We're listening to the partially examined life I 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 275 is something like, how does one do philosophy?

We read the introduction of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit from 1807.

For more information please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com.

This is Mark Linson-Mier intruding upon the imminent rhythm of the notion in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Wes Allman just as much subject as substance in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey shaping my concrete self into a simple determinateness in Madison, Wisconsin.

In the preface to a partially examined life podcast, it's customary for the hosts to provide

a pity self-descriptor based on the reading.

But with regards to this podcast that seems not only superfluous but in light of the subject

new, true even inappropriate and counterproductive.

Therefore, Seth Pascon, Austin, Texas.

Hey, fellas, we had a longer than usual break between episodes so we could get supercharged

on this but I think we did that to varying degrees.

Or do extra wakeboarding.

You got the case.

Yes, Dylan and I were on vacation together because we're part of the same extended family

if people didn't know and I did all my reading on that and Dylan did not.

I did not.

Seth, you were just traveling to, right?

We went to Mexico for a vacation and then we went to Florida for a wedding over the weekend

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