Western Moral Philosophy For Beginners

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Heraclitus - Panta Rei

2025-09-1714:13

eraclitus on Change and the Search for BalanceWhat if the very thing that unsettles you—change—is also the key to inner steadiness? In our debut episode on Philosophy Now! we trek back to Ephesus (circa 500 BCE) to meet Heraclitus, the loner philosopher who claimed that “all things flow” and that “character is fate.” His surviving fragments—fewer than a hundred cryptic lines hit harder than ever in an era of 24-hour news cycles and zero-sum reasoning.Produced by Selenius Media - the team behind Philosophy for Beginners.

Dante: Divine Comedy & Beyond

2025-09-1710:06

Dante: Divine Comedy & BeyondWhat can poetry teach us about philosophy? In this episode of Philosophy for Beginners, we turn to Dante Alighieri, the Florentine poet whose Divine Comedy is both a masterpiece of literature and a map of the human soul.Guided by reason and faith, Dante journeys through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, weaving together classical philosophy and Christian theology into a vision of justice, morality, and love. His work reveals how poetry can become philosophy in action — confronting vice, guiding virtue, and pointing toward the highest good.Join us as we follow Dante’s epic path and explore how his poetic imagination continues to illuminate timeless questions about human destiny and truth.

John Locke

2025-09-1713:38

In this episode of Philosophy for Beginners, we turn to John Locke (1632–1704), the philosopher of liberty and natural rights. In his Two Treatises of Government, Locke argued that all people are born with rights to life, liberty, and property, and that governments exist only to protect those rights. If rulers become tyrants, the people have the right to resist. His Essay Concerning Human Understanding advanced the idea that the mind is a “blank slate,” shaped by experience and education. Locke’s defense of toleration and consent became a cornerstone of modern democracy and influenced revolutions across the world.Produced by Selenius Media – Music by The Artificial Laboratory.

Albert Camus

2025-10-1014:47

Albert Camus was born in 1913 in Mondovi, French Algeria. His background was humble: his father was an agricultural worker who died in World War I when Camus was a baby, and his illiterate mother of Spanish origin raised him in a poor neighborhood of Algiers. Despite hardship (they lived in a two-room apartment; Camus later said he never forgot the silent suffering of his mother, which informed his outlook on human resilience), Camus excelled in school. He was a bright, athletic young man – passionate about football (soccer) and the outdoors of the Mediterranean.Selenius Media & The Artificial Laboratory

Western Moral Philosophy for Beginners Trailer

2025-11-2734:05

Western Moral Philosophy for Beginners TrailerIn every age, people have asked the same questions:What is the good life?How should we treat one another?What does it mean to be free, or virtuous, or just?Western Moral Philosophy for Beginners takes you on a guided journey through the minds that shaped the moral backbone of the West — from the earliest Greek thinkers to the modern age.These aren’t dry classroom summaries.They’re lived stories — of struggle, ambition, conflict, revelation — all unfolding against the sweep of history.If you’ve ever wanted to understand philosophy clearly, calmly, and humanly…If you want to know not just what these thinkers argued, but why it mattered…This is your starting point.Follow Western Moral Philosophy for Beginners today.And explore more at Selenius Media.

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