Ep. 341 Supplemental: Zhuangzi for Closereads Evergreen Network Launch
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Mark and Wes read through and discuss the first couple of pages of ch. 19, "Fathoming Life,"
How does Daoism compare to Stoicism, Aristotelianism, and Existentialism? How can being a Daoist sage keep one from harm? How is a really effective cicada catcher such a sage?
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| 0:00.0 | Please consider purchasing the new partially examined life book, A Breezy Read and Excellent Momento The Ideal Gift. |
| 0:06.8 | Learn more at partially examined life.com. |
| 0:09.8 | Book. Hey everybody that mysterious music tells you that something atypical is going on |
| 0:20.6 | with this week'sly examined life release? |
| 0:23.0 | Let me lay out the facts for you. |
| 0:25.0 | Partially examined life episode 341 is just a one-parter, a one-hour long thing. |
| 0:30.0 | We ask Karen, do you want to come for two hours or do you want to come for just one hour? |
| 0:34.3 | She said just one hour. |
| 0:35.8 | In that case, we typically record the second hour without the big academic guest and we did that, |
| 0:41.5 | but we did it on a different day and we wanted to talk more. a a little gap, a place for a semi-foreign element to enter the picture and add something to your |
| 0:56.3 | episode 341 experience. |
| 0:58.8 | And hey ho, we happen to be doing the worldwide public release of the Close Reads philosophy with Mark and West's |
| 1:06.2 | feed on the Evergreen Podcast Network. Close Reads was something that Wes and I created last summer |
| 1:12.0 | because we wanted to just read line by line through |
| 1:15.5 | various texts and really let you experience with us this effort to comprehend what is being |
| 1:21.9 | said. |
| 1:22.8 | We hope this will supplement the kind of thing we do in partially examined life. |
| 1:26.3 | Wes and I have been enjoying it a lot and we wanted to make this more widely available. |
| 1:30.3 | And so, hoora, we have now licensed close reads philosophy.com, so that |
| 1:35.7 | you're all should have the links to subscribe directly to that podcast on Apple |
| 1:41.5 | podcasts or Spotify or wherever you want to listen to it. |
| 1:45.2 | Right now what you're about to hear is me pulling West into this Schwangzu experience |
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