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It's the partially examined life, episode 331.

Part 3, it's just me and Wes. Hey Wes. Hey Mark. However, we're not going to close read. This is just too, too long. But we did want to cover in more detail the stages of despair how the very non serious very silly

athlete can depress his way to the place where he's ready to make the choice and I say he he's referring to a he

here is there any gender dynamic stuff is there a feminist version of kirkagard I

don't know about yeah the word he is a feminist version of Chirka-Gard I don't know about.

Yeah, the word he is a neuter word.

Yes, I guess he does give some of his examples is like the girl that has a first love.

So how far back did you want to go West to talk about this in more detail

about 184 when he started bringing him Nero or even earlier than that?

Well let's just recap a little bit earlier to join us up with the previous episodes. I think we had

ended by outlining some of the stages of the aesthetic and I had said there were

four stages. I actually think there might be more but I'll give us the four main stages. What the stages

all have in common is the estate posits this external condition as the thing

that's required for meaning of life.

It's just their life view.

So the way he'll put it, the essential qualities

that the spirit is not qualified as spirit,

but it's immediately qualified.

So in other words, it could be something like wealth or honor or even health or

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