Ep. 71 - What Am I?
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What are we, really? We are told we are human. But what does that actually mean? It seems like such a simple question, yet philosophers have wrestled with it for centuries. This week, we dive into the existential question of what it truly means to be human and whether our understanding of ourselves has missed something important. Guided by thinkers such as Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Ernest Becker we turn especially to ecologist and philosopher David Abram and his expansion of the work of French existential philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Together, we ask not only what it means to be human, but whether we have forgotten how to be one.
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