PEL 2026 Kickoff Nightcap

Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. It's our Partially Examined Life 2026 kickoff or 2025 retrospective, something like that. It's a nightcap recording, but whereas those are usually, restricted to, partially feminine life supporters, this one is going out on the public feed to, say thank you to everybody for being faithful listeners or or maybe this is the first episode you're ever hearing. Don't make this the first episode you're ever hearing. That's not you're gonna be disappointed. I'm Mark. Oh, we're introducing ourselves? Why not? Okay. I'm Seth. I'm Wes. I'm not sure why we're introducing ourselves. I'm Dylan. See, now people know the voices if this is the first one they're ever hearing. They ignored my warning. The thing that I had said maybe we should do today is pretend that we have very limited time left recording this podcast. So this is not what should we do next. This is if you only could record five more episodes, what are the five topics that you really wanted to do before you just left the world of philosophy, before you became senile, what what whatever the reason. I think we've done them all. Well, that's that's a different condition than I thought, but that's okay. Yeah. I don't I don't know how to implement that one. It's too much pressure. Yeah. That's a version of the if I could only bring five philosophy books to a desert island, which ones would I bring? Yes. Yes. Your bucket list. I mean, if that were the case, it would only be things we've already read. That's the problem. So I have things I wanna read, but all the things that I would bring to the desert island. I wouldn't bring some random book to a desert island. Like, if some book, I don't know what's in. Oh, this is disappointing. You're gonna be in purgatory and you have to only have things you haven't read before. Like, I'll just bring the the Hegel's phenomenology and then I can be both disappointed and intrigued for a thousand years. Mhmm. Because I think that actually leads to one thing. I'll just throw out one of mine, which is I wanna actually do some of the second half of being in time. I've heard descriptions of we use we refer to the they. I'm sure that since, the book seems a little synoptic, I don't know if I forget if that's the the correct word, but, you know, where each part of it is sort of a is a, prismatic reflection of the rest of the book. In other words, he finished the book and then probably went back to the beginning and changed things. So there's mentions of these things, his ex so called existentialism in the first half that we have looked at, but I've never actually read his second half. So, yeah, that that bringing for Hegel's phenomenology is not out of the question even though we have read part of it. …