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Ep. 264: Plato's "Timaeus" on Cosmology (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Path to Sub-Optimality

The world being cannot be a created world. There is no way to create that. Once you say it and be created, you are talking about a world of becoming. That's subject to all the classic flaws involved in the world of become. And so in order to be tilted or have any kind of direction towards the perfect, you need to have an account of the mistakes. So I don't think they're mistakes. I think they're compromises. When you embody something, you have to make compromises with what otherwise would be your pure vision.

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