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Plato's Allegory of the Cave

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The Importance of Enlightenment in Philosophy

I just think it preys on peculiarly modern sort of vanities and prejudices. People will be like, yeah, you're out of the key if you're enlightened. That's what goes on in the classroom. The more I've thought that I've made progress in philosophical education, the more I actually see in myself, the guy that gets angry at the guy who's pointing out my opinions are not false or an R-false. One other point in this is totally unrelated, but I love when Alex wears horizontally striped t-shirts because it makes me think that he's actually French. You know, I just see him like a bag. It looks like he's in a mental

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