2026-04-27
32 分钟Hello everyone, I'm Steven West.
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So there's a lot of people living in the world today that have learned to hate pieces of themselves
because of things they've accepted over the years about what it means to be a good person.
A good person, they're told, is someone who is strong and dependent.
They don't ask for exceptions to be made for them.
They stay healthy.
They show up to work every day.
And they become a rock that is a fixture in everyone's life that endlessly provides for all the people around them.
There's obviously much more to this image of a good person that most people accept.
And for the rest of the episode, let's call this image the sort of common
sense version of what a human being is supposed to be like.
Because if the job of a good philosopher is to disrupt our common sense,
then reframe something and get us to see the thing in a new, more detailed way,
then Alistair Magantire in the book we're covering today does just that when it comes to the assumptions
we make about what existing as a human being is even like.
If you've listened to the last two episodes, which I highly recommend before this one,