
92 Jason M. Wirth on Zen, the Kyoto School, and Whether Nietzsche is a Buddha
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast
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The United States, a Place of Immeasurable Contrast
i'd like to know how you ended up in that small group of well specialized intellectuals who engage with something like continental philosophy. I think my answer would be complex, but i will just maybe delineate a few features of it. What happened in the fifties had a lot to do with philosophy becoming much more progmatic and rigorous. It's generally been true to the human experience that philosophy is always the minority report. And so i would say the vocation of philosophy, for the conscientious all over the world, is to engage the practice of the minorityReport.
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