Ep 272: The Ferment of Our Founders
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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What's the Job of the Philosopher in India?
India presents us with the opposite problem, which is that it has politically innovated. The people have typically looked at the constitution for that innovation. But that's actually amiss for the reasons you yourself spelt out earlier. And most starkly, you see that in pate. Petal doesn't write at all. Like genna, like his adversary, very little. Write, next to no writings, lots of speeches, but a huge influence on indian life. So how do you kand of so the challenge then was to kind of see their action as thought, and then write it up as a kind of conceptual heft.
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