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You're listening to the Porsche the Examined Life, a philosophy podcast by some guys who had one

point set on doing philosophy for a living, but then a better of it. A question for episode 102 is

something like, what is the relation of the individual to humanity? We'll be discussing works

from Ralph Waldo Emerson, including a speech, the American scholar from 1837, the essay's self-reliance

and circles, published in 1841. You can join the discussion, get links to the texts, and lots more

information at partiallyagdominlife.com. This is Mark Linson-Mair, transcending myself, so speak to you

from medicine, Wisconsin. This is Wes Aulin and Boston, Massachusetts. This is Dylan Casey,

reliably in a middle-ten Wisconsin. Let us read the ground rules for the first time, since we had

episode 100. The rules for our discussion include try not to assume our audience is read what we're

talking about, whereas any other background in philosophy. Number two, don't make arguments to

hinge on something other than what we've agreed to read. Don't say, you'd know what I'm talking about.

If only you'd read the Transcendental Sandwich by Kent, we do it. The title was the joke, not the...

Wait, I don't get it. The Transcendental Sandwich, that's all. It's just weird. That's the way it

used to be. It doesn't have to be an actual joke. Well, it's better if it's not held to that standard,

I think. Number three, we'll be rigorous and exact in all that we say, unless doing otherwise

would be potentially more entertaining. I believe that that latter part Emerson followed quite a lot.

In being more entertaining as opposed to being rigorous and exact. Just to throw down the first

little gauntlet there. Should we start with the text, Mark? Some ways, season... Yeah,

he sounds as if he's an enemy of rigor and exactitude, at least in certain cases. But he's a preacher.

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