49 | Coming to Terms with Human Finitude w/ Prof. Martin Hägglund
What's Left of Philosophy
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What Is the Role of the State in the Institutionalization of Spiritual Freedom?
I want to ask you about the state because I think in some Marxist discourses might seem as if you're departing from the line of the withering away the state but your conclusion is that some form of the state is necessary for the institutionalization of spiritual freedom. How would you respond to someone saying no in order for that to be true we need to abolish the state? And what do you say when a person says they are not free until all people around them are free, and how does this relate to Higgles-Blossville right so that might make for a nice continuity?"
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