We were listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who had one point

set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 291 is something like, why do people produce ritual, mythology,

and religion?

We read Ernst Cossierer's, an essay on man from 1944, chapter 6 and 7, and Suzanne Langer's

Philosophy in the New Key from 1942, also chapter 6 and 7.

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This is Mark Linson, my name is Madison Wisconsin, speaker of the Linguah Adamica, the real

language of the first ancestors of man which expressed the very nature and essence of things.

This is Seth Pascon, superhuman, but not divine in my mythological context in Boston, Texas.

This is Wes Owen using my half dead progenitors jaw as a fish hook, but I'm using to create

the world in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Excellent.

Nice, nice.

So continuing on our epic quest through these two books here, let's get on to it.

We are going to finish this book and talk about aesthetics and we didn't because it's

too long.

And Dylan was vacationing and had people over and was not ready to do this.

But he'll join us for part three because there's going to be more and at least we'll do Langer.

So here I, since he was the one that didn't read Cassier to start with, let's go ahead

and chapter 6 for him is the definition of man in terms of his human culture.

So it's a very short chapter that sets states out his whole project and how he's going to

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