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would never talk about in the ways; it always involved putting you inspires others … to do something
university context; it’s beyond the out of your comfort zone … that small … but I don’t think we should
surface level.” He continues, “I academics from different disciplines expect to be able to deal with all of
wonder how many people would could come together, out of their society’s problems by, for example,
have heard of Pierre Hadot’s … comfort zones … this is really engaging in a beach clean-up, or
work on the notion of philosophy as unique, something beautiful, going on a pilgrimage. It doesn’t
a way of life … it stands in strong something that can be learned from mean that we shouldn’t do those
contrast to philosophy as an in different parts of the university … things. Some people are very
academic … discipline … Part of I would also like to add that on two optimistic that we can rise to the
what Hadot writes about is ‘cosmic of the events, we picked up litter for challenges, collectively as a species
consciousness’ and he emphasises beach clean-ups, one was for … but if you hope for a positive
that the ancient Greeks and international beach clean up day, outcome in those bigger contexts
Hellenes used to endeavour to and for the most recent event we and you don’t see one, you can get
resonate with the cycles, patterns also attended the international very demotivated, so my hope is
and processes of nature. It involved climate strike … the value of picking that people do things because it is
meditation, it involved being up litter on a beach is immeasurable inherently valuable, and if it is
austere; sometimes it involved not just for yourself, but for the instrumentally valuable, then that’s
speaking to people in different people you are doing it with. It the cherry on the top.”
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