Jacob Howland
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Podcast Appearances
to come to understand what the question really is can reorient you and can again reveal, I'll just use the same phrase, depths of meaning in your own existence that you simply weren't attending to.
to come to understand what the question really is can reorient you and can again reveal, I'll just use the same phrase, depths of meaning in your own existence that you simply weren't attending to.
Right, right. Way out beyond the wilderness, right?
Right, right. Way out beyond the wilderness, right?
Right, right. Way out beyond the wilderness, right?
And this, well, and so this relates to Socrates saying, you know, wonder is the beginning of philosophy. There's a, there's a... So let's go back. I agree. Happiness not only is not the proper aim. In Vasily Grossman's wonderful book, Life and Fate, there's a little chapter where this guy has written a little letter in the Gulag.
And this, well, and so this relates to Socrates saying, you know, wonder is the beginning of philosophy. There's a, there's a... So let's go back. I agree. Happiness not only is not the proper aim. In Vasily Grossman's wonderful book, Life and Fate, there's a little chapter where this guy has written a little letter in the Gulag.
And this, well, and so this relates to Socrates saying, you know, wonder is the beginning of philosophy. There's a, there's a... So let's go back. I agree. Happiness not only is not the proper aim. In Vasily Grossman's wonderful book, Life and Fate, there's a little chapter where this guy has written a little letter in the Gulag.
And he says something like, happiness with a capital H has been the cause of the greatest evil in the world. And I think this is right. And you read it elsewhere. You read it in the Deshna Mambulstam's book, Hope Against Hope. In the name of happiness, the greatest evil was committed.
And he says something like, happiness with a capital H has been the cause of the greatest evil in the world. And I think this is right. And you read it elsewhere. You read it in the Deshna Mambulstam's book, Hope Against Hope. In the name of happiness, the greatest evil was committed.
And he says something like, happiness with a capital H has been the cause of the greatest evil in the world. And I think this is right. And you read it elsewhere. You read it in the Deshna Mambulstam's book, Hope Against Hope. In the name of happiness, the greatest evil was committed.
Right. Right.
Right. Right.
Right. Right.
So... I imagine you would agree with this, but I propose that what is far more important is meaning. And meaning is... The deepest and richest things are the most meaningful and the highest things.
So... I imagine you would agree with this, but I propose that what is far more important is meaning. And meaning is... The deepest and richest things are the most meaningful and the highest things.
So... I imagine you would agree with this, but I propose that what is far more important is meaning. And meaning is... The deepest and richest things are the most meaningful and the highest things.
That's like the well that will never run dry. Inexhaustible. And so in human life...
That's like the well that will never run dry. Inexhaustible. And so in human life...
That's like the well that will never run dry. Inexhaustible. And so in human life...