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

What's Left of Philosophy

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We Are Not Just Like, We're Living Beings

With Hegel, I call we're spiritually free, but spiritually free doesn't mean supernatural spooky. It means that we are distinct kind of organism, which we could also call a rational organism for whom it is a question what counts as flourishing. Like all other living all living beings act on reasons and things can be good or bad for them, but they can't have the wrong idea about what is good or bad. In light of that, and that's also what we are the only ones who have modes of production as organisms, historically specifically most productive,. We can produce things differently and reproduce our lives in different ways.

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