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Zena Hitz: Learning and the Good Life S1 E4

Meditations with Zohar

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Are We Too Lost in Thought?

I don't know if there's a principaled point of equilibrium. I think it has to be discerned sort of case by case, he says. A political community needs to support the highest the highest developments of human beings. It does that through the support of the arts and intellectual life. And i that's what, that's what a political community's for. There's not some neutral way, neutral set of resources, which we then decide to use. We have to justify its use for something, anything that's not practical. So why are you asking me to justify the ten million dollars that make up the national endowment for the humanities? Doesn't this explain how America spends over

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