9. Discover Your Superpowers! Training Montages and Virtue Ethics

A key element in ethics, we discover how important are habits, especially if you want to build something extraordinary…

8. The Ethics of Mr. spock

Continuing with our “ethics tutorial”, we look at a figure that exemplifies a variety of ethical theories. What better way to get introduced to them than by the hand of Mr. Spock?

7. An Interview with Randy Richards, author of “The Unseen Hand of Peter Gyges”

Randy Richards’ 2015 novel, “The Unseen Hand of Peter Gyges,” is a modern retelling of Plato’s famous fable, which we discussed in Episode 6. Peter Gyges, the new owner of a ring of invisibility, finds it a fantastic tool to work his way up the corporate ladder. But is he living a good life? This interview uncovers many of the subtleties of Plato’s thought, and brings Aristotle in to bear on the discussion. Warning: Spoilers!

6. Plato and the First Ring of Power

What would you do if you could become invisible? Would you still play by the rules? Are we good only because others can see us? With the story of Gyges and his magical ring, Plato introduces one of the fundamental questions of ethics.
This is the beginning episode in the “Ethics Tutorial” miniseries.

5. Book Burning in the 21st Century: Ray Bradbury and Cancel Culture

We couldn’t leave Fahrenheit without touching on some, sadly, burning topics of present times — censorship, cancel culture and, yes, book burning. Is it true that extremes touch?

4. Distracted to Death: The World of Fahrenheit 451

Continuing with our look at Bradbury’s masterpiece, we discover the dangers of getting constantly distracted by today’s near infinite entertainment options.

3. A World Turned Upside Down: Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”

Trying to get at the heart of Ray Bradbury’s most celebrated novel, Alfredo finds it may have to do with the eternal battle of nihilism against wonder, and somehow ties this with Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning”

2. Can You escape the Cave? Plato and the first dystopian story

Who wrote the first dystopian short story? Plato, of course!

1. Captain Pike and the Evil Genius: Can Pike Escape the Cage?

In our beginning episode we revisit the first episode of Star Trek, and find that Captain Pike’s struggle with the big-brained Talosians is very much like the struggle of 17th century philosopher René Descartes.