The School of Athens

A philosophy podcast delivered by young (and fun!) philosophers to young (and equally fun!) philosophers. We attempt to break down the traditional image of philosophers as two young girls, who share their own insights, sometimes disagreeing and sometimes broadening each other's understanding.

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Update frequency: every 15 days
Average duration: 19 minutes
Episodes: 7
Years Active: 2022 - 2023

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Lesson 6: The Ontological Argument and Pascal's Wager

In today's lesson, we critically talk about Anselm's ontological argument and Pascal's Wager. We explore Gaunilo's 'Lost Island' as a refute to Anselm. Our verdict is that both Anselm and Pascal have…

00:16:04 | Sat 25 Mar 2023

Lesson 5: Fatalism

Hi! Following our last episode about determinism, we are talking about fatalism in this one! And we mean logical fatalism, which is illustrated by Aristotle's sea battle argument. We explain what thi…

00:15:39 | Thu 09 Mar 2023

Lesson 4: Determinism and Free Will

This week, we question the extent of our free will, looking at the views of hard determinists, libertarians, and compatibilists. We have some interesting examples and scenarios to illustrate these vi…

00:21:50 | Sat 18 Feb 2023

Lesson 3: Mind and Body

Continuing from Plato's views on the mind and body from last episode, this week, we discuss dualism... and a bit of everything else. We expand on Plato a bit with his charioteer analogy and on Descar…

00:24:58 | Sat 04 Feb 2023

Lesson 2: The Socratic Philosophers

We are back! Having set ourselves the challenge to summarise the three famous Socratic philosophers in twenty minutes, we talk about the key ideas of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. We begin with 'The…

00:23:37 | Fri 20 Jan 2023

Lesson 1: Existentialism

In our first episode, we introduce existentialism. We argue who the 'it girl' of existentialism is: is it Sartre, his boo Beauvoir, Kierkegaard or Nietzsche? Lea argues for her guy Kierkegaard (with …

00:25:09 | Fri 30 Dec 2022

Welcome to The School of Athens!

Introducing the teachers Lea & Estelle and their fun and quirky philosophy podcast 'The School of Athens'!