Front Porch Philosophy

Mike airs his grievances about Daylight Saving Time and he and Garrett talk about how setting our clocks forward an hour presents a great opportunity to reexaime our relationship to time.

Inspired once again by the show Severance, Garrett and Mike discuss "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", a novella by Leo Tolstoy, and how it shows us what it means to live a full life.

Mike asks Garrett a few questions about technology today, the nature of time, and what love might be.

Garrett and Mike discuss the hit Apple TV show Severance and some of the philosophical questions that it raises about the Self.

Today, Garrett and Mike drink some new whiskey and think about the impact that the idea of becoming has on their previous discussion of Be, Do, Have.

Garrett and Mike return to The Dream of a Ridiculous Man to see what it may tell us about how experience can lead us to simple truth.

This episode, two ridiculous men, Garrett and Mike, discuss the short story "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Link to the story online: https://gustavus.edu/threecrowns/files/The%20Dream%20of%20a%20Ridiculous%20Man,%20Fyodor%20Dostoevsky.pdf

Garrett and Mike discuss a little Nietzsche and what he thinks about thinking for yourself. You could listen to him. Or not. He'd maybe prefer it that way.

Podcast Mentioned:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/philosophize-this/id659155419?i=1000670317546

Garrett and Mike discuss the idea of bare life from Byung-Chul Han's essay "The Agony of Eros" and how thinking about the concept can help us reexamine our "why."

Books Mentioned:

The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

Movies Mentioned:

The Jungle Book

Garrett and Mike talk about how some new golf lessons can apply to everyday life.

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