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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

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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44:17

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q1: What...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/08/06

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q1: What the hell happened?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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49:39

Plato's Symposium: Tracking The Influence - Ep. 11

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/08/04

The influence of Plato grows from the repeated introduction of Platonic ideas into Catholicism, Calvinism, Humanism, Romanacism, Enlightenment thought and even Scientific Rationalism. Platonic ideals surround us in so many ways it is difficult to actually narrow our focus to a few key points.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

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50:58

Plato's Symposium: Q & A #1 - Ep. 5

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/08/01

Wes and Jeremy take questions from Patreon members on Plato's Symposium, Lectures 1 - 4Sign-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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44:27

A Reflection on Taoism: - Ep. 8

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/07/30

Our culture in theory tells us not to be stressed and filled with anxiety yet structurally virtually guarantees we will feel this way. Taoism works the other way around and singles out stress and anxiety as signs that whatever you are doing something is going wrong because those are feelings that demonstrate you are not living in harmony with the great Tao. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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46:53

Plato's Symposium: Enter Alcibiades - Ep. 9

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/07/28

Enter Alcibiades - seemingly disrupting the entire structure of Plato’s dialogue, he actually works to underscore the power and truth of Socrates’ argument without ever actually engaging with the claims Socrates has made. We see and hear the quality of Socrates as a person rather than engage with the rationality of his thought. A masterclass in using misdirection and action to make arguments that would be impossible to support or articulate more directly. Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your

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1:03:23

The Transvaluation of All Values: Conclusion - Ep. 9

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/07/24

If you feel confused and uneasy in a seemingly directionless world you are not crazy. We are experiencing a rapid transformation in all of the elements that create a sense of meaning and belonging and we both need, and perhaps, must create a new set of values if we are to regain a sense of peace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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39:20

Plato's Symposium: The Speech of Diotima - Ep. 8

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/07/21

Wow, after all the build up, Socrates - through the voice of Diotima - delivers a truly radical conception of the nature of love. That it might lead us to personal divinity is perhaps the single most powerful in this section of the dialogue.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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20:49

Techno Feudalism: A Follow Up - Ep, 7

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/07/18

Thanks for the questions and comments. A quick follow up to techno feudalism exploring some of the ideas in a little more depth and clarity - at least hopefully.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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53:43

The Transvaluation of All Values: Weight, Weigher and...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/07/16

When our social narratives fail us, we are thrown back onto the values we create and defend. We can, and should, be the final arbiter of our world.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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44:29

Plato's Symposium: Agathon and Socrates - Ep. 7

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/07/14

The final set-up for Socrates’ speech establishes both the importance of one who knows above generally accepted wisdom as well as the complete dismissal of the mythological concepts as presented so far. Plato has Socrates present a stunning refutation of the whole idea that what everyone has said so far can actually be true as a way of beginning his presentation of THE TRUTH.Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, bonus

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40:32

Techno Feudalism

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/07/11

Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze, Foucault, Baudrillard all discussed major aspects of what is today often called Techno-Feudalism. While some of the modern conceptions are certainly apt and insightful, they often overlook the fundamental trick being played on us of extracting value from us while pretending to provide value for us. Further, this is not post-industrial but rather industrialism gone wild in its consumption of capital, mining, manufacturing, building, energy and human capacity

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57:13

The Transvaluation of All Values: West Africa 2 - Ep. 7

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/07/09

A further exploration of the ways in which a willingness to open ourselves to the cultural influence of West Africa could potentially really help transform our lives for the better.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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40:10

Plato's Symposium: The Speech of Aristophanes - Ep. 6

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/07/07

While these speeches seem very different - and they are on the surface - they actually articulate a similar outlook expressed in very different terms. The idea of love driving us towards a unity with a universal force is key to understanding Plato’s ideas of Love and why and how he has been so influential.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

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49:33

The Transvaluation of All Values: Can West Africa...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/07/02

If you feel your current values are failing then one needs to search for new values. One readily available set of values is provided by the influence of West Africa that still exists in the United States.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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46:06

Plato's Symposium: The Speech of Pausanias - Ep. 5

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/06/30

So much for Phaedrus. Plato quickly moves to present core elements of his world view while undercutting the simple love for the gods. Again, everything is political, philosophical and very critical of his society all at the same time. Notice all of the now common concepts that Plato is sneaking in under the guise of a simple set of hymns to praise the gods. What could be wrong with that??Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading

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57:05

The Transvaluation of All Values: Joy not Fear - Ep. 5

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/06/26

Shockingly, people are immersed in a series of internal narratives that impose a sense of threat and fear as a core element of existence. Embracing Joy, like Play, fundamentally alters our experience of the world and more accurately reflects the world we find ourselves inhabiting.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

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