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The Wes Cecil Podcast

My lectures are dedicated to making Philosophy in particular and the world of ideas in general available to everyone. My exploration of topics and thinkers is designed to provide a foundation for listeners to engage in further reading and thought and develop their own conceptions of the topics I introduce. I have PhD in Literature and Philosophy and was a college professor for over 20 years. I am working to remove the barriers that prevent many from experiencing and understanding the lives and

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All Episodes

51:00

Primates In Space: Primates Discover Cities - Ep. 5

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/09/22

With the excess food available from the slow transition to Agriculture, cities began to form approximately 12,000 years ago. Nonetheless, as recently as 100 years ago most humans still did not live in urban settings. We are still learning how to adjust both mentally and culturally to putting so many primates in such a small area. Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly

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20:33

Your Philosophy is not Right (Neither is Mine) - Ep. 14

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/09/19

A reflection on the way in which Philosophy and its uses is so often misrepresented as an attempt to be RIGHT. However, this mistakes the power of philosophy and how it can help us understand our lives and our world. Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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44:13

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q7: Where...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/09/17

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q7: Where is the universe?Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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51:20

Primates In Space: Primates Discover Agriculture - Ep. 4

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/09/15

After Art and Tools, Agriculture is clearly one of the most significant breakthroughs in the evolution of human culture. The changes both socially and intellectually necessary to enable a transition to sedentary cereal growing are likely still incomplete. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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23:01

Cultivating The Intellect: Ep. 13

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/09/12

A brief argument for a few habits of mind and time use that are necessary for developing a life of the mind. Not overly prescriptive, but time for quiet reflection, spending time with powerful people that inform and inspire, and creating an outlet for one’s own discoveries are central to experiencing our own power. Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month

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52:01

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q6: What...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/09/10

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q6: What can we learn from nature?Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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33:15

Primates In Space: Primates Discover Art - Ep. 3

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/09/08

Likely more important than tool use and necessary for the development of more sophisticated tools, the development and creation of art marks the fundamental development of the modern mind. Here we see the imagination put to work in ways that fundamentally altered both the world and how we understood and understand the world today. At the very dawn of the Upper Paleolithic the arts become central to human society. Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to

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14:22

Death Of Our Narrative - Ep. 12

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/09/05

It may feel like the end of the world, but it is mostly just the end of our conception of how the world works. When our fundamental values shift then it often undermines our sense of order and prevents the coherent presentation of political arguments. However, and hopefully, it also represents the opening for new ideas and systems to developSign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from

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55:43

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q5: Why...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/09/03

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q5: Why was the past so great?Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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38:21

Primates In Space: Primates Make Tools - Ep. 2

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/09/01

Tool use has evolved more slowly and means something different than has generally been understood. Over three million years of practice with tools led, eventually, to a revolution not so much in tools as in the social structure and mental outlook of the primates we are. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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28:27

Bergson's Day-Planner

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/08/29

Henri Bergson explored the tensions between two different conceptions of time - the objective/scientific and the subjective/experienced. The latter he called la duree’ and, despite being how we sense the world, it has been almost totally overwhelmed by the objective measure as represented by the Day-Planner mindset. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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46:09

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q4: How...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/08/27

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q4: How should we govern?Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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26:07

Primates In Space: Intro - Ep. 1

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/08/25

An introduction to a new series exploring the profound influence our primate heritage has had over milennia in shaping practically every aspect of our world today. A different approach that I hope will open some of the deep structures that shape our understanding of the world. Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to peer conversation, course materials, reading lists, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See

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45:15

Exploitation - Ep. 10

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/08/22

We often think of corporations as primarily destructive for their exploitation of natural resources. However, it is possible that the destruction of the social fabric of countries and communities is even more damaging to our long term health. Yet, this is a little commented on aspect of the Capitalist worldview.Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to peer conversation, course materials, reading lists, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France

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53:06

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q3: How...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/08/20

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q3: How should people live?Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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26:39

Plato's Symposium: The End - Ep. 14

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/08/18

A few thoughts to take us out. Most importantly Plato provides a model - as well as a trap - for us as we pursue philosophy and thinking in general. Thanks to everyone who read along with me!Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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46:58

Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom - Ep. 9

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/08/15

Our society's obsession with Data and Information leads to a series of systematic errors in both our understanding of the world and how we approach all kinds of problems we face. We refuse to accept that DATA and INFORMATION cannot solve what are fundamentally ethical problems. In any case, many of our challenges are not soluble but aspects of the human condition that can only be addressed in different ways depending on circumstances.Image attribution: SketchplanationsSign-up forWes’s PATREONto get

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54:49

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q2: What...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/08/13

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q2: What the hell is going on?Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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39:54

Plato's Symposium: Tracking The Influence 2 - Ep. 13

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/08/11

Other than our concept of Romantic Love, Body Soul Split, Self-Improvement and Truth, Plato really has had no influence at all . . . I mean, Plato is just everywhere - I mean EVERYWHERE!Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:00:40

Plato's Symposium: Q & A #2 - Ep. 12

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/08/08

Wes and Jeremy take questions from PATRON members on Plato's Symposium Lectures 4-11Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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