
Philosophize This!
Stephen West
Alasdair MacIntyre, Shakespeare, and other thinkers' ideas examined through detailed, episode-long analyses.
Why we picked this
We picked Philosophize This! because it treats philosophy as a practical inheritance, not a parlor game. The host builds each arc around how ideas move through institutions and shape daily action—how a university’s structure encodes moral assumptions, how a biologist’s blind spots carry philosophical weight. The show moves chronologically, so later episodes assume earlier ones. That trade-off pays off: subscribing means receiving a connected argument about the Western tradition, not a scatter of standalone summaries.
Recent episodes

Episode #248 ... What philosophers say about lying.
May 31, 202636 min

Episode #247 ... The Failure of the Modern University - Alasdair MacIntyre
May 10, 202628 min

Episode #246 ... The Myth of the Self-Made Person - Alasdair Macintyre
Apr 26, 202632 min

Episode #245 ... The Rival Moral Approaches of the Modern World - Alasdair Macintyre
Apr 12, 202632 min

Episode #244 ... After Virtue - Alasdair MacIntyre (why moral conversations feel unsatisfying)
Feb 11, 202636 min

Episode #243 ... Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Dec 27, 202530 min

Episode #242 ... Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Nov 29, 202531 min

Episode #241 ... The Tragedy of Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
Nov 16, 202529 min

Episode #240 ... Varieties of Religion Today (Charles Taylor)
Nov 8, 202529 min

Episode #239 ... Authenticity and the history of the self. (Charles Taylor)
Oct 17, 202534 min

Episode #238 ... Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Oct 8, 202529 min

Episode #237 ... The Stoics Are Wrong - Nietzsche, Schopenhauer
Sep 30, 202528 min
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