the Idea of Individualism

3min

11.

Libertarianism - What Do You Think?

2min

12.

The Question About Politics, You Know?

5min

13.

Meditations With Zohar, Sponsored by Cometeer, Favorite Coffee

2min

14.

I Think That's a Brilliant Reading of David Foster Wallace

2min

15.

The Limits of Our Knowledge and Meaning

5min

16.

Is It Possible to Really Dismiss Teleology?

5min

17.

Post Modern Writing

5min

18.

What Is a Day in the Life of a Libertarian?

2min

19.

Is Libertarianism a Political Philosophy?

6min

20.

Is Legitimacy Possible?

5min

21.

You Don't Have to Throw Out Standards of Reginality

2min

22.

Post Modernism, Is It Anti Enlightenment?

5min

23.

Ampathy Is Undervalued in Both Daily Life and in Culture

4min

24.

Is There Any Argument That Shakes Your Libertarian Views?

4min

25.

I Love the Idea of Autonomy

3min

26.

What a Wonderful Confluence of Individual Action and Technology

3min

27.

The University's Loss Is Is or Gain With You

3min

This week, Zohar is joined by Nick Gillespie, public intellectual and editor at large of Reason Magazine, to discuss creative disruption, the legacy of David Foster Wallace, why libertarians and postmodernists should be friends, the underestimated importance of art and culture in politics, and how to live with epistemic humility.

Meditations with Zohar is sponsored by Cometeer, an exceptional new coffee company using cutting-edge technology to preserve and deliver specialty coffee in its purest, most original form. Use the link cometeer.com/zohar to get $20 off your first order.

Read more from Zohar in his Torah newsletter Etz Hasadeh or his philosophy newsletter What is Called Thinking.

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