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Richard Seaford on the Origins of the Soul

Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

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The Importance of the Up-Priority Rationality

Sirabji and Parfit's dispute is undecidable. The soul the inner self in my view is a construction that's really pretty much all you can say it comes to trying to resolve the dispute between them. If you look at the anthropological evidence you can see how the arrival of Western economic models in particular individual property promotes the belief in the bounded individual self. I'm this for example there's a passage I'm thinking of written by a Melanisian anthropologist who is describing the arrival of the trade store in a community.

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