At “Around the Corner,” I believe that if we take just one more step forward, truth or new knowledge lies waiting at the corner.
Let’s stroll together through philosophy, current events, and social issues, in search of overlooked perspectives and thoughts.
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Emotional Depth as a Gift, Spirituality, and Mutual Connection
A reflection on an emotional struggle that began around this time last year, and on what it means not to “move on” completely, but instead to learn how to live alongside one’s emotions.
From years of emotional suppression to the moment those feelings finally overflowed, this episode explores therapy, friendship, and the gradual process of learning how to express emotion more honestly. It also looks at the strange paradox of becoming closer to one’s inner self while realizing how little one may truly understand it.
Through meditation, awe walks, and reflections on spirituality, the corner considers emotional depth not only as a source of pain, but also as a gift—one that makes the world feel more vivid, beautiful, and at times overwhelming. It also extends this idea into thoughts on love, heartbreak, connection, and the longing for mutuality.
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7 Mar 2026
“A Foggy Tale” — After the Watch Fast-Forwards, the Gunshots Still Echo — Second Part
Using A Foggy Tale as a starting point, this cornoer reflects on the White Terror from a contemporary perspective: how historical amnesia in Taiwan has made it difficult for many people to understand the suffering of that era, and to see how state violence, surveillance, and the erasure of memory continue to shape Taiwan’s present political reality and collective loneliness.
From the absurd symbolism of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, to the torture of political prisoners, to the meaning of the “two drops of water,” this corner explores the pain that comes with knowledge, the loneliness of those who awaken earlier than others, and how the quiet efforts of ordinary people can help pass historical memory and transitional justice on to future generations.
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1 Feb 2026
“A Foggy Tale” — After the Watch Fast-Forwards, the Gunshots Still Echo — First Part
The film A Foggy Tale as a gateway to the White Terror era of 1950s Taiwan, following A-gueh’s journey to Taipei to retrieve her brother’s body after a political execution and revealing how state violence shattered individual lives and families amid historical obscurity.
With the character Zhao Gongdao—who wraps tragedy in comedy—and the symbolism of the watch, reflecting on guilt, quiet mutual care rooted in Taiwanese everyday life, and why justice felt so distant in that era.
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27 Dec 2025
Three Days of Happiness: The Scales That Weigh the Value of a Life
Three Days of Happiness reflects on whether the value of life can be measured by external standards, through three perspectives: money, the understanding of others, and self-identity. Ultimately, only what we define for ourselves—and what genuinely brings us happiness—constitutes the true meaning of life.
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6 Dec 2025
Causation & Possible Worlds 2
This episode explains how we use “distance” between possible worlds to judge counterfactuals like “If I hadn’t shot, he wouldn’t have died,” and why we usually choose worlds most similar to ours. It then introduces David Lewis’s “small miracle” idea to explain how one key event can differ while laws of nature stay effectively the same.
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8 Nov 2025
Causation & Possible Worlds
Returning to causation in the natural world, we use counterfactual conditionals to analyze “if not A, then no B.”
To judge whether a counterfactual is true or false, we introduce possible worlds: in worlds highly similar to reality but with a key fact altered, we observe whether the outcome changes—thereby distinguishing genuine causation from mere coincidence.
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12 Oct 2025
Causation & The Imputable Cause Theory
The Imputable Cause Theory refines how law determines responsibility beyond mere causation. Unlike adequate causation, it asks whether someone created a legally prohibited risk and whether that risk actually caused the harm. Through examples like childbirth and traffic accidents, we know that the law focuses not just on causal links but on the social and legal purpose behind responsibility — distinguishing natural causation from moral and legal judgment.
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13 Sept 2025
Causation & Adequacy
The purpose of determining causation in law is to identify responsibility. If we rely solely on counterfactual conditionals to establish a “conditional causal relationship,” we risk including overly remote or accidental factors within the scope of liability.
Therefore, the concept of “adequate causation,” judged according to general life experience and ordinary circumstances, is introduced to apply stricter standards and exclude those who should not be held liable.
However, the notion of “adequacy” still carries ambiguity and paradoxes (such as the idea that “if one lives, one will eventually die”), making it difficult to define culpability solely on this basis. Is there a better theoretical approach that could more effectively achieve the legal goal of assigning responsibility?
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20 Aug 2025
Causation & Counterfactual Conditionals
In philosophy, we can use what’s called a “counterfactual conditional” to judge causation: If A didn’t happen, then B wouldn’t happen either. This helps us tell the difference between mere correlation and real causation.
But it’s not always so simple. Take this case: people eventually die no matter what. So when someone is shot, how do we define that death as being caused by the gunshot?
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13 Jul 2025
A Sketch of a Female Murderer & The Illusion of Justice
When we face the most extreme acts of violence in society, we often hope to use the death penalty as a way to end evil. But does such punishment truly deliver justice? Are we relying too heavily on a simplified narrative—reducing human nature to black-and-white labels so we can quickly decide who “deserves sympathy” and who “deserves scorn”? When we support a form of punishment, are we also prepared to bear the social and moral responsibilities it represents?
📖Book mentioned in this episode: A Sketch of a Female Murderer: How She Murdered Her Mother, Mother-in-Law, and Husband
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21 Jun 2025
The 100% Responsibility & Metaphysical Death Penalty
This episode explores the complexities of the death penalty, questioning how society can justify such an absolute punishment when individual responsibility is shaped by external factors.
21 Jun 2025
Death Penalty on the First Corner
This episode explores three main arguments against the death penalty, including deterrence, judicial error, and human rights, raising moral and legal questions.
21 Jun 2025
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The host introduces "Around the Corner," a podcast exploring philosophy, current events, and social issues to uncover overlooked perspectives and new knowledge.
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