The Nordic Way

The Nordic Way

In this conversation with Xenia Klerk [https://www.linkedin.com/in/xenia-klerk-kurpatow-34aa97150/], the discussion begins with Scandinavian education but gradually opens into a wider conversation about childhood, social care, critical thinking, and the systems that shape human beings from an early age. The dialogue explores how schools and families can either protect curiosity or slowly turn children into standardized versions of one another. As the conversation develops, the focus shifts toward the Nordic model, welfare, equality, social trust, and the fragility of systems that are often imagined from the outside as utopian. Rather than presenting Scandinavia as a perfect model, the conversation reflects on both its achievements and its tensions, including individualism, racism, social segregation, and the difficulty of preserving care inside modern societies. The discussion eventually moves toward self-development, spiritual searching, Afghanistan, imperialism, freedom, and the language of progress. Through personal experience and political reflection, the conversation asks why people and societies search for salvation, why external models often fail when imposed on other cultures, and how ordinary lives continue under the pressure of power, fear, history, and empire. Books mentioned in this episode: * The Gardener and the Carpenter [https://books.google.pt/books/about/The_Gardener_and_the_Carpenter.html?id=SPXlDAAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y] * Nothing About Us Without Us [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_about_us_without_us] * The Gay Science [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gay_Science] * Mutual Aid [https://books.google.pt/books/about/Mutual_Aid.html?id=e7B1EQAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y] Essays mentioned in this episode: * Politics and the English Language [https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/] Episodes related to the two-volume Neurophilosophy [https://delshad.me/en/podcasts/zharfa/two-volume-neurophilosophy/]: * Responsibility at the institutional level [https://delshad.me/fa/%da%98%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%a7/%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%82%d8%b9%db%8c%d8%aa-%d8%b0%d9%87%d9%86%db%8c/%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%82%d8%b9%db%8c%d8%aa-%d8%b0%d9%87%d9%86%db%8c-%d9%82%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%84/%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%a6%d9%88%d9%84%db%8c%d8%aa-%d9%be%d8%b0%db%8c%d8%b1%db%8c-%d8%ba%db%8c%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%af%db%8c/] * The myth of happiness [https://delshad.me/fa/%da%98%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%a7/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c-%d9%82%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%84/%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%b7%d9%88%d8%b1%d9%87-%db%8c-%d8%ae%d9%88%d8%b4%d8%a8%d8%ae%d8%aa%db%8c/] * Apex And Abyss [https://delshad.me/fa/%da%98%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%a7/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c-%d9%82%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%aa-%d8%b3%d9%88%d9%85/%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%b4-%d9%88-%d9%81%d8%b1%d8%b4/] * Dignified revolt [https://delshad.me/fa/%da%98%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%a7/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c-%d9%82%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%aa-%d8%af%d9%88%d9%85/%d8%b4%d9%88%d8%b1%d8%b4-%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%82%d8%a7%d8%b1/] Figures mentioned in this episode: * Olof Palme [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Palme] * Friedrich Nietzsche [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche] * George Orwell [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell] * Hannah Arendt [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt] * Peter Kropotkin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin] Key terms in this episode: * Nordic model [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model] * Welfare state [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state] * Jante Law [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante] * Critical thinking [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking] * Individualism [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualism] * Global majority [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_majority] * Nation-building [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation-building] Poems from Friedrich Nietzsche: English — Section 173: “Those Who Make Themselves Appear Deep” Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be deep: it is so timid and dislikes going into the water. ⸻ Deutsch — §173: “Von den Denkern, welche sich tief scheinen machen” Wer weiss, dass er tief ist, strebt nach Klarheit; wer vor dem Pöbel gelten will, strebt nach Dunkelheit. Denn das Pöbel hält alles für tief, wovon es den Grund nicht sehen kann: es ist so scheu und geht nicht gern ins Wasser. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wisdorise.com [https://www.wisdorise.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

