The Wes Cecil Podcast

We continually tell ourselves stories about every aspect of our lives. Taking a little time to reflect on the stories we tell ourselves is often quite revelatory about how our thinking is directed and...

7 Nov 202520min

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q14: What is this science thing?Now my method, though hard to practice, is easy to explain; and it is this. I propose to establish progressive stages of cer...

6 Nov 202553min

While the industrial revolution is widely recognized as a turning point in human history, less well appreciated is why it has been so influential. Each of the developments were undoubtedly important, ...

3 Nov 202545min

Two famous works that critiqued the Moral structure of turn of the century French society did so in entirely different ways. While Gide is more known for his critique, I argue Proust’s critique is far...

31 Okt 202531min

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q13: Enlightened?We can see from this that the sovereign power, absolute, sacred and inviolable as it is, does not and cannot exceed the limits of general c...

29 Okt 202547min

The combination of new crops, new outlooks, new technologies but, most importantly, the expansion of the primate intellectual and imaginative capacities led to the explosive growth in human population...

28 Okt 202539min

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q12: What was reborn?1374 death of Petrarch 1413 Brunelleschi systematizes perspective 1439 Movable Press 1492 Columbus 1514 More's Utopia and Machiavell...

22 Okt 202546min

Despite the general acknowledgement of the importance of the printing press, I argue that why the press had such an impact is largely misunderstood. The printing press was the technology that most pow...

20 Okt 202550min