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Episode #157 ... The Creation of Meaning - Beauvoir

Philosophize This!

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The Uncomfortable Discontent of Existence

In the history of philosophy, almost every creative act is a tacit acknowledgment that the world is not good enough. This could be why so many enormously talented creators are sometimes tortured as people. The discomfort all these thinkers have been trying to solve is what she calls the ambiguity of existence.

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