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Philosophize This!

Episode #094 ... A Look at Suffering

Philosophize This!

Stephen West

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.816.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Today we look at the concept of suffering from multiple different angles including the philosopher Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the movement in Transhumanism known as The Hedonistic Imperative.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, I'm Stephen West. This is philosophize this. Thank you so much if you're one of the people on Patreon or if you're one of the people that goes to the Amazon banner

0:08.4

I could never do this without you. I hope you love the show today

0:12.4

So

0:13.6

So if you listen to this show before you know that something that's a bit of a tagline for the show or at least

0:19.5

The kind of people that like to listen to this show is the phrase. Thank you for wanting to know more today than he did yesterday

0:26.0

Really is a neat phrase

0:28.1

To be honest, I wish I could to be honest I wish I could use it a lot more

0:32.1

Part of me is just scared that I'm going to become like a

0:35.3

Hockey radio guy and I'll start calling you guys as a philosophize this nation stuff like that

0:41.7

Point is it's a wonderful phrase right? I certainly didn't come up with it

0:45.1

In fact the origins of that phrase. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday

0:48.5

Actually, I'm with Neil deGrasse Tyson. Neil deGrasse Tyson if you don't already know is

0:53.6

An absolutely fantastic scientific educator

0:56.8

If you have Netflix. He's the guy on the cosmos series that

0:59.8

We whenever he's making some sort of deep profound point. He just kind of

1:03.6

gazes into your eyes

1:05.6

Talks to you like you just spiked your drink or something that guy

1:08.8

But the original thing that he said here's responding to somebody that was asking what advice he'd give to somebody that's young and

1:14.4

Abitious and they're trying to make waves in the world and he responded. I think quite brilliantly

1:19.1

two pieces of advice for you

1:20.9

No more today about the universe than you did yesterday and

1:24.4

Limit the suffering of others now. We've talked quite a bit about the importance of the first part of that

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