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The Examined Life

In Our Time: Philosophy

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What Is the Nature of Life?

For aristotle, understanding the nature of human beings was to understand how a human being ought to live. But it doesn't presuppose that there's a way to live which will be right. In modern science, to understand the nature of something is merely to understand the causes and effects. And this is one of the things that analytic philosophy does, it takes ideas which people think they have clear, and forces them to see contradictions in it.

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