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Basic Info

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Original Air Date

Dec 15, 1978 → Apr 06, 1979

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Series Overview

• INTRODUCTION: What is philosophy?
• PART ONE: PLATO
• PART TWO: DESCARTES
• PART THREE: HUME
• PART FOUR: HEGEL
• PART FIVE: MARX
• PART SIX: SARTRE
• PART SEVEN: IN SEARCH: THE CONTEMPORARY SCENE IN PHILOSOPHY </aside>

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Past Episodes

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PART ZERO: INTRODUCTION

• E01. FSTS EP01 ⟩ INTRODUCTION: THE INDESTRUCTIBLE QUESTIONS </aside>

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PART ONE: PLATO

• E02. FSTS EP02 ⟩ Plato I – VIRTUE IS KNOWLEDGE
• E03. FSTS EP03 ⟩ Plato II – SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE
• E04. FSTS EP04 ⟩ Plato III – THE DIVIDED LINE (Opinion vs Knowledge)
• E05. FSTS EP05 ⟩ Plato IV – THE TRIPARTITE SOUL (The Three Part Man)
• E06. FSTS EP06 ⟩ Plato V – THE IDEAL STATE </aside>

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PART TWO: DESCARTES

• E07. FSTS EP07 ⟩ Descartes I: Historical Transition to the Modern World (The Modern World Begins)
• E08. FSTS EP08 ⟩ Descartes II: Doubting to Believe
• E09. FSTS EP09 ⟩ Descartes III: God Exists
• E10. FSTS EP10 ⟩ Descartes IV: The Clockwork Universe
• E11. FSTS EP11 ⟩ Descartes V: Body and Soul </aside>

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PART THREE: HUME

• E12. FSTS EP12 ⟩ Hume I: How Do You Know?
• E13. FSTS EP13 ⟩ Hume II: “A Well-Meanin’ Critter”
• E14. FSTS EP14 ⟩ Hume III: Will the Sun Rise Tomorrow?
• E15. FSTS EP15 ⟩ Hume IV: Reason: “Slave of the Passions” </aside>

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PART FOUR: HEGEL

• E16. FSTS EP16 ⟩ Hegel I: A Revolution in Thought
• E17. FSTS EP17 ⟩ Hegel II: The Real Is the Rational
• E18. FSTS EP18 ⟩ Hegel III: Master and Slave
• E19. FSTS EP19 ⟩ Hegel IV: The Cunning of Reason
• E20. FSTS EP20 ⟩ Hegel V: The Owl of Minerva </aside>

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PART FIVE: MARX

• E21. FSTS EP21 ⟩ Marx I: The Young Hegelian
• E22. FSTS EP22 ⟩ Marx II: Alienated Man
• E23. FSTS EP23 ⟩ Marx III: The Conflict of Classes
• E24. FSTS EP24 ⟩ Marx IV: The World to Come </aside>

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Marx IV — The World to Come

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Marx IV: The World to Come

24 – THE WORLD TO COME

Analysis of Communist Manifesto: History of class struggles; the proletariat, the last enslaved class remaining to be freed. Achievements of the capitalist mode of production; but capitalism is unable to control the forces it has unleashed. The call to revolution. Why ght for an inevitable revolution? Status of the Manifesto: objective truth or propaganda? Science or philosophy? Theses on Feuerbach. Analysis of Capital. The “scientific” explanation of world history. The labor theory of value, surplus value, theory of exploitation, the polarization of classes. Capitalist competition, overproduction, crises, revolution Marx’s theory of the state. After the revolution, the classless society, the communist world to come. First stage: the dictatorship of the proletariat. Second stage: the last state “withers away.” Fully developed communism: liberation from the division of labor Theory of species Man. Marx’s apocalypticism. Marx’s predictions. Marx’s contributions to the intellectual culture have transformed it.

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• From Socrates to Sartre EP24 ⟩ “Marx IV: The World to Come”, Thu, Sep 4, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup </aside>

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• Transcript: EP24 – Marx IV: The World to Come
• Chatlog </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/new-alert_purple.svg" alt="/icons/new-alert_purple.svg" width="40px" /> BONUS MATERIALS

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