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[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

CHAPTER

The Art of Flirting

The ancient greeks had a crazier, which gets translated as weakness of the will. When you know what is right, but at a key moment, you don't do it because the will is weak. And their solution to this was that art or culture has to support our will. It has to constantly keep alive ideas we assent to in theory, but forget about in practice. Thesis an art, the art of flirting: We kind of internalized these very old puritan ideas that anything like that would be an immediate threat to a relationship....

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