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Conversations, lecture series and talks from the Turan Talk YouTube channel — in Dari, for curious minds everywhere.

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Turan Talk with Arman

Every episode of the podcast, filmed. The newest is first.

Audio episodes

Episode 12

Knowledge and Awareness

Episode 11

Freedom of Thought

Episode 10

Does Humanity Need Religion?

Episode 9

Rationality

Episode 8

Dogmatism, Part 3

Episode 7

Dogmatism, Part 2

Episode 6

Dogmatism, Part 1

Episode 5

Hesiod: The Birth of the Gods

Episode 4

Homer: The Iliad and the Odyssey

Episode 3

Why the History of Philosophy Matters

Episode 2

What Is Philosophy?

Episode 1

What Is Awareness?

Lecture series · 10 parts

Ethics: an introduction

A ten-part series on moral philosophy: the major schools, right and wrong, objectivity, free will, and why we should live morally at all.

Part 1

درآمدی بر اخلاقیات

An introduction to ethics

Part 2

مکاتب عمده‌ی اخلاقی

The major schools of ethics

Part 3

درست و نادرست در اخلاقیات

Right and wrong in ethics

Part 4

اخلاقیات؛ عینی یا ذهنی؟

Is morality objective or subjective?

Part 5

مسئله‌ی جبر و اختیار در اخلاقیات

Free will and determinism in ethics

Part 6

جبر و اختیار در اسلام: بخش اول

Free will and predestination in Islam, part 1

Part 7

جبر و اختیار در اسلام: بخش دوم

Free will and predestination in Islam, part 2

Part 8

جبر و اختیار در طبیعت‌گرایی

Free will in naturalism

Part 9

هزینه‌های اخلاقی زیستن

The costs of living morally

Part 10

چرا باید اخلاقی زیست؟

Why should we live morally?

Talks

Single talks

Talk

آزاداندیشی چیست؟

What is free thinking?

Talk

تفکیک میان مباحث عقلی، نقلی و تجربی

Telling rational, scriptural and empirical arguments apart

Talk

ما و متون مقدس

We and the sacred texts

Talk

بحران ناسازگاری اسلام با مدرنیته

The crisis of Islam’s incompatibility with modernity