A Journey Into Persian Culture

In this conversation with Henry [https://www.youtube.com/@HGTArchitects], the discussion begins with his encounter with Iran and Persian culture. He reflects on travel, hospitality, food, architecture, language, and the way a culture can become personal through ordinary human connection. The conversation then moves into Persian poetry and the experience of hearing a poem in its original language. Henry talks about learning Farsi, the sound of Persian, and the difference between reading a translation and feeling the rhythm, voice, and emotional weight of the original poem. This becomes a wider reflection on Persian culture as something living; not only preserved in monuments, books, or historical memory, but also carried through language, food, poetry, landscapes, rituals, and the people who share them. The second half of the conversation moves through travel, desert silence, architecture, Sufism, Arabic, and the deeper curiosity that comes from entering unfamiliar cultures with attention rather than simply passing through them. Figures mentioned in this episode: * Saadi [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadi_Shirazi] * Hafez [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafez] * Rumi [https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalaladim_Maom%C3%A9_Rumi] * Omar Khayyam [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khayyam] * Ferdowsi [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdowsi] * Khalil Gibran [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahlil_Gibran] * Coleman Barks [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Barks] * André Gide [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gide] Key terms in this episode: * Farsi / Persian [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language] * Sufism [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufism] Poems read in this episode: من چرا دل به تو دادم که دلم می‌شکنی یا چه کردم که نگه باز به من می‌نکنی دل و جانم به تو مشغول و نظر در چپ و راست تا ندانند حریفان که تو منظور منی دیگران چون بروند از نظر از دل بروند تو چنان در دل من رفته که جان در بدنی Why did I give my heart to you, when you are the one who breaks it? What have I done, that you no longer turn your gaze toward me? My heart and soul are wholly taken by you, yet my eyes wander left and right, so that my rivals may never know that you are the one I seek. Others, when they leave the eye, leave the heart as well; but you have entered my heart as the soul enters the body. Saadi [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadi_Shirazi] از آمدنم نبود گردون را سود وز رفتن من جلال و جاهش نفزود وز هیچ کسی نیز دو گوشم نشنود کاین آمدن و رفتنم از بهر چه بود My coming brought no gain to the turning heavens; my going added nothing to their glory or command. And from no one have my two ears ever heard what this coming and going of mine was meant to be. Omar Khayyam [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khayyam] Locations mentioned in this episode: * Ferdowsi Square [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdowsi_Square] * Tajrish [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajrish] * Shemroon / Shemiran [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shemiran] * Tochal [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tochal] * Caspian Sea [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea] * Shiraz [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiraz] * Hafez Tomb [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Hafez] * Pink Mosque / Nasir al-Mulk Mosque [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir-ol-Molk_Mosque] * Yazd [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazd] * Isfahan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isfahan] * Naqsh-e Jahan Square [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naqsh-e_Jahan_Square] * Kashan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashan] * Varzaneh Desert [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varzaneh] * Nushabad Underground City [https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/nushabad-underground-city] * Tabriz [https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabriz] * Blue Mosque of Tabriz [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mosque,_Tabriz] * Kandovan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandovan,_Osku] * Gilan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilan_province] * Rasht [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasht] * Persepolis [https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pers%C3%A9polis] * Antalya [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antalya] * Konya [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konya] * Rumi’s Tomb/Mevlâna Museum [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mevl%C3%A2na_Museum] * Cappadocia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappadocia] * Göbekli Tepe [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe] * Çatalhöyük [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87atalh%C3%B6y%C3%BCk] * Hagia Sophia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia] * Blue Mosque of Istanbul [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mosque,_Istanbul] * Jakarta [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta] * Bali [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bali] * Ubud [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubud] * East Java [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Java] * Beirut [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beirut] * Maronite Church [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maronite_Church] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wisdorise.com [https://www.wisdorise.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

