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You're listening to the partialexaminedlife, a podcast by some guys who are at one point

set on doing philosophy for living but then thought better of it. Our question for episode

251 is what is freedom and we read Simone Vays, theoretical picture of a free society from

1934. For more information, please visit partialexaminedlife.com. This is Mark Linson-Mire,

freely putting this idea for a podcast into action in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin, not avoiding the necessity of necessity in Austin, Texas.

This is Wesol, one not defined by a relationship between desire and its satisfaction.

In Cambridge, Massachusetts. This is Dylan Casey Struggling, he gets

necessity in my quest for liberty in Madison, Wisconsin.

All right, we had a long episode already, but this is going to be a short one relatively.

That's the goal anyway. So he's Mark's dream. Long readings, short episodes.

We want to do this justice. We can't do that. Some of its broad themes last time. I was

throwing out a few elements, but this is not going to be a typical description of a utopia.

It is kind of a utopian, what do you mean by that? It's not typical or?

Just because it starts so much with what does freedom feel like to an individual

and going on this long tangent into what is it like to do mathematics and things? Before it finally

gets around to what would this actually mean for a relationship to society? I just

picture a utopia, you immediately walk out and there's a narrative like in her land of look,

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