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Mark Vernon 'Everything in philosophy is a footnote to Plato'. (And quite a lot is a footnote to Kant).

The New Abnormal

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The Ego, the Art of the Ego

We got a bit caught up and stuck about the ego in the 20 20 first century, partly because of old fraid who calse names it the ego. And i think that why, your my work in mental health teaches me this, that you don't want to have no as life falls apart an you become mentally ill. That's one of the definitions of psychosiss when you just have no ego at all, so you can't maintain the sense of difference between yourself and others. We are creatures for whom our own existence is too small for us, and we want to feel part of something larger. The struggles in life is how you can both own and know yourself and be fully

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