2024-09-13
38 分钟Hello, everyone.
I'm Steven West.
This is Philosophize This.
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So I want to tell you about a book today called The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by the philosopher Paulo Freire.
Pedagogy, as a word means we're talking about education and teaching.
Oppressed as a word meaning, well, we'll get into that.
But I feel the need to stay here at the start.
The people write to me sometimes and say part of what I want when I listen to a podcast like this, Steven West,
is if there's a work of philosophy that's so influential it could get brought up by people that aren't even really that into philosophy,
then that's something I want covered on the show.
I want it broken down in a way where I could explain it to someone at a party and I won't be the person that people slowly inch away from.
Say, hmm, interesting.
And then they never talk to me again at the party.
I don't want to just explain my philosophy to my stuffed animals for the rest of my life.
Well, I heard your request, folks out there, and I did one thing right today, I think.
This book we're talking about, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, is by one measurement that was taken,