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@emilymbender@dair-community.social >But when I think about the concrete experience of reading, writing, and doing philosophy, I am reminded of what it is concretely to strive to live up to one another. I think of the distinct feeling of being in the thrall of another person’s mind and the rush of gratitude that they had these thoughts and wrote these words, for me now to be able to take them in. These feelings of awe and appreciation are inextricably linked to the human recognition of what it must have taken for someone to write this: what they must have done, the time they must have spent, the strain and struggle, the activities foregone, the desires deferred, the times they nearly quit, the times they did quit and came back and started again. How astonishing we really are; and how exhilarating it is to be able to recognize each other in this way. 💯