The Voice Beneath the Noise

In this conversation with Lidia Lins [https://www.lidialins.com/], the discussion begins with movement between places, cultures, and identities. The conversation then moves into Lidia’s unusual path from deep sea biology to music. She reflects on her years as a scientist studying life in extreme ocean environments, and on the parallel presence of music in her life since childhood. This becomes a wider discussion about art, the body, the voice, and the tension between making a living and making something humanly meaningful. The episode explores the economic fragility of artistic work, the traps of visibility, the limits of platforms such as Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/artist/5SkSyoxByWevXqJNW6FRJP] and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF2bRtOrZG7qar59bResSDQ], and the need to rethink support for artists not as donation, but as a form of payment, care, and cultural responsibility. The second half of the conversation moves through voice activation, AI, plant medicine, healing culture, and the search for something more grounded than performance. Lidia explains how voice can become a doorway into the body, memory, fear, and self-expression. The dialogue also questions modern promises of healing, redemption, and salvation, whether they appear in religion, spirituality, self-development, or psychedelic culture. Related Links: * The Blue Planet [https://www.bbcearth.com/shows/blue-planet] * Boom Festival [https://www.boomfestival.org/] * Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/home] * Ko-fi [https://ko-fi.com/] * Substack [https://substack.com/] Key terms in this episode: * Voice activation: A body-based practice in which the voice is used as a way to explore tension, fear, expression, memory, and self-alignment. * Healing culture: A modern field of practices, workshops, ceremonies, and narratives that often promise transformation, relief, or self-discovery, but can also become a form of escape or commercialization. * Plant medicine: A term often used for psychoactive substances used in ritual, therapeutic, or spiritual contexts, especially in relation to ceremonies connected to Indigenous or neo-spiritual practices. * Embodiment: The idea that experience, emotion, memory, and self-expression are not only mental but also deeply rooted in the body. * Coping mechanisms: Coping mechanisms are the conscious and unconscious thoughts or behaviors you use to manage stress, anxiety, and difficult emotions. They fall into two main categories: adaptive strategies (which promote well-being) and maladaptive strategies (which can provide temporary relief but cause long-term harm). * Ready-to-hand and present-at-hand: Heidegger’s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger]distinction between things we use without noticing and things that become visible to us when they break, disappear, or stop functioning smoothly. * Following mode: In Martin Heidegger’s philosophy, a “following mode” relates to how humans interact with the world. It typically describes either the passive, thoughtless following of societal norms, or the active following (repetition) of history and possibilities that make authentic living possible. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wisdorise.com [https://www.wisdorise.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

