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You were listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who

at one point said I'm doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 157 is something like, what attitude should philosophers adopt

toward a concrete political matters?

And we read Richard Rorty's Achieving Our Country, leftist thought in 20th century

America from 1997.

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My name is Mark Linson-Mire, inspirational yet critical in medicine Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paschidden, trapped in leftist academic isolation in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes Alon rediscovering his national pride in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the last

place he'd suspect.

This is Dylan Casey avoiding my inherent sadism in middle to most

consul.

All right, we've got to be very inspirational today.

That is one of the messages of this reading.

Is that why you're changing the way you're speaking?

Is that inspirational talk?

I'm going to do it the whole the entire discussion.

So you're basically taking the mocking tone that it's exactly the opposite he argues against.

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