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Mark Lilla: Yearning for Questions S1 E16

Meditations with Zohar

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Are You a Pluralist?

i suppose we're never done with the question of what's worth wanting, and that keeps us coming back from more and more often to the same books. Yet, you also mention something about regime dependence. And when i think of american culture, especially to day, i think that people don't necessarily find it obvious that they're going to get the answer to that question by reading a two thousand year old book or even a 100 year old book. So are you a pluralist as to where a person can turn to to get a help figuring out where they should go to think about a contemplative and meaningful life? Or do you have a sense of the superiority of the humanities, or

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