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Ep 180: Livestream: ”The Open Hand of Reason”

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Why Aren't the Majors Writing More About Philosophy?

The job of a philosopher is not to be a magician, nor explain anything outside of their interests. No way we just spells can understand that you know why he would devote a few lines to writing scornfully about the way the majors of his time peddled spells. They're probably rude. Maybe they were writing barbed articles at the time about how Plato's reason was an ugly feature of modern Greek culture. He goes on to write okay not Plato this author is quite the philosophers of the centuries right after Plato had even less time for magic than he did. End quote. Yes, just as car mechanics and chemists do they've got less time formagic as well we've all got jobs

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