From Psychopathy to Fascism

In this conversation with Daniel Lee [https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-lee-62887ba6/], the discussion begins with psychopathy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy] but gradually opens into a wider conversation about morality, empathy, and the fragility of human behavior. The dialogue explores how people can lose sensitivity toward others and how fear, trauma, and social pressure can slowly reshape the way humans think and act. As the conversation develops, the focus shifts toward tribalism, ideology, and the creation of enemies inside collective systems. Rather than reducing cruelty to simple evil, both perspectives examine how violence can become normalized and even morally justified within political, cultural, and historical structures. The discussion eventually moves toward fascism [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism], charismatic leadership, punishment, rehabilitation, recidivism [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recidivism], and institutional responsibility. Through both historical and contemporary examples, the conversation reflects on why dangerous personalities continue to rise to power and why societies repeatedly follow them. Books mentioned in this episode: * The Wisdom of Psychopaths [https://books.google.pt/books/about/The_Wisdom_of_Psychopaths.html?id=AzHrzEUDlhkC&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y] * Political Ponerology [https://books.google.pt/books/about/Political_Ponerology.html?id=OTeaGQAACAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y] * Without Conscience [https://books.google.pt/books/about/Without_Conscience.html?id=foxYAAAAYAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y]‌ * Determined [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determined:_A_Science_of_Life_Without_Free_Will] Documentaries mentioned in this episode: * Scandinavian Rehabilitation Prisons [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVEXRth-hJs] Episodes related to the two-volume Neurophilosophy [https://delshad.me/en/podcasts/zharfa/two-volume-neurophilosophy/]: * Morality Ladder [https://delshad.me/fa/%da%98%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%a7/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c-%d9%82%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%84/%d9%86%d8%b1%d8%af%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a7%d8%ae%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%82/] * Responsibility Without Freewill [https://delshad.me/fa/%da%98%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%a7/%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%82%d8%b9%db%8c%d8%aa-%d8%b0%d9%87%d9%86%db%8c/%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%82%d8%b9%db%8c%d8%aa-%d8%b0%d9%87%d9%86%db%8c-%d9%82%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%84/%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%a6%d9%88%d9%84%db%8c%d8%aa-%d9%be%d8%b0%db%8c%d8%b1%db%8c-%d8%ba%db%8c%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%af%db%8c/] * Responsibility at the institutional level [https://delshad.me/fa/%da%98%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%a7/%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%82%d8%b9%db%8c%d8%aa-%d8%b0%d9%87%d9%86%db%8c/%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%82%d8%b9%db%8c%d8%aa-%d8%b0%d9%87%d9%86%db%8c-%d9%82%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%84/%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%a6%d9%88%d9%84%db%8c%d8%aa-%d9%be%d8%b0%db%8c%d8%b1%db%8c-%d8%ba%db%8c%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%af%db%8c/] * On Why We Fight [https://delshad.me/fa/%da%98%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%a7/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c-%d9%82%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%aa-%d8%af%d9%88%d9%85/%da%86%d8%b1%d8%a7-%d9%85%db%8c-%d8%ac%d9%86%da%af%db%8c%d9%85/] * Metaphysical Fascism [https://delshad.me/fa/%da%98%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%a7/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c-%d9%82%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%aa-%d8%af%d9%88%d9%85/%d9%81%d8%a7%d8%b4%db%8c%d8%b3%d9%85-%d9%85%d8%aa%d8%a7%d9%81%db%8c%d8%b2%db%8c%da%a9%db%8c/] Figures mentioned in this episode: * Immanuel Kant [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant] * Martin Heidegger [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger] * Robert Sapolsky [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sapolsky] * Kevin Dutton [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Dutton] * baczewski [https://lubimyczytac.pl/autor/102013/andrzej-lobaczewski#:~:text=Pisze%20ksi%C4%85%C5%BCki%3A%20nauki%20spo%C5%82eczne%20(psychologia%2C%20socjologia%2C%20itd.)&text=Urodzi%C5%82%20si%C4%99%20w%201921%20roku,cz%C5%82onkiem%20podziemnej%20polskiej%20organizacji%20oporu.] * Anders Breivik [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik] Key terms in this episode: * Trolley problem [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem] * Dehumanization [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehumanization] * Authoritarianism [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism] * Pathocracy [https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patocracia] * 2026 Iran Massacres [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres] * Umma [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ummah] * Neurodiversity [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodiversity] * Critical Theory [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory] * Frankfurt School [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School] References: * Prison Policy Initiative. (2022). [https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2022/06/08/norway/]What we can learn from Norway’s prison system: Rehabilitation and recidivism [https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2022/06/08/norway/]. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2022/06/08/norway/ [https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2022/06/08/norway/] * Delshad Tehrani, A. (2026). [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19452651]Morality Ladder: A graded moral regulation model of moral agency under uncertainty [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19452651]. Zenodo.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19452651 [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19452651] * Delshad Tehrani, A. (2026). [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19480217]Responsibility without free will [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19480217]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19480217 [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19480217] Clarification: In several Wisdorise episodes, I have used the term “metaphysics [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics]” not in the academic philosophical sense concerned with questions of mind, causality, time, identity, or the structure of reality, but rather in reference to transcendent and non-empirical systems of meaning and existence, including religious cosmologies, sacred narratives, divine moral authority, and models of consciousness assumed to exist beyond biological and neural processes. A more accurate description of my approach would perhaps be “post-metaphysical,” meaning that while recognizing the historical and cultural role of metaphysical systems, I suggest moving toward frameworks grounded more directly in neuroscience, cognitive science, and human experience. This is a public episode. 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Colorful Views

