Hello, everyone. I'm Stephen West. This is philosophized this. Thank you to everyone that supports the show on Patreon.

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I hope you love the show today. So the last couple episodes have been setting the stage for this one.

Day card. Who's by no means the only guy responsible for this, but in the sense that he's the godfather of philosophy,

proper, in the sense that, you know, so many subsequent thinkers commented on his work and responses to his work.

In the sense, high-digger thinks that he essentially just took a medieval dualistic way of looking at being through a little pizzazz on it,

added some sprinkles and called it Cartesian subjectivity. In that sense, day card is sort of the poster boy for this subject object way of looking at the world,

and all the assumptions about how to look at things in the world that come along with it. He took things off the rails, high-digger thinks.

And it eventually led to all kinds of different outcomes from thinking about ourselves as agents fundamentally separate from being,

from treating these entities within nature as merely resources at our disposal as human beings.

But one of the most important assumptions, an assumption that may not seem very sinister on the surface,

is the assumption that this realm that we all seemingly navigate is primarily just something to be known.

The world is something to be known. Our job is to look at the world, examine it, study it, and arrive at knowledge about it.

You see this way of thinking all throughout the history of science. You see the history of philosophy filled to the brim with these elaborate analytical systems produced by philosopher after philosopher trying to get to the foundation of things like what grounds knowledge, what makes knowledge possible.

How do we use the faculties of our human minds to get to this knowledge about things in the world?

And the cool thing about high-digger is that he doesn't have a problem with this whole process that people are entranced by that they'd call arriving at knowledge about being.

He certainly thinks this is one type of way that you can look at a single piece of being, but he always returns to the question, is this the totality of what being is?

Do these facts that we're arriving at answer the question, what is being?

What is being?

Hi, digger. I'm sure I've thrown that question around a lot.

And unfortunately, we can't really science away this question quite yet.

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