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and that's all right

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I don't know anything.

Hello, welcome to factually, I'm Adam Conover,

and we're gonna continue our little philosophy series on the show today.

If you've been listening you've heard a couple episodes we've had with some

incredible philosophers Quill Kukla incredible thinker love that, check it out if you didn't hear it.

Last week we had Susan Schneider on to talk about issues with transhumanism and mind uploading

and how we need to apply philosophy to those questions.

If you've been listening to this show,

you know that I studied philosophy a little bit myself,

and that that is what put me on the path to doing comedy

and the work I do today. You literally would not be listening to me right now if not for

philosophy. It became a really basic part of my thinking, but I also have to admit that philosophy often can feel very confined and very

distant from our own lives. You know, if you've taken a philosophy class ever in your

life, you probably know the pursuit of academic philosophy can be really

conceptual and dry. It sometimes can be hard to know why it matters, how it affects

your life. Like what are the fundamental questions of ontology, metaphysics, or epistemology have to do with even more fundamental questions like what the fuck should I wake up and do tomorrow right? Those are the things that actually concern our lives. Sometimes it feels like

philosophy doesn't have that much to say about them. But that thought is very at

odds with the origins of what we often call Western philosophy.

For instance, let's go back to ancient Greece.

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