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Matthew B. Crawford on Practical Philosophy and Shop Class as Soulcraft | This is The Opinion To Care About

The Daily Stoic

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The Philosophy of Plato, Is It a Phenomenon?

If i was to think of, like, what philosopher or writer i might suspect that someone like you would be really into, plutarch might be at the top of my list. Even though he was greek, it didn't feel like he was a, you know, sort of very abstract he was very practical. There always seemed to me be an immensely practical and down to earth greediness to plutarch. I like that because it fits with his method rigt about half of his corpuse consists of these lives, of his biographies that he wrote. So it's a very sort of sociological and phenomena logical approach,. How how do the permanent problems of existence show up

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