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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Episode 171: Buddhism vs. Evolution with Guest Robert Wright (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Bob joins the PEL four to discuss his new book Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment.

Bob applies his expertise in evolutionary psychology to corroborate Buddhism's claims that we are deluded: about our desires, emotions, the unity of our selves, and the "essences" we project on things and people. And he thinks meditation can instill in the diligent the ability to see things more clearly. But does it really?

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You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who were at one

0:50.0

point said on doing philosophy for living, but then thought better of it. Our question

0:54.0

for episode 171 is something like, what illusions does evolution program us to buy into and

1:01.0

can these be overcome? And we read why Buddhism is true, a brand new book by Robert Wright.

1:07.7

For more information, please check out partiallyexamonlife.com. This is Mark Linton-Wire meditating

1:13.2

on what I imagine my three days dead corpse will look like in medicine, Wisconsin.

1:18.0

This is Seth Pascon and my CEO is MIA in Austin, Texas.

1:24.6

This is Wes Owen in Cambridge, Massachusetts or is Cambridge in me. This is Dylan Casey

1:30.2

working on living in the less conditioned life in middle-ten Wisconsin.

1:35.4

And I'm Robert Wright. I wrote the aforementioned book and I am honored to be on this podcast

1:40.9

of which I am a fan. Welcome. Thank you very much. I'm really happy

1:45.4

to be here. I feel like somebody's taking me seriously if I'm on this podcast.

1:49.9

Then we've done something terribly wrong for the last nine years. We have long been in

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