Hello everyone, I'm Stephen West, this is Philosophies This.

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Today's episode we're going to talk about the creation of meaning,

and how not all meanings are necessarily created equal.

We'll be looking at this mostly through the example of the work of one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, Simone Davivar.

I hope you love the show today.

So if there's anything we can say with confidence about a meal Chiron so far,

it's that he was a defender of what he saw as intellectual honesty at the highest level.

He wasn't the guy to be scared of bringing up some of the darkest recesses of the human condition.

He didn't shy away from writing about his personal failures or shortcomings.

He even joked and laughed about this ridiculous plight of being a human being the entire way through his life,

and he did all of this beginning from a place where he took it as practically a self-evident fact

that there really isn't any objective meaning to anything in the universe whatsoever.

We are born, and we are quickly smacked across the face with the cold, hard reality that we are a creature

that seeks out meaning in the universe and no matter how hard we look,

no matter what method we try to utilize,

no such meaning actually exists out there in the universe to be discovered.

Now maybe you'll remember, the first episode we did on Chiron,

I said that 95% of you probably wouldn't agree with this depiction of reality.

But no doubt 5% he probably did.

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