In this conversation with Irina Karpetskaya [https://www.instagram.com/ira.karpetskaya?igsh=OGpwcnJtZGVrM2t1] the discussion begins from an existential place: how to remain emotionally alive and sensitive in a world shaped by suffering, violence, disappointment, depression, and meaninglessness. The conversation explores revolt, emotional endurance, vulnerability, and the tension between protecting oneself and remaining open to human connection. From there the dialogue moves through love, empathy, childhood emotional development, trauma, healing, meditation, close relationships, and emotional regulation. Questions surrounding trust after suffering, psychological fragmentation, and inherited emotional patterns are explored through philosophical and neuroscientific perspectives. The discussion then expands toward hatred, war, ideology, domestic violence, punishment, institutional failure, rehabilitation, dehumanization, and the construction of “the other.” Rather than reducing human behavior to rigid categories such as good and evil, both perspectives attempt to move beyond black and white thinking toward a more pluralistic understanding of human nature and contemporary life.Books mentioned in this episode: * Playing With Death [https://delshad.me/en/books/playing-with-death/] * The Secret Of Unity [https://delshad.me/en/books/the-secret-of-unity/] * The Myth of Sisyphus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus] * Beyond Good and Evil [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Good_and_Evil] Episodes related to the two-volume Neurophilosophy [https://delshad.me/en/podcasts/zharfa/two-volume-neurophilosophy/]: * Embracing nihilism [https://delshad.me/fa/%da%98%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%a7/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c-%d9%82%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%84/%d9%87%d9%85-%d8%a2%d8%ba%d9%88%d8%b4%db%8c-%d8%a8%d8%a7-%d9%86%db%8c%d9%87%db%8c%d9%84%db%8c%d8%b3%d9%85/] * Earthy Provisions [https://delshad.me/fa/%da%98%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%a7/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c-%d9%82%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%84/%d8%aa%d9%88%d8%b4%d9%87-%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d8%b2%d9%85%db%8c%d9%86%db%8c/] * On Why We Fight [https://delshad.me/fa/%da%98%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%a7/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c-%d9%82%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%aa-%d8%af%d9%88%d9%85/%da%86%d8%b1%d8%a7-%d9%85%db%8c-%d8%ac%d9%86%da%af%db%8c%d9%85/] * Responsibility Without Freewill [https://delshad.me/fa/%da%98%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%a7/%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%82%d8%b9%db%8c%d8%aa-%d8%b0%d9%87%d9%86%db%8c/%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%82%d8%b9%db%8c%d8%aa-%d8%b0%d9%87%d9%86%db%8c-%d9%82%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%84/%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%a6%d9%88%d9%84%db%8c%d8%aa-%d9%be%d8%b0%db%8c%d8%b1%db%8c-%d8%ba%db%8c%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%af%db%8c/] * Responsibility at the institutional level [https://delshad.me/fa/%da%98%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%a7/%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%82%d8%b9%db%8c%d8%aa-%d8%b0%d9%87%d9%86%db%8c/%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%82%d8%b9%db%8c%d8%aa-%d8%b0%d9%87%d9%86%db%8c-%d9%82%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%84/%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%a6%d9%88%d9%84%db%8c%d8%aa-%d9%be%d8%b0%db%8c%d8%b1%db%8c-%d8%ba%db%8c%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%af%db%8c/] Figures mentioned in this episode: * Sam Harris [https://www.samharris.org/] * Friedrich Nietzsche [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche] * Albert Camus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus] * Slavoj Žižek [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek] * Michel Foucault [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault] * Jeffrey Epstein [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein] Key terms in this episode: * Pluralism [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralism_(political_philosophy)] * Absurdism [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism] * Dichotomy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichotomy] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wisdorise.com [https://www.wisdorise.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]