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Beyond Good and Evil: Simon Critchley on Why We Need Tragedy
Today I’m speaking with Simon Critchley, philosopher and author of Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (2019) – a book that argues tragedy offers a truer philosophy than Philosophy itself, a way of thinking that begins where certainty ends. We talk about what happens when justice stands on both sides, when virtue and flaw are inseparable, and when insight comes too late for action. For Critchley, tragedy embodies a philosophy opposed to Plato’s: instead of banishing contradiction to protect reason, it lets conflict and emotion become forms of knowledge. I think this is a foundational insight: life is…
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