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spoilers for the book siddhartha. edit: also posted on mit admissions i. at the beginning of my first reading and writing short stories (21w.755) lecture last semester, the professor asked the clas…
spoilers for the book siddhartha . edit: also posted on mit admissions i . at the beginning of my first reading and writing short stories (21w.755) lecture last semester, the professor asked the class if we knew what the hegelian dialectic was. he got back a wide variety of responses: one student said it documented the relationship between masters and slaves; someone else said it was about the id, ego, and superego; another person said it modeled election cycles and political movements; and so on it turns out the answer he was looking for was much simpler – he just wanted to talk about t
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