PEL Presents PvI#122: Hello from Iran w/ AmirAli Maleki
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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Who is AmirAli Maleki and why is he the first Iranian guest on Philosophy vs. Improv?
This is philosophy versus improv, where two sages try to teach each other a thing or two, and maybe you, the audience, get something out of it as well. This is Mark Lintonmeyer, MCing from the philosophy side, and my co-host is
Mary Hines, joining you from Los Files, Los Angeles, representing improvisation. And we are joined by our guest.
It's me, Amir Ali Maliki. I'm a philosophy researcher based in Iran. Thank you for having me. This is my honor.
Are we your first American podcast? Yes,
of
course. Happy birthday. Congratulations.
Yeah. Yeah, thank you. Yeah. I never talked to the podcast in United States or any places abroad, but my first experience in podcast with one of my best friends who told me, hey, come on, let's talk together about some stuff. And it was his first episode in Iran. And this is exactly my second experience in whole podcast world. Iran, America. Okay, everywhere.
I love it, but you're first international, so apparently you have a penchant for firsts. How fantastic.
I just want to try my best, but your audience I hope we can do something very well together.
That's a great intention. I always start every single improv class I teach always the the first thing of day one is intention setting and why are you here and what you want to get out of it. Because I feel like that's very important to feel it, think it, verbalize it. And then on the last class, we come back and we reflect. And I don't say strengths and weaknesses, I say strengths and weaknesses. and strongers. So looking back on day one, how do you feel like you've become stronger? And where do you want to continue to be? So reflections and intentions for the win.
It's a very great question for me. I'm always trying to talk in international conferences to just talk about the philosophy and the way of thinking in my own country. And really, I love to show to the people of uh around the world how we can even think about different subjects. And especially we are staying in a really, really difficult situation. Situation and because of that, I think it's very necessary for us. And as a person who's born in 2002, I'm really love this new media. For me, it's new. And I'm always run to talking with another person all around the world. Philosophizing in this modern world is kind of like this. You know, we have to talk and discuss together, and maybe if we were back and we put some camera or a microphone between Aristotle and Plato's maybe they do something you know similar to each other.
And I think it's a gift for our days to make connection, talk to each other and try to reach out and see what's going on in the whole world. I think we need to hear more from the Iranian community.
Let me ask sort of the the obvious question I'm sure that is occurring to our listeners or viewers here is wait, you're a philosopher in Iran? Isn't Iran a harsh totalitarian state that would, if you were saying anything that was the least bit heretical, they would stamp down on you. How what is it to be a philosopher in Iran?
Uh, it's very tough, you know. Maybe they are here right now behind my door. I don't know. What is the meaning of philosopher? You know, philosopher is the person who can stand in for freedom and rights and fight for it. I think this is the exact meaning for the philosopher who can stand up for his own pain and his people's pain. I can't call myself Iranian philosopher, but I can't call myself uh philosophy researcher. But in Iran, it's very, very hard. If I want to talk about some of Islamic philosophers just like El Farabi, if you know him, he talked about something essential city. An essential city, the person fight for the first need, for the first desire. And this city is not empty from philosophy because philosophers have to be there for fighting and talking with the people.
And you know, as a remember, they have to talk about what is really important. And I think philosopher in Iran, it means fighter. You have to be a fighter, you have to go through all the problems and talk and Yes, especially so hard. You know, and I'm always trying to do it as best as I can.
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