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49 | Coming to Terms with Human Finitude w/ Prof. Martin Hägglund

What's Left of Philosophy

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What's Your Theory of Change?

I think there's a very important philosophical distinction between possibility and probability so you can say what people do they think like yeah this is so improbable I'm not even gonna so like this the wrong kind of realism. What I'm trying to show is that it's possible and that we demanded of ourselves whenever we hold ourselves to an ideal of freedom and equality and emancipation. It's really articulating the possibility and the necessity of actualizing that possibility for having an emancipated form of life while recognizing how improbable it can seem.

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