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Conversations on humans' pursuit of meaning, through the consideration of four broad archetypal categories: Warrior (encountering/overcoming hardships), Poet (recognizing, giving appropriate due to wonder and beauty), Hero (dealing with the questions of finitude and death), and Sage (the pursuit of useful wisdom, rather than simply the accumulation of knowledge).
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Friday Jan 31, 2020
The Stag Room: Episode One Full Episode Part Two
Friday Jan 31, 2020
Friday Jan 31, 2020
In part two of our introductory episode, we discuss the "Hero" and "Sage" archetypes, as we intend to define and discuss them. The idea of the “Sage” is that knowledge is important in certain ways, but ultimately it is the ability to make wise use of what we know that is actually desired when pursuing meaning.
The “hero” archetype encapsulates and permeates the entire life project of reaching for and creating a meaningful life; it relates to the ways in which we face our finite time in life. It speaks to what we do with the question “How to face death”? Time is our most precious resource, and facing our demise, and that of the ones we love, gives rise to all sorts of psychological difficulties. How to deal with this?
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