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Episode 2: Descartes’s Meditations: What Can We Know?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Is It Better to Do Philosophy Now That You're Retired?

In some ways, i'm really fascinated by this concept. He's suggesting that this activity of doing philosophy is a reflective activity that's better res ved for the mature te you know, the retired, the old. Now that he's filled his life full of experience, he can sit back and actually do philosophy. And now that he has no bodily passions, which is very interestingnow, i always found my bodily passions to make me a better thinker. But he's basically saying, i couldn't do my good thinking until i had lived my life and done all the things i was going to do. I can at put some he puts a parenthetical in there. Nd,

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