38 - Graham Priest: The Metaphysics of Nothingness
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The Metaphysical Problem of Reincarnation
I think one of the things that makes a great philosopher is that they do have these kind of profound points of insight, which subsequent generations can go back to and find new things in all the time. I mean, you know, if you look at the great philosophers, they all have a world picture. And it's very rare that they don't have points of insight. So this relates to something else we talked about, fiction. Because Fiction is not just telling a story, or at least, good fiction doesn't simply tell stories. It actually, you get points of insight about something, often humans, but maybe other things, political structures, depending on the context.
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