May Moppets

This month we're featuring episodes from the archives in which John and Ken focus on big thinkers born in May: Niccolò Machiavelli (May 3, 1469), Søren Kierkeegaard (May 5, 1813), David Hume (May 7, 1711), and John Stuart Mill (May 20, 1806). May also marks the anniversary of Karl Marx (May 5, 1818), who was the subject of a recent episode in which Josh and Ray with Vanessa Wills from Georgetown University, author of Marx's Ethical Vision.

 

May Moppets

Episode Title Guest Related Content

Machiavelli

Maurizio Viroli, Professor Emeritus of Politics, Princeton University Machiavelli

Marx and Morality

Vanessa Wills, Professor of Philosophy, George Washington University

Kierkegaard

Lanier Anderson, Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University Kierkegaard

Hume

Don Garrett, Professor of Philosophy, New York University Immortality: Hume and Boswell

J.S. Mill and the Good Life

David Brink, Professor of Philosophy, UC San Diego JS Mill and the Good Life