Hi everyone, I put my sources in the show notes of each episode, but I thought people might want a place to see all the sources in one glance. Here you go!
Episode 1: Sisyphus meets the Dark Knight and
Episode 2: Two Sons of the Same Earth, Dark Knight part 2
Camus Albert, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
_____. Nuptials. (1938)
Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History, (1940)
Episode 3: An instinct of the Heart
Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (1843),
—–, Either/Or, (1843)
—–, Sickness unto Death (1849)
Episode 4: The Imaizumi Code
no central text, just some general existentialism, including bits and pieces from:
Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943)
Camus, various works.
Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation (1859)
Heidegger, Being and Time (1927)
I mention that we can describe Existentialism as a philosophy of “No Excuses” this is also the title of a series of lectures given by the late Dr. Robert Solomon available on The Great Courses.com about Existentialism. I’m not sponsored by that company, but I do recommend this course, it’s a fantastic survey of important Existentialist ideas and readings.
Episode 5: Femme Fatal and the Will to Power
F. Nietzsche, (1886) Beyond Good and Evil
F. Nietzsche, (1882) The Gay Science
F. Nietzsche, (1883-5) Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Arthur Schopenhauer, (1819) World as Will and Representation
Bernard Reginster, (2006) The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism
Episode 6: Inexplicable Motorcycle
Bergson, Matter and Memory, 1896 (I’m using the 1910 translation by Paul and Palmer).
Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1943 (Barnes translation).
Episode 7: Maple Leaf Justice
Sartre, Being and Nothingness.
Nietzsche, The Gay Science.
Heidegger, Being and Time.
Charles Guignon, ed. The Existentialists. (Especially the chapters within by Guignon, Nehams, and Solomon).
Dale Cannon, “An Existential Theory of Truth,” The Personalist. Vol. 12. No. 2 (Fall 1996): 135-146.
Episode 8: China is Here, Detective Knight!
Nivison, David. (1973). Moral Decision in Wang Yang-ming: The Problem of Chinese “Existentialism”. Philosophy East and West,23(1/2), 121-137. doi:10.2307/1398068
Wang, Yang-ming. (1963). Instructions for practical living, and other Neo-Confucian writings. Retrieved from https://hdl-handle-net.kean.idm.oclc.org/2027/heb.06056.
Laozi, Zhuangzi, Confucius, & Mencius. (2013). The four chinese classics : tao te ching, chuang tzu, analects, mencius. (D. Hinton, Trans.).
Wang, Qinjie James. “It-self-so-ing” and “other-ing” in Laozi’s concept of Ziran. 2003. (http://www.confuchina.com/05%20zongjiao/Lao%20Zi’s%20Concept%20of%20Zi%20Ran.htm)
O’Flynn, Pauline. “A Question of Vengeance” Philosophy Now. Issue 69. 2008.
Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity,” 1947.
Ho, David Y. F., “Selfhood and Identity in Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism: Contrasts with the West,” Journal for the Theory of Social behavior. 25:2. 1995.
Episode 9: No Good Deed
Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 1947.
Beauvoir, Pyrrhus and Cineas, 1944.
Sartre, “Existentialism is a Humanism,” 1946.
Episode 10: Moody Lounging
Sartre, Being and Nothingness.
De Beauvior, The Ethics of Ambiguity.
Camus, The Rebel. And, The Myth of Sisyphus.
Episode 11: Donut Donny: Man of Action
Sartre, Existentalism is a Humanism.
John Messerly, Summary of Sartre’s Theory of Human Nature, (2014) reasonandmeaning.com
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