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284 - John Vervaeke and Jacob Howland - The Symposium

The Symbolic World

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The Paradox of Equanimity in the Face of the Extremes of the Human Spirit

Socrates had a paradoxical relationship to the unen but non-intelligible source of intelligibility That allows him Right equanimity in the face of the extremes of the human spirit. This is very opposite today. We've got these sort of ideals if we're going to everyone's going to be safe and so forth And you know, I also think by the way else abiities He wants to be safe. He doesn't want to risk things. So it's not that he is stepped out of his humanity because he can feast but he’s been all straight for centuries.

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