Episode 010 – The Social Cost of 'Seeing Through the Veil'
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English - October 19, 2021 15:06 - 36 minutes - 41.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPhilosophy Society & Culture Arts Books Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: 9. What It Means to Engage With Life as Philosopher
The conclusion of this episode's inquiry is that our freedom to choose is bounded by what choices are available to us, in this life, in this day and age. However much the choices provided to us by life in the 21st century bounds the horizon of our experience, and limits our thought of what being is and what it could be, whether or not these bounds and limits and order which this life provides us is good or bad, or enriching, for the individual, the culture, the species, is left as a matter to question, by the end of the episode which references Socrates and the Buddha, as philosophers who saw through the veil and have become enigmatic as a result.
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