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Episode 483: Chloé Cooper Jones
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The Experience of Beauty Is a Really Powerful Tool for Shifting Concepts
The philosopher and novelist iris murdock has this idea that she calls unselfing. All the ways in which we can see the world, of course, all the things that we perceive, are informed by concepts. So if you want to shift your choices or change your behavior, you actually have to go back and shift your concepts. And so one of the ways she thinks you can do that is through the contemplation of beauty and the experience of beauty. That necessarily pulls you outside of yourself and into awe or bewilderment or excitement about the external world.
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