Episode #243 ... Hamlet - William Shakespeare

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  Hello, everyone.

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  I'm Stephen West.

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  So today we're talking about the play Hamlet by Shakespeare.

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  And this being the third episode we've done on his work,

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  I want to do something a little more inspirational this time.

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  See, usually we talk about the events of the play.

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  We give analysis from people who have dedicated their lives to Shakespeare.

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  And both those will certainly be in this episode.

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  But the thing I want to do that's a bit more today,

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  is to inspire you to read classic literature like this a bit differently.

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  I want to talk about reading this play more like a philosopher might be reading it.

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  If part of the job of a philosopher is to take concepts that seem really familiar to us,

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  something like love or justice,

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  and if part of what they do is work through them and show us a whole other side to the thing that can help us see the world in a new way,

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  well, then Hamlet is a very familiar play from classic literature, right?

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  So what

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