Philosophy Digestion

Philosophy Digestion

History's best thought influencers left behind top content for us to consume and Philosophy Digestion is where we bring you the greatest highlights. We'll be feasting on the stories and crimes they don't cover in Philosophy classes or history textbooks. Each episode, we a roast a historic icon over their ideas in science, politics, philosophy or whatever (hot takes and speculation welcome), while looking in their back yards for any corpses they may have had hidden in their creek / New Episodes Thursdays / Philosophy Digestion is recorded in Westcoast-Simple American-English / Follow the host on Instagram and TikToc @ JohnGavinTLDR / Catch you later / Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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September 5, 2022 38 mins

On this outstanding podcast, our host explores the mystical philosophy of every one's favorite theorem: the Pythagorean theorem.

While you may know that A squared plus B squared equals C squared, you probably don't know that Pythagoras was a full-on cult leader that married himself to children, killed his insubordinates, and got an entire village to burn his commune down.


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Join us this week for another iconic philosopher, the father of AMERICAN FREEDOM, and the inventor of extreme ownership: JOHN LOCKE.


We talk about individual liberty, liberal and conservative snowflakes, as well as the Others who scared Locke into exile on his own island. Check out the ideas behind both the new Democratic Order of the USA and the inspiration behind a main character in the hit CBS television drama LOST.


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May 6, 2022 32 mins

On this epic and iconic podcast episode, we are covering the #1 content creator to-day: William Shakespeare and the philosophy behind his work.

Cut to the 1590s. The mono-culture is back, and we have a high idea of society.


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April 22, 2022 38 mins

This week on Philosophy Digest, we are outlining the two kinds of people Nietzsche saw in his 19th century German world, his opium addiction and mental breakdown as well as his Nazi sister's philosophical appropriation of Nietzsche's ideas in the name of the National Socialists Nazi Party.


She was a master who tried to control others, and he was a slave to his own poor mental health.

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PART II of II

what happens to the child king?

On this digestion, we are recapping the philosophy employed by humanity through the last millennium: the years 1000-2000, how history's kings tended to cease power and how the island of the not-so-United-Kingdom inspired the iconic HBO series Game of Thrones. We meet Shakespeare characters and deep dive into the social workings of that one European island that almost controlled the worl...

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On this digestion, we are recapping the philosophy employed by humanity through the last millennium: the years 1000-2000, how history's kings tended to cease power and how the island of the not-so-United-Kingdom inspired the iconic HBO series Game of Thrones. We meet Shakespeare characters and deep dive into the social workings of that one European island that almost controlled the world.


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March 31, 2022 22 mins

Van Life (and death) of Socrates Part II: Law and Order


"I never saw it coming, nor would I have suspected it; I underestimated just who I was dealing with!

The Senate's gonna find:

Stealing other people's rights on the playground

Won't make you many friends

They should keep in mind, / They should keep in mind

There is nothing I do better than revenge, ha"


-Socrates, The Apology


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March 30, 2022 25 mins

Part I of II


The Van Life and Death of Socrates episodes chronicle the words and wisdom of the OG western philosopher Socrates, the ugly. We're gonna touch on the spirit world; Socrates' producer, Plato; and their creative network, "the academy."


But first we focus on the values behind getting a van down by the river, why they are timeless and tied to Socrates, and how the philosophy of the van is eventually what would lead...

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March 24, 2022 42 mins
On this true crime pilot, we fly back to 1920, WWII, and France to explore the work of classic existential feminist icon, Simone De Beauvoir. And while we were poking around in her business, we found some not-so-secret-heinous crimes on her hands that all our philosophy and women's studies classes forgot to mention in their power points? listen up to find out what's gone down.

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