Does virtue change? Do cultures make progress in understanding virtue? Might “Eye of the Tiger” represent a regress? Drama! Notes: http://top40philosophy.com/ep13notes Previous episode | Next episode Featured image by Christine Sponchia. Provided under a CC0 Public Domain license.

What is the connection between free will, creativity, and redemption? Are they possible? How do they work? Notes: http://top40philosophy.com/ep12notes Previous episode | Next episode Featured image by Timothy Krause. Provided under a CC Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

Are emotions active or passive? Do we impose them on the world, or does the world impose them on us? Also, the difference between harmony and counterpoint. Notes: http://top40philosophy.com/ep11notes Previous episode | Next episode Featured image by Paul Padshewscky. Provided under a CC Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic license.

Does death give life urgency and meaning, or mean that nothing makes a lasting difference? It’s the Easter season, so what if we believe in reincarnation or resurrection? Notes: http://top40philosophy.com/ep10notes Previous episode | Next episode Featured image by PeterTea. Provided under a CC Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic license.

Do you love or hate your roots? Is anyone self-consistent? And can postmodernism help? Notes: http://top40philosophy.com/ep9notes Previous episode | Next episode Featured image by fatherspoon. Provided under a CC Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic license.

Theme: dependent identity. Topics: cultural appropriation, three kinds of signs, and personal identity. Notes: http://top40philosophy.com/ep8notes Previous episode | Next episode Featured image by Filip Kruchlik. Provided under a CC0 Public Domain license.

What are the three types of knowledge? Is it people, place, or culture that makes a state? And what is the value of stories? Notes: http://top40philosophy.com/ep7notes Previous episode | Next episode Featured image by Mat Weller

Manipulation: subliminal messages, the equivalence of physical and emotional pain, and the problem of proportional punishment. Notes: http://top40philosophy.com/ep6notes Previous episode | Next episode Featured image by Russ2009. Provided under a CC Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic license.

Where does music come from? Why are notes “higher” and “lower”? And why is reason “higher” than emotion? Perhaps it’s all in the human body. Notes: http://top40philosophy.com/ep5notes Previous episode | Next episode Featured image by Eva Rinaldi. Provided under a CC Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license.

What does it mean to steal someone else’s intellectual property? What if Plato, Aristotle, or Ockham was right about identity? How do names actually work? (For real this time.) Notes: http://top40philosophy.com/ep4notes Previous episode | Next episode Featured image by Lisa Johnson. Provided under a CC0 Public Domain license.