Tonight we apply the philosopher’s thought experiment of The Ship of Theseus to the issues of meaning, and Matt tells the story of rebuilding his father’s table.

Plutarch in his Life of Theseus:
The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and strong timber in their places, insomuch that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same.

Matt’s Table - https://www.instagram.com/p/DByxMOkptd-/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
The Table of McCloskey (Substack) - https://mattmccloskey.substack.com/p/the-table-of-mccloskey?r=12nd17
Chateau de Purnon - https://www.youtube.com/c/Ch%C3%A2teaudePurnon

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Ep 220: My Father's Table (The Ship of Theseus)

We compare ourselves both to other people, and to the “inner possibilities” of the life we’re meant to live. In this episode we draw wisdom from Carl Jung and Theodore Roosevelt, and discuss social media, identity, AI, and Cain and Able.

"The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.”
—  Carl Jung

“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil.”
— Theodore Roosevelt, 1899


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Ep 255: The Conundrum of Cain

A podcast by Matt McCloskey and Michael Vaclav

New tracks tagged #cainandable