[Unedited] Jennifer Michael Hecht with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Only Reason Not to Commit Suicide
The enlightenment saw it as a clear goal to stop the church a being involved in this, and to argue against that god was so concerned with your details. And then in reaction enlightenment and some kind of christening as a form of moral freedom that's right. But when you actually go back and read the myth of sisiphus, camu definitely starts the thing with, there is only one philosophical question, and that's suicide. He says life is absurd. There's no out outer reason that you have to but that suicide is the wrong step.
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