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EP.14 Andrew Hui on aphorisms and the universal library

Reverb by Sane

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The Pursuit of Knowledge Is a Way to Build Identity

i wanted to just get your open thoughts around this idea the pursuit of knowledge is a way to build identity, and that you can either have complete knowledge or human freedom, enough. I mean, one of the most persisting myths of western maternity is that of faust, right? A faust famously is the person who sold his soul to the devil for a finite period of absolute knowledge and complete power,. But who was faust? He was originally aa professor of theology from wittenberg, the birthplace of the protestant reformation so there is a danger to knowledge, because knowledge is power. And francis bacon taught us that. That's also another foundational proposition of madern

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