Egg Timer Philosophy

This episode of the egg timer tackles the question: what are rights?  In order to answer this question the relationship between rights and obligations is cracked open.  

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If you knew every physical fact about the world but had only experienced the confines of a black and white room would you learn anything new when you see a ripe red tomato for the first time?  This episode of the egg timer considers this thought experiment and the threats to the physicalist world view that it poses.

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This episode of the egg timer delves into the depths of Nirvana through Buddha's third and fourth noble truths.  This episode is a continuation of last week's episode that explored Buddha's first and second noble truths.

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This episode of the egg timer takes a look at Buddha's first and second noble truths.  Particular attention will be given to the idea of attachment.

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How should the state be defined?  This episode of the egg timer takes a look at Max Weber's influential attempt to answer this question. 

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Is believing that God exists a good rational bet to place?  Blaise Pascal thought so.  This episode of the egg timer takes a closer look at this divine wager.

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This episode of the egg timer takes a look at Jean Paul Sartre's notions of bad faith and authenticity.  Many claim to value freedom a great deal but bad faith threatens to make that valuing an act of self-deception.  The roots of this self-deception are explores as well as whether authenticity offers a path to genuine freedom.

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This episode of the egg timer is devoted to existential philosophy.  In particular Sartre's existential slogan that 'existence proceeds essence' will be discussed and its implications explored.

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This episode of the egg timer is devoted to Plato's infamous allegory of the cave.  

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Can God make a rock so big that He cannot lift it?  This episode of the egg timer explores the answer that Thomas Aquinas gave to this seeming paradox.

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