What's the point of this podcast? They're just bitching

>>2479860
What episode?

>>2479860

Of course the deepest comprehension of texts will elude anyone who only spends a (relatively) little amount of time with it. Or at least, maybe this is true for most of us with more common types of minds, who need to give as payment portions of our lives by hours before we can begin to understand this or that text.

But they're upfront with it, I mean, the name of the podcast is the "partially" examined life. They begin every episode by basically stating this, but that they were a group of lads who originally wanted to devote their lives to philosophy, but then thought better of it. Thought better of it. They've managed to live the dream as far as I'm concerned, and keep philosophical dialogue and conversation of the sort that you typically only find in universities or in the biggest of cities in their lives. And this in a manner that improves other areas of their lives (it makes em perhaps a little money, raises their social standing, etc.)

And they all seem like a perfectly fun bunch of guys. If I were you, I would ignore the temptation to skip around and just start from the beginning. Maybe you don't desire to study philosophy in such a pell mell manner, but as for understanding them, and seeing them actually grow (or not) in their ideas, the best way remains chronological. That is, you can't help but fall for them after episode 1, where they're wrestling with the ageold, "is there any point to studying philosophy?"

It's good stuff