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PREMIUM-Ep. 284: Mark Twain’s Philosophy of Human Nature (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Are We Born With All These Needs?

"What we're doing when we educate infants and and children, what are we fighting against?" he asks. "I think there's another model of education in which it's more rasoan, right? We're born good and civilization tends to corrupt." But on this view, i think he's thinking that we're born with all these impulses, and we need education to refine them," the author adds.

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