Paris, 1765.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, author of the revolutionary educational treatise Émile, receives an unexpected visitor: a young man claiming to be one of the five children Rousseau abandoned to a foundling hospital.

In this imagined confrontation, philosophy meets the human cost of living by ideas rather than love.

A meditation on the gap between theory and practice, and whether brilliant ideas can redeem terrible actions.

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What if we could hear the conversations philosophy never recorded? The doubts philosophers never confessed? The moments that shaped ideas but left no trace?

Each episode explores these hidden hinges of intellectual history through imagined-but-plausible dialogues, letters, and confessions—rigorously researched, philosophically grounded, and designed to honor both historical context and human complexity.

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This series combines human philosophical direction (Dr. David Calvo Vélez) with AI creative tools: Claude (script), ElevenLabs (voice), Suno (music), Adobe Firefly (sound), Midjourney (cover art).

Every episode is human-curated, edited, and quality-controlled. Not automated content—AI-augmented philosophical storytelling where technology serves a human creative vision.

Final production: David Calvo Vélez in Audacity.

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Contact: david.calvo@gmail.com

Córdoba, 1195.

In the courtyard of the Great Mosque, manuscripts burn. The philosopher Ibn Rushd—known to the West as Averroes—stands beside the man who ordered their destruction: the Caliph's religious enforcer.

As smoke rises from decades of commentary on Aristotle, two men debate whether reason can coexist with faith, whether philosophy strengthens or corrupts belief.

One will walk away into exile. The other will sleep soundly.

An examination of certainty, doubt, and the price of intellectual freedom.

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Original music for this episode: Listen on Suno

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About Thresholds of Thought

What if we could hear the conversations philosophy never recorded? The doubts philosophers never confessed? The moments that shaped ideas but left no trace?

Each episode explores these hidden hinges of intellectual history through imagined-but-plausible dialogues, letters, and confessions—rigorously researched, philosophically grounded, and designed to honor both historical context and human complexity.

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Production & Transparency

This series combines human philosophical direction (Dr. David Calvo Vélez) with AI creative tools: Claude (script), ElevenLabs (voice), Suno (music), Adobe Firefly (sound), Midjourney (cover art).

Every episode is human-curated, edited, and quality-controlled. Not automated content—AI-augmented philosophical storytelling where technology serves a human creative vision.

Final production: David Calvo Vélez in Audacity.

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Contact: david.calvo@gmail.com

Alexandria, March 415 CE.

As Christian mobs gather in the streets, the philosopher and mathematician Hypatia writes one final letter to her former student, Synesius of Cyrene—now a Christian bishop.

In her words: a farewell to the Library, reflections on the twilight of classical thought, and a haunting question about whether ideas can survive the death of those who carry them.

A meditation on intellectual courage in the face of fanaticism.

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Original music for this episode: Listen on Suno

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About Thresholds of Thought

What if we could hear the conversations philosophy never recorded? The doubts philosophers never confessed? The moments that shaped ideas but left no trace?

Each episode explores these hidden hinges of intellectual history through imagined-but-plausible dialogues, letters, and confessions—rigorously researched, philosophically grounded, and designed to honor both historical context and human complexity.

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Production & Transparency

This series combines human philosophical direction (Dr. David Calvo Vélez) with AI creative tools: Claude (script), ElevenLabs (voice), Suno (music), Adobe Firefly (sound), Midjourney (cover art).

Every episode is human-curated, edited, and quality-controlled. Not automated content—AI-augmented philosophical storytelling where technology serves a human creative vision.

Final production: David Calvo Vélez in Audacity.

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Contact: david.calvo@gmail.com