
Ep. 251: Simone Weil's Ideal Society
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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How to Eliminate or Remove Superstition
The more we demystify the world through technology and through advancement of knowledge, you habituate chunks of the causal chain that keep things distant from you. It's no longer gods of thunder and whatever, it just becomes weather. So when we not only turn that into a science, but we start to do work associated with that, then that essentially is how you eliminate or remove superstition. The difference is capital for he who applies method has no need to conceive it in his mind at the moment he is applying it. This can be handed over to pieces of metal as well as better living members of society. And one would seem as though the worker had transferred its abode from the
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