Alain de Botton — A School of Life for Atheists
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Is the Human Animal a Perfection?
Frathius: There is this long tradition of deep thinking and wrestling with the complexity of the human condition. He says religions are sometimes mistaken for being very optimistic, almost naive in their belief in a next world or god's providence. If you look at religious tradition and history, there's many thinkers who are deeply clear eyed, if not very pessimistic, teir human nature.
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