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🗓️ 13 December 2021
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Continuing on "What Is Love?" (1992). We consider B's account of love as resolution of a paradox: The positions of man and woman in no way overlap, yet all truth is generic, i.e. accessible to everyone. Love makes it happen!
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0:28.7 | Hey, this is the partially examined life episode 283, Ellen Bedu on Love, discussing the |
0:35.7 | essay What Is Love. |
0:37.2 | So I'm keeping track of what we've covered. |
0:40.0 | And I think we've pretty much covered everything up through section 4 conditions for the existence |
0:45.5 | of humanity, which is where we left off with the truth procedures and the humanity function |
0:50.6 | and the fact that all truths are valid for all X's, right, all human beings. |
0:56.9 | And that truth is the only thing that is transpositional. |
0:59.8 | So right, despite the fact that we have these radically disjunct experiences between the |
1:06.4 | two positions, men and women, we have a something that is universal for everyone. |
1:11.8 | Truth. |
1:12.8 | I'd say we should start with section 5. |
1:14.5 | Love is the treatment of a paradox because that's where he's going to say, hey, how do |
1:19.0 | we reconcile truth as transpositional when the experience is a men and women are radically |
1:26.2 | disjunct and then he's going to tell us how in very clear language to do that. |
1:31.8 | Can we repeat? |
1:33.6 | Because I don't remember exactly the difference between truth and knowledge, though, because |
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