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Ep. 283: Alain Badiou on Love (Part One)

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The Impraise of Love Is a Very Practical One

The impraise of love is a very practical one. This is still hoidy toidy philosophy, that decoding is half the fund. But he does get to the point. I don't know if any of this would help you in your relationships,. at least he identifies some sophists that he's arguing against. Some illusions of like love is not emerging. It's not two people coming together as one. That was a powerful poetic image, but if you actually try to do that and live your life that way, that'd be disastrous. And it's also not just, oh, it's just sex with some fancy words on top of it; there are social illusions that make the

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