Living Wisdom with Patrick Lee Miller

Emotion and Reality


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The Roman poet Ovid tells the story of Pygmalion, a misogynist who made a statue of his ideal woman and loved it rather than anyone with flesh and blood. But was this love or grief? Robert Solomon, an American Existentialist, gives us one theory to answer that question. 

Recommended Readings: 

Solomon, The Passions 

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Ovid, Metamorphoses

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Living Wisdom with Patrick Lee MillerBy Patrick Lee Miller