In this episode I explore the concept of meditation as epistemology. I talk at length about my own recent experience with my meditation and the astounding benefits and insights into the mind that have followed. Patreon: Patreon.com/ChameleonPhilosophyPodcastTwitter: @ChameleonPhiloEmail: [email protected]: ChameleonPhilosophyPodcast.podbean.comRate us on Itunes or Overcast wherever you listen to podcasts

In this episode I explore the similarities and differences in the political philosophies of Thomas Jefferson and Karl Marx. Even though they start from fundamentally different axioms, their political utopian goals are similar. Rule of self sufficient proletarians! Patreon: Patreon.com/ChameleonPhilosophyPodcastTwitter: @ChameleonPhiloEmail: [email protected]: ChameleonPhilosophyPodcast.podbean.comRate us on Itunes or Overcast wherever you listen to podcasts

This episode is the third episode in a series where I discuss Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions. In this episode I discuss the role of luck in morality. Should we be judged for accidents? Or being morally unlucky? Or should we even be judged at all? Does moral responsibility exist in a deterministic world?https://www.amazon.com/Mortal-Questions-Canto-Classics-Thomas/dp/1107604710/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=PYW1G08XFND4VBBSDN9Z Patreon: Patreon.com/ChameleonPhilosophyPodcastTwitter: @ChameleonPhiloEmail: [email protected]: ChameleonPhilosophyPodcast.podbean.comRate us on Itunes or Overcast wherever you listen to podcasts

In this episode I analyze Ben Shapiro's 'The Right Side of History'. I have always found it important as a liberal to read conservative material, especially those that are at the helm conservative thought like Ben Shapiro. I thoroughly enjoyed this book even though I disagreed with about 70-80% of it and virulently disagreed with the last two chapters. Patreon: Patreon.com/ChameleonPhilosophyPodcastTwitter: @ChameleonPhiloEmail: [email protected]: ChameleonPhilosophyPodcast.podbean.comRate us on Itunes or Overcast wherever you listen to podcasts

This episode is the second episode in a series where I discuss Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions. In this episode I discuss the Absurd. What is the experience of the Absurd? Is it positive? Negative? Both? What can we learn from facing the Absurd? https://www.amazon.com/Mortal-Questions-Canto-Classics-Thomas/dp/1107604710/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=PYW1G08XFND4VBBSDN9Z Patreon: Patreon.com/ChameleonPhilosophyPodcastTwitter: @ChameleonPhiloEmail: [email protected]: ChameleonPhilosophyPodcast.podbean.comRate us on Itunes or Overcast wherever you listen to podcasts

This episode is the first episode in a series where I discuss Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions. In this episode I discuss chapter 1, Death. Is death bad? How bad? What's the best way to view death? How does immortality affect our views of death?Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions:https://www.amazon.com/Mortal-Questions-Canto-Classics-Thomas/dp/1107604710/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=PYW1G08XFND4VBBSDN9Z Patreon: Patreon.com/ChameleonPhilosophyPodcastTwitter: @ChameleonPhiloEmail: [email protected]: ChameleonPhilosophyPodcast.podbean.comRate us on Itunes or Overcast wherever you listen to podcasts

In this episode I discuss the ethics of de-extinction and bringing back the Woolly Mammoth. I also discuss the ethics of bringing back extinct human species like Homo Denisovans and Homo Neanderthalis. Twitter: @ChameleonPhiloEmail: [email protected]: ChameleonPhilosophyPodcast.podbean.comPatreon: Patreon.com/ChameleonPhilosophyPodcastRate us on Itunes or Overcast wherever you listen to podcasts

In this episode I discuss moral responsibility/moral objectivism and the role of intuitions in justifying positions within moral discourse. This episode is heavily influenced by Tamler Sommer's chapter on intuitions in the book Relative Justice. I argue that intuitions form the basis of many moral claims and through cross-cultural study we have learned that some of our most basic moral intuitions are not shared by people of other cultures. Twitter: @ChamelonPhiloEmail: [email protected]: ChameleonPhilosophyPodcast.podbean.comPatreon: Patreon.com/ChameleonPhilosophyPodcastRate us on Itunes or Overcast wherever you listen to podcasts

First I have to give credit to this Aeon piece which inspired the episode: https://aeon.co/essays/aztec-moral-philosophy-didnt-expect-anyone-to-be-a-saintIn this episode I cover Aztec religion and ethics and its similarities and differences with Aristotelian Virtue ethics. This is a brief overview of how ethics can develop so differently based on the culture of the civilization.Twitter: @ChamelonPhiloEmail: [email protected]: ChameleonPhilosophyPodcast.podbean.comPatreon: Patreon.com/ChameleonPhilosophyPodcastRate us on Itunes or Overcast wherever you listen to podcasts

Thanks to @limitedinc3 for inspiration for this episode and the Willetts magazine article http://willettsmag.net/capitalism-socialism-and-the-ethos-of-integrity/. In this episode I discuss political ideology of Red Toryism. What are its goals, what is it trying to solve? I discuss the integrity of the artisan, the alienating influence of capitalism, the economics of distributism and the goal of a harmonious and united society. Twitter: @ChamelonPhiloEmail: [email protected]: ChameleonPhilosophyPodcast.podbean.comPatreon: Patreon.com/ChameleonPhilosophyPodcastRate us on Itunes or Overcast wherever you listen to podcasts