Category Archives: Western Philosophy
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WESTERN PHILOSOPHY: “Arthur Schopenhauer: On Love” / Alain de Botton ☮
INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENT – ROMANTICISM: “Hopeless Enslavement” / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ☮
CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY: “Pre-Socratic Philosophy” / Heraclitus ☮
WESTERN PHILOSOPHY – STOICISM: “If There are Gods” / Marcus Aurelius ☮
WESTERN PHILOSOPHY – EXISTENTIALISM: “Why you Should be Watching Fargo Already” / Albert Camus ☮
Every episode of Fargo to date has been titled after a piece of literature, and characters have quoted everyone from Lewis Carroll to Albert Camus. The literary choices never seem random, thematically commenting on the action of the show. Episode three is named after Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus and feels like a major inspiration for the entire season, given Noreen’s extended philosophical discussion of it with Ed and Charlie in episode five (and Ed’s subsequent misinterpretation of it in episode six). How many TV shows in 2015 can introduce you to the works of Kafka, Camus, and Ionesco?
h/t: Vulture
EDUCATION: “An Uneducated Child” / George Santayana ☮
CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY: “Athens, Greece: Ancient Acropolis and Agora” / Rick Steves ☮
WESTERN PHILOSOPHY: “What is Free Will?” / John Searle ☮
WESTERN PHILOSOPHY: “Baruch Spinoza” / The School of Life ☮



