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49 | Coming to Terms with Human Finitude w/ Prof. Martin Hägglund

What's Left of Philosophy

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Is There a Realm of Necessity?

I think maybe this can help get at one of the questions that I wanted to ask you how to do it. You talk in certain places both in the book and also in the responses to the critiques that the book has gotten. This is why this is a fairly radical critique of capitalism, where it's not going to be sufficient to say "establish" what we value. And so if my time isn't determined coercively from without, but where I have the possibility of doing something meaningful specific with my time for myself or for others, then your rational aim should be minimizing the realm of necessity and increasing the realm of freedom. It's just a really clean line, I don't know,

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