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You hold the stairwell banister as four bullets end his certainty
A student in a Vienna stairwell shoots his former teacher-what happens when a philosopher who demanded verifiable truth faces violence and ideas?
You hold the stairwell banister as four bullets end his certainty
In this episode, we trace the morning a physicist-turned-philosopher was shot on the main staircase of the University of Vienna and the intellectual life that led up to that moment. We outline his upbringing, his move from physics to philosophy, the founding of the Vienna Circle, and the question his death forces about when ideas become dangerous. What would you do when your thinking…
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