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The Living Wisely podcast provides a framework and practical guidance for developing wisdom, focusing on personal responsibility, clear thinking, and understanding the world’s realities. This podcast encourages listeners to explore what is, envision what can be, choose what ought to be, and take action to create a better world. It integrates numerous resources, including books, essays, and external courses, and proposes a roadmap for personal and social growth. The podcast also incorporates ...
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This podcast episode, "Recognizing Emotions," offers a detailed exploration of various perspectives on human emotions. It presents lists of emotions categorized by different prominent researchers, including Paul Ekman's seven basic emotions, fifteen from Passion and Reason, and twenty-two from The Cognitive Structure of Emotions. The document aims …
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This podcast episode, "Dignity," explores the concept of inherent human worth and its connection to human rights. It asserts that everyone is born with dignity, which establishes fundamental entitlements. The text highlights how preserving human rights is crucial for maintaining dignity and maximizing well-being, while their infringement leads to s…
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This podcast episode offers a structured pathway for understanding and developing emotional competency, which is defined as the ability to recognize, interpret, and constructively respond to emotions in oneself and others. The material covers a range of topics, starting with basic emotions like fear and anger, and progressing to concepts such as ju…
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This podcast episode introduces the concept of emotional competency, defining it as the ability to recognize, interpret, and constructively respond to emotions in oneself and others. It asserts that understanding emotions is crucial for navigating life effectively and suggests that many people have learned to suppress or mismanage their feelings. T…
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This podcast episode, titled "Global Perspective," outlines a course designed to encourage a broader understanding of the world's interconnected challenges. It argues that many problems persist due to narrow viewpoints and advocates for adopting a global lens to identify effective solutions. The resource explores concepts such as interdependence, e…
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This podcast episode, "The Reformation Workshop" presents a call to action for intentional personal and societal transformation. It argues that facing a complex and changing world requires a commitment to reflection, truth-seeking, and evolving beliefs. The author outlines a journey encompassing governance, economics, and confronting global challen…
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This podcast episode, "Beyond Theism," serves as an invitation and guidance for individuals questioning theistic beliefs. It offers a structured exploration of the assumptions underlying theism and presents alternative perspectives grounded in reason and evidence. The course covers topics such as origin stories, morality, the concept of a soul, the…
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This podcast episode outlines a course on Natural Inclusion, a perspective pioneered by Alan Rayner. It challenges conventional thinking by asserting that all natural forms are dynamic configurations of energy within space, moving away from rigid definitions and boundaries. The course explores how understanding this "flow-form" concept can be appli…
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This podcast episode, "Finding Common Ground," explores the multifaceted nature of reality and how individuals can establish shared understanding despite differing perceptions and interpretations. It highlights the limitations of human perception, the ambiguities of language, and the influence of personal biases and ideologies on our understanding …
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This podcast episode examines how societies create shared understandings and rules. It differentiates between brute facts, which exist independently of human perception, and social constructs, which are built upon collective agreement. These constructs, like language, money, and governments, shape our reality. The resource explores how ambiguity an…
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This podcast episode explores Street Epistemology (SE), a conversational technique for examining the reliability of beliefs. It outlines the principles, preparation, execution, and evaluation of SE dialogues. SE uses Socratic methods to encourage individuals to reflect on the reasons behind their convictions, without aiming to change specific belie…
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This podcast episode details the Socratic Method, a teaching technique using questions to guide learners to discover truths independently. It outlines the method's stages, from initial wonder and hypothesis formation to the elenchus (a critical dialogue to refine the hypothesis), and finally, acting on new understanding. The podcast emphasizes the …
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This podcast episode defines intellectual honesty as truthful communication, emphasizing the importance of accurate fact-finding and unbiased presentation. It explores the moral duty to be honest, especially when influencing others, and details how intellectual dishonesty harms individuals and society. The associated text provides exercises and ass…
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This podcast episode, "Knowing How You Know," guides students in developing a personal theory of knowledge. It explores how individuals form beliefs, distinguishes reliable information from misinformation, and emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and evidence-based reasoning. The episode uses assignments and readings to help students exam…
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This podcast episode outlines the principles of scientific thinking. It emphasizes the importance of wonder, empirical evidence, and embracing reality, while highlighting the need for openness, collaboration, and intellectual honesty. The episode stresses the evolution of understanding through falsification and the value of reproducibility and obje…
