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EPISODE · Oct 13, 2016 · 42 MIN

Eternal Tales | Stanley Fish, Joanna Kavenna, Barry Smith

from Philosophy for our times | The Institute of Art and Ideas Podcast · host IAI

While the world turns we think ideas, right or wrong, are eternal. Yet meaning changes over time and context. Should we conclude that, like the material world, ideas are transient and knowledge and morality passing stories? Or is the eternal in our grasp after all? The Panel New York Times columnist and author of 'The Trouble with Principle' Stanley Fish, philosopher of language Barry C. Smith and award-winning novelist Joanna Kavenna seek out the eternal.

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