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32. Skye Cleary on Simone de Beauvoir, existentialism and how to be authentic

Philosophy as a Way of Life

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Is It Inauthentic to Learn From Others?

Block: I don't think it's inauthentic to learn from other people and understand how they lived. And we learn about our own being through our engagement with them, he says. But where it does become problematic is where we're like sort of blindly following what someone else is doing; that's obviously inauthentic. Block: What gives life meaning? Don't stop living before you're dead.

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