Academy of Ideas
Academy of Ideas is a podcast that explores philosophy, psychology, and politics through in-depth essays and analyses. It aims to help listeners understand the ideas that shape our world and how to apply them to daily life. Episodes often delve into topics like Nietzsche, Jung, Stoicism, and the nature of power. The show is produced by the educational platform Academy of Ideas.
Episodes
Carl Jung - How Life Changes After 40
Epicurus and the Good Life
The Darkside of AI – Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity
Why Fatherless Boys Struggle to Become Men
Nietzsche and the Will to Power
The Psychology of Fairy Tales
Introduction to the Scientific Revolution
The Psychology of the Devouring Mother
Introduction to Democritus
Ernest Becker and Heroism
Escape Mediocrity - How to Stop Wasting your Life
Introduction to Anaxagoras
John Stuart Mill - On Liberty
Introduction to Propaganda
The Negative Mother Complex – The Unconscious Forces that Cripple Men
What is Brainwashing?
Introduction to Empedocles
Why Weak People Create Hard Times - The Biological Decline of the West
Nietzsche and Self Overcoming
How to Overcome a Mother Complex - The Man-Child
Introduction to Parmenides
Introduction to Schopenhauer: Schopenhauer's Ethics
Why We Fear Our Highest Potential - The Jonah Complex
Introduction to Heraclitus
The Psychology of Online Haters - Nietzsche's "Poisonous Flies"
Introduction to Thales, Anaximenes, and Anaximander
Why We Sabotage Ourselves - The Psychology of Self-Handicapping
Introduction to Existentialism
Carl Jung’s Apocalyptic Vision
Carl Jung - Are Demons Real?
Introduction to the Presocratics
What If the “Crazy” Ones Are Right? - Conspiracy Theories
Nietzsche and Metaphysics
The School of Anxiety – Overcoming Anxiety Disorders
Why Stupid People are Destroying Society - The Laws of Human Stupidity
Big Pharma and the Big Lie – The Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Illness
Overcoming Nihilism
Rapid Personality Transformation – The Psychology of Quantum Change
Why The Western Worldview Limits Human Potential
Active and Passive Nihilism
Carl Jung - Your Problems Don't Lie in the Past
How to Affirm Life – Nietzsche’s Formula for Greatness
Nietzsche and the Death of God
Why Men Fear Women
Nietzsche and the True World
Why You Should Pretend to Be Less Intelligent than You Are
Suffering and the Meaning of Life
How to Escape a Meaningless Life
What is Religion?
Dark Psychology - The Hidden Motives of Social Life
Introduction to Epistemology
Ernest Becker and the Fear of Death
The Cure for the Sickness of Modern Society - Henry David Thoreau
Introduction to Nihilism
The Mystery Science Can’t Explain — Near-Death Experiences
Clarence Darrow and Pacifism
Frédéric Bastiat - The Law
Introduction to Ethics
Unused Creativity Destroys You - Actualize your Creative Potential
Gustave Le Bon: The Nature of Crowds
Why are People so Obedient? - Compliance and Conformity
Introduction to Schopenhauer - The World as Will
Introduction to Nietzsche
The Dumbing Down of Humanity – Stolen Focus
Introduction to Metaphysics
The Psychology of War - Are We Doomed to Destroy Ourselves?
Introduction to Diogenes the Cynic
Carl Jung and The Most Important Rule of Life
William James and the Sick Soul
Why the Lack of Beauty is Destroying Society
The Ideas of Socrates
Is This How the West Ends?
The Limits of Science - A Critique of Scientism
Why the News Promotes Ignorance and Mental Illness
The Archetypal Western Path, the Last Man, and the Daimon
How to Cultivate Your Sixth Sense – The Power of Intuition
Why Technology is Enslaving and Dehumanizing Us
Socrates: The Man and His Life
The Psychology of the Man-Child - The Neurosis that is Crippling Men
Socrates: The Socratic Problem