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This podcast episode is a course on recognizing logical fallacies. It defines fallacies as errors in reasoning that can seem correct but are ultimately flawed. The course categorizes fallacies into types—relevance, presumption, ambiguity, and formal fallacies—and provides examples. It aims to improve critical thinking skills by enabling students to…
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This podcast episode introduces deductive logic, explaining its purpose in evaluating the consistency of statements and deriving true conclusions. It outlines learning objectives, covering key concepts like truth functions, arguments, and inference rules. The resource also emphasizes Aristotle's Law of Non-Contradiction as a foundational principle.…
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This podcast episode, "Exploring Worldviews," guides listners to examine their own deeply held beliefs and assumptions about the world. It encourages critical analysis of these beliefs by presenting contrasting viewpoints and prompting reflection on various aspects of human nature, knowledge, morality, and relationships. The course uses a structure…
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This podcast episode on Seeking True Beliefs, explores virtue epistemology, examining how intellectual virtues like curiosity and humility, coupled with skills in critical thinking and evidence evaluation, guide us towards true beliefs. It argues that acquiring true beliefs is a matter of both will and skill, urging personal responsibility for the …
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This Podcast episode, "Evaluating Evidence," teaches critical thinking skills for assessing the reliability of information. It outlines various forms of evidence, establishes criteria for evaluating their quality (relevance, authenticity, objectivity, scope, etc.), and explores common pitfalls like confirmation bias and logical fallacies. The cours…
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This podcast episode, "Facing Facts," aims to improve critical thinking skills by teaching students to distinguish between facts, opinions, beliefs, and feelings. It explores various ways of knowing (epistemologies), emphasizing the importance of reliable methods like the scientific method and the dangers of unreliable ones like faith. The course s…
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This podcast episode outlines Stoic philosophy, tracing its history from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius. It details core Stoic principles, including virtue ethics, the dichotomy of control, and the importance of reason and cosmopolitanism. The page offers practical applications of Stoicism for modern life, drawing connections to cognitive behavioral thera…
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This podcast explores the importance of sleep and the detrimental effects of sleep deprivation. It argues that adequate sleep is crucial for learning, memory formation, cognitive function, and overall well-being, and it highlights the link between insufficient sleep and chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and depress…
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The podcast audio is created from the “What Matters” page on Wikiversity, which is an online learning platform hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The podcast outlines a course designed to help individuals identify and prioritize what truly matters in their lives, exploring topics ranging from basic survival needs to achieving a sense of purpose an…
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This podcast episode is a guide to clarifying personal values. It outlines how values influence decision-making and explores different frameworks for understanding and identifying values, including those of Rush Kidder, Christopher Peterson and Katherine Dahlsgaard, Shalom H. Schwartz, and the Dalai Lama. The guide also highlights common values hel…
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This podcast on Practicing Dialogue outlines the key features and benefits of engaging in dialogue as a method of communication. It defines dialogue as a distinct form of conversation, contrasting it with other modes such as debate or discussion, and emphasizes the importance of genuine listening, respect, and the balance of inquiry and advocacy in…
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This podcast summarizes a self-guided course designed to help individuals identify and understand their "true self". The course encourages participants to examine the stories they tell themselves about who they are, recognizing that these narratives might be based on limiting beliefs. Through a series of exercises and meditations, participants are …
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This podcast discusses the importance of trust in relationships, outlining its various benefits and the different levels at which it can exist. It also explores the factors that contribute to building trust, such as intent, ability, and trustworthy behavior, as well as the costs of mistrust. The audio was generated by the NotebookLM artificial inte…
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The podcast is a guide to social skills, presenting them as the foundation for successful communication and positive relationships. The audio in these podcast episodes is generated by NotebookLM, an artificial intelligence service, from text at: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Social_SkillsBy lelandbeaumont
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This podcast explores the concept of virtues, traits that are considered intrinsically valuable. It starts by defining virtue as excellence, in being human. The audio was generated by NotebookLM, an AI program, based on the text at: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/VirtuesBy lelandbeaumont
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The Living Wisely podcast provides a framework and practical guidance for developing wisdom, focusing on personal responsibility, clear thinking, and understanding the world's realities. This audio was generated by NotebookLM from the source materials at: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Living_Wisely…
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