Seth Paskin
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1,271 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 21 Sep
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than any of those things in terms of the way cognition is being used.
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Well, to me, it resonates with the part of the Christian story that is the weak shall inherit the earth, the meek shall inherit the earth.
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The very part that someone like Nietzsche finds so abhorrent, which is basically people who haven't, who have the most common experience is the experience of the world running over you, whether it be other people or nature or misfortune, and that it's
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That also becomes another sign that God exists and that there is a saving grace from that.
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And maybe the extra Christian twist that he's appealing to at the beginning is the notion that we're culpable for our own misfortune in some important ways and that we can get relief from that.
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Yeah, it's the therapy or the modeling via what would Jesus do kind of thing.
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we pointed out that, you know, it goes back as far as Plato and Aristotle, but I think that it, this notion of the self being a problem and part of getting flourishing in the world is going to, it involves some right relation of the self that involves diminishing the self with respect to the world.
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It seems very, very common.
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I mean, we have Buddhism, right?
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You have the not self, right?
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And so that somehow that ourselves are,
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get in the way of having a successful flourishing of the self is I'll call it just a recognized problem.
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There are different solutions to that and different theoretical underpinnings for why it is a problem.
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But it seems very extraordinarily common, actually, that that is.
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And even in the Western tradition, stoicism is directly related to this.
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I think
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But it is, Mark's making a good distinction.
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Like in someone like Plato and Aristotle, you would recognize your thematic tendencies as just being part of who you are.
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And so there's this question of what ought to be controlling what.
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And someone like Aristotle would say, to be a full human being, you need to have this right relationship between the various parts of your soul.
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