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#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Right Name for Our Age Is a Technological Age
Heidegger thinks that one of the crucial things that we need to contend with when we think about what it is to be us now is that the right name for our age is a technological age. To be something is to be what's sitting there as an infinitely flexible reserve to be optimized and made efficient, he says. And Heidegger thinks whatever it is that stands at the ground of what we are, it's not another thing. It's not another entity. There's some way, and this is partly why I was interested in Meister Eckhart,. He says, what there is is there's giving going on in the world. And we're the grateful recipient of it.
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