LUNA's road trip in philosophy
Ol and Val, two Australian philosophers in Paris - and their lucky guests - get into a lively discussion about how to make modern philosophy work - how to get it to work to make sense out of life nowadays.
LUNA's road trip in philosophy
Latest Episodes
Episode 15 in which Luna 'deliminates' Spinoza's project to liberate us from all prejudice
Ol and Val find a back door into Book I of Spinoza's Ethics, making everything a lot easier with some context: the Appendix to Book I where Spinoza critiques our theological prejudices which lead us to imagine God as some kind of super human &n...
Episode 14 in which LUNA meets Spinoza, free-thinking lens-grinder and working class hero
Ol and Val try to figure out why Luna chose to travel just up the road from The Hague to Amsterdam to meet Spinoza and read his book The Ethics.
Episode 13 in which Ol, Val and Eloise get embroiled in a royal situationship between Descartes and Elizabeth of Bohemia
Elizabeth of Bohemia, member of a world-historical family, diplomat, philosopher, convent-founder, friend of religious dissidents, refuser of a compromised marriage, finds a massive problem in Descartes Meditations and thereby founds the modern...
Episode 12 in which LUNA finally makes her way to the very end of Descartes' Meditations
Led astray by impostors of Mr Pleasure and Miss Pain LUNA finds that her body can betray her and tell her to do things which are bad for it: is there any remedy?
Episode 11 in which Ol & Val meet Professor Nature and her two teaching assistants, Pleasure and Pain
Descartes takes Luna back to nature and nature's teachings so as to secure the foundations of our knowledge of the properties of external material bodies - and of "light, sound and pain"!
