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"The unexamined life is not worth living." — Socrates
Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets.
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"The unexamined life is not worth living." — Socrates
Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets.
Philosophers have long done their best thinking when directly engaging with the outside world, not in isolation from it. Socrates roved the Athenian agora, courting trouble with the authorities. Rousseau immortalized his rambles through nature on the printed page. Nietzsche once said that only ideas conceived while walking have any value.
In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas.
Peter Singer's thoughts on the ethics of consumption are amplified against the backdrop of Fifth Avenue's posh boutiques. Michael Hardt ponders the nature of revolution while surrounded by symbols of wealth and leisure. Judith Butler and a friend stroll through San Francisco's Mission District questioning our culture's fixation on individualism.
And while driving through Manhattan, Cornel West - perhaps America's best-known public intellectual - compares philosophy to jazz and blues, reminding us how intense and invigorating a life of the mind can be.
Offering privileged moments with great thinkers from fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life reveals philosophy's power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it.
Featuring Cornel West, Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Hardt, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor.
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Poverty = lack of money/resources... redistributing money/resources to the poor would end poverty. This has nothing to do with happiness, liberty, or "the human condition". It is about raw physical resources.
I agree that just throwing money at a problem is usually not effective. However, giving resources to those that need them -- strategically -- will do much more to combat famine, poverty, and disease than just pronouncing people free. Free people die and starve all of the time. Liberty is wonderful and people should be free, but it is intangible and hasn't got too much to do with poverty. I do not think that we should just give... but other places really lack resources, infrastructure, etc.
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Right on my Bloodah. What method do you suggest?