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Ep. 251: Simone Weil's Ideal Society

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Is There a Nobler Destiny for Man?

"It is not possible to conceive of a nobler destiny for man than that which brings him directly to grips with naked necessity," Dubovar writes. "That's just a naked echo of Dubovar, whether Beauvoir is echoing her vice versa", she adds. The author says we can engage in hypothetical reasoning and planning because on the macro level, there are these causal regularities.

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