Hey, this is the partially examined life episode 302.

Part 2, we've been discussing erasmises the praise of Folly with guest Nathan Gilmore.

You had a point you wanted to start with Wes.

I thought we talked a little bit about the role of Folly in the sense of illusion and

deceit and things like that in human social relations and the way that was kind of reminiscent

of Nietzsche.

So I thought maybe we could read a little bit like this page 43.

He's just got done saying that prudence actually requires experience.

So normally we associate with prudence with rationality and wisdom and here he's going

to say, well, experience requires us to be undeterred in our experimentation with life

and not thwarted by sense of propriety, not thwarted by fear, street smarts.

So yeah, so that kind of experience and then someone might come back and say, this

is the next sort of extension of the argument.

Let's just put it that way.

So page 43 in the penguin.

But if people prefer the sort of prudence which comes from forming judgments on life, please

hear how far those who pride themselves on that account are from having it.

In the first place, it's well known that all human affairs are like the figures of

Salinas described the biosubbiades and have two completely opposite faces.

So that what is death at first sight as they say is life if you look within and vice

versa, life is death.

The same applies to beauty and ugliness, riches and poverty, obscurity and fame, learning

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