PEL Closereads: Emerson's Oversoul (New Podcast Premiere)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Are we underlyingly all really a single, unified organism? Or do we just have a lot in common? PEL's most verbose hosts Mark Linsenmayer and Wes Alwan begin unraveling this puzzling claim by reading Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1841 essay "The Over-Soul" and explaining it line-by-line. Watch this episode on video at YouTube. We encourage you to read along in the essay with us.
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| 0:28.0 | Hi folks, the partial exam in life is on a slight summer break. |
| 0:31.0 | So in lieu of our regular episode, we're presenting a new podcast effort that I'm doing with Wes, |
| 0:35.0 | unlike all of our other side projects. |
| 0:38.0 | You won't find it on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:40.0 | Our central hub for this new effort is patreon.com slash Close Reads Philosophy. |
| 0:46.0 | Also, note that all of these episodes will be available via video as well as audio. |
| 0:53.0 | This is Close Reads, a philosophy podcast with Mark and Wes. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm Wes all one. |
| 0:58.0 | And I'm Mark Winsomire. |
| 1:01.0 | Wes, are you me? |
| 1:03.0 | Am I you? Are we all together? |
| 1:05.0 | Was I supposed to have read this? |
| 1:07.0 | I've looked at this before. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm just asking you intuitively. Are we all one? |
| 1:12.0 | Are you and I one? |
| 1:13.0 | I would want to say no. |
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