Ep. 330: Kierkegaard's "Either/Or": The Aesthetic Life (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

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🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Continuing on "Diapsalmata" and "Rotation of Crops" from the "Either" portion of Kierkegaard's pseudonymous book.

We talk through more of K's aphorisms, his narrator's solution to boredom, and we take the critique personally: Is this Romantic view described one that we held as younger people (or now)?

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0:00.0	Oh God. He is. You come up on half time. You're five year old.
0:08.0	Oh, God.
0:10.0	Yes. You know, you come up on halftime, your five-year-old's like, you coming to bed,
0:16.7	daddy? No, we get me chips then?
0:19.7	Chips?
0:20.7	No, not those chips.
0:21.7	Not spicy, I don't want those. I don't want it.
0:24.0	Just going through that. Okay. I'm chosen for a gluten-free brownie right now or a blondeie. I take that hook a brother up.
0:32.0	I feel like this should be on the record. or a Blondie I take that hook a brother up.
0:32.8	I feel like this should be on the record.
0:35.0	I know.
0:37.0	We're doing.
0:38.0	Hey, we're already in progress.
0:40.0	You're joining partial examined life episode 330 on
0:45.8	Care Guards either or already a project and we're tired,
0:49.0	god damn it and whimsical tired and we want gluten-free sweets.
0:54.5	Gluten-free sweets are boring.
0:56.3	We want things that we know can't really satisfy us on the end.
1:00.7	Yeah, no, I mean I would regret eating a gluten-free blondey right now, but I'm also
1:07.0	regretting that I don't have one. Whether we've been infected by this reading or it really does actually I in
1:18.2	Slack it sent a song that I wrote at age 18 that was very much like the overcoming and the getting really into something
1:27.0	and then getting over it that's just it's all too familiar it's just repetitive it's all
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