The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

PEL Closereads: Emerson's Oversoul (New Podcast Premiere)

Are we underlyingly all really a single, unified organism? Or do we just have a lot in common? PEL's most verbose hosts Mark Linsenmayer and Wes Alwan begin unraveling this puzzling claim by reading Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1841 essay "The Over-Soul" and explaining it line-by-line. <a href="https://youtu.be/QwylkSdmMt0" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Watch this episode on video at YouTube</a>. We encourage you to <a href="https://emersoncentral.com/texts/essays-first-series/the-over-soul/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">read along in the essay with us</a>. This is the first of four parts. To hear the others as they are released this week, plus weekly episodes going forward and three episodes already posted, please support this new effort at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="">patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy</a> (or support PEL and Closereads together via support at the $10 level at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/partiallyexaminedlife" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="">patreon.com/partiallyexaminedlife</a>). Sponsor: Check out <a href="https://www.desmog.com/drilled-climate-podcast-episodes/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="">Drilled</a>, a true-crime podcast about climate change. Enrollment is now open for Mark's Core Philosophy Texts class at <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/class">partiallyexaminedlife.com/class</a>. <a href="partiallyexaminedlife.com/support" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Support PEL</a> to get this discussion ad-free, plus tons of bonus content.

The Partially Examined Life is a podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode, we pick a short text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy. You don't have to know any philosophy, or even to have read the text we're talking about to (mostly) follow and (hopefully) enjoy the discussion. For links to the texts we discuss and other info, check out www.partiallyexaminedlife.com.

We also feature episodes from other podcasts by our hosts to round out your partially examined life, including Pretty Much Pop (prettymuchpop.com, covering all media), Nakedly Examined Music (nakedlyexaminedmusic.com, deconstructing songs), Philosophy vs. Improv (philosophyimprov.com, fun with performance skills and philosophical ideas), and (sub)Text (subtextpodcast.com, looking deeply at lit and film). Learn about more network podcasts at partiallyexaminedlife.com.