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You're listening to the partially examined life,

a podcast by some Kaiser at one point

set on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it. Our question for episode 386 is something like,

What is Society? And we read the beginning of the Spirit section from Georg Wilhelm Friedrichs

Hegel's, the phenomenology of Spirit published in 1807. Specifically, we read sections 438 through 463.

For more information about the text and the podcast, please see Partially ExamineLife.com.

This is Mark Linson-Myer rending asunder universal being to take my share from it in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin, not yet having liberated my being from my negative unity in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes Alwin by day and unshaken, righteous self-identity by night, a fragmented being in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey, considering that as a citizen of a nation, I'm part of spirit as an actual consciousness, Madison, Wisconsin.

We have at last return to this whirlwind of a book that we've treated several years ago last.

Although I did actually, this is news to you guys probably, put Wes and I recorded a close reads on the unhappy consciousness

section.

Actually, it's going to take us about five hours to get through the whole thing of that.

But through the first couple of sections of that where we actually investigated the three

translations, I put that in the public feed.

So if people are not just ignoring everything that doesn't have a PEL next to it in the public

feed, then they will have gotten a real taste of how difficult this text is. And the beginning

of the section we assigned ourselves, which is just kind of what is spirit, we finally, halfway

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