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Cornel West:
Oh, God no.
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Cornel West:
A philosopher is a lover of wisdom. It takes tremendous discipline, it takes tremendous courage to think for yourself, to examine yourself. The Socratic imperative of examining yourself requires courage. You know, William Butler Yeats used to say "it takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield." Courage to think critically,
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Cornel West:
courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher, for any human being, I think, in the end.
Oh, God no.
[...]
Cornel West:
A philosopher is a lover of wisdom. It takes tremendous discipline, it takes tremendous courage to think for yourself, to examine yourself. The Socratic imperative of examining yourself requires courage. You know, William Butler Yeats used to say "it takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield." Courage to think critically,
[...]
Cornel West:
courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher, for any human being, I think, in the end.
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[ West ]
Oh, God, no. Thank God
you don"t have to go to school.
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No. A philosopher is a lover
of wisdom.
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It takes tremendous discipline,
it takes tremendous courage...
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to think for yourself,
to examine yourself.
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The Socratic imperative of
examining yourself requires courage.
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William Butler Yeats used to say
it takes more courage...
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to examine the dark corners
of your own soul than it does
for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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Courage to think critically.
You can't talk-
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Courage is the enabling virtue
for any philosopher,
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for any human being,
I think in the end.
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Courage to think,
courage to love,
courage to hope.
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Plato says philosophy is a meditation
on and a preparation for death.
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And by death,
what he means is not an event,
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but a death in life
because there's no rebirth,
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there's no change,
there's no transformation
without death.
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And therefore, the question becomes,
how do you learn how to die?
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And of course, Montaigne talks
about that in his famous essay,
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"To Philosophize Is to Learn
How to Die."
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You can't talk about truth
without talking about learning
how to die.
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I believe that Theodor Adorno
was right when he says...
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that the condition of truth
is to allow suffering to speak.
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That gives it
an existential emphasis, you see.
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So we're really talking
about truth as a way of life...
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as opposed to simply truth
as a set of propositions...
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that correspond to a set
of things in the world.
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Human beings are unable...
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to ever gain any monopoly
on Truth, capital "T"
Clip duration: 101 seconds
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Timestamp in movie: 00h 37m 33s
Uploaded: 22 October, 2021
Genres: documentary
Summary: In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas.
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