
49 | Coming to Terms with Human Finitude w/ Prof. Martin Hägglund
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Measure of Value in Capitalism Is Average Socially Necessary Labour Time
I can remember the day that I found out that my free health care in Canada was due to Canada owning and operating like 70% of the minds in the global self. The conditions of freedom for rational organism are very specific as much as we need good nourishment let me try to explain this in a simple way. In an emancipated form of life you can increase the realm of freedom not necessarily by reducing socially necessary work but when that's socially necessary work, he says. Being able to honor the ambitions of the tradition is important because it means being able to do things for the people and the causes that matter to you.
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