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I'm Stephen West.

This is Philosophized This.

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Today's episode is part two on the work of Ernest Becker.

We look at his dark yet surprisingly uplifting book released after his death called Escape

from Evil.

I hope you love the show today.

So last time, we ended by talking about a key point in Becker's work.

He draws our attention to what seems to be several striking resemblances that exist

between the functions of religion and culture within society.

And it's interesting because it's not uncommon to think of these two things as completely

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