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Episode #174 ... Simone Weil - The Mathematician

Philosophize This!

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Simone Vay's Writings Are Not Just Criticism

People learn through intense social conditioning, as well as just tendencies in their biology, to favor this constant antagonism towards other people over actually getting closer to the truth. To Simone Vay, attention for her was not a set of tasks that you have to perform and then after doing those things, you'll get to thetruth. It wasn't a method. And it was an orientation that you had towards everything in your reality, including this process of exchanging knowledge. She'd probably say, sure, somebody can absolutely choose to see the quest for knowledge in their life as a constant battle between competing positions. But a totally different way of seeing knowledge that's just as reasonable from this different way of

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