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If You Had to Pick One Word to Define Democracy, Which Would You Say?
A graduate student's dissertation on the metaphysics of words sparks a lifelong quest, challenging the very foundations of democracy and human concepts. What if our most basic ideas are broken?
If You Had to Pick One Word to Define Democracy, Which Would You Say?
This episode explores the journey of a philosopher who dedicated three decades to a single, profound question about the nature of words. It delves into the unsettling possibility that the concepts we rely on to organize our lives might be fundamentally flawed, and that we have the power to rebuild them.
Person: Herman Wright Cappelen…
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