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177. Angus Fletcher — 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
The Michael Shermer Show
The Rise of Reading and Novels
The rise of reading and novels does something. Maybe it doesn't do theory of mind like some people think. I've spent my entire career as an english professor being that i'm an idiot, because i care about emotion,. Because i care about empathy, because we don't have to hit them over the head or shoot them. And this is exactly where stephen and i are a hundreder cent in agreement. Philosophy in modern universities is all but dead. It's turned into meta ethics and various meta forms of philosophy and critique. You know, you might argue with people like no kant, or maybe the romantic period, to know, this idea, this ambition, has been completely extinguished
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