Episode #250 ... You Must Change Your Life. - Peter Sloterdijk
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Episode #250 ... You Must Change Your Life. - Peter Sloterdijk

B1IntermediateJuly 14, 202635 min

Today we talk about half of the book You Must Change Your Life by Peter Sloterdijk. From criticism towards views of change that he thinks are far too centered on belief and moral strength, to a reworking of how to view human beings at the level of anthropology. We talk about how our view of religion might change under this new perspective... as well as how culture should be seen as a kind of monastic rule. Hope you're having a great week and enjoy the episode. :) Sponsors: Nord VPN: https://nordvpn.com...

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is to always keep in mind as we're talking about this book, that it's doing far more than what it's

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this book is that we need to rethink what human beings even are, that we need to start thinking

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Hello, everyone. I'm Stephen West. This is Philosophize This. Patreon.com slash Philosophize This. Philosophical writing on Substack at Philosophize This on there. So I've been commissioning artists to do the cover art for these Substack articles I've been writing. Just want to support creators in any way I can afford to in this increasingly AI art world we're living in.

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It's art out there for these people. And if you're interested in doing one of the covers, please reach out to me. And if you're not sure if you want to do it, you want to see examples of it so far. I've been posting them on the show's Instagram as just sort of a celebration of human created stuff. Anyway, hope you love the show today. So the title of the book is You Must Change

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Your Life by Peter Slaughterdyke. And the one piece of advice I can give you at the start of this is to always keep in mind as we're talking about this book, that it's doing far more than what it's initially going to sound like it's trying to do. Like if I were to tell you that the premise of this book is that we need to rethink what human beings even are, that we need to start thinking

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