
Ep. 22 - Descartes vs. Hobbes
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
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Hobbes' Letters to Day Carts
Hobbes says matter lacks meaning, purpose, normativity. How could you possibly get all of those things out of matter? If you're a reasoner, you care about the truth. But science is teaching us that the world is purposeless. Matter is meaningless. There's no normative standard or structure in matter. It's just actually how it is and how it actually is, is valueless. And I'm going to act on day carts on behalf here."
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