Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedKwame Anthony Appiah: belief
31 Jul 2019 Conversations with Tyler Kwame Anthony Appiah on Pictures of the World
“I learned that it is possible to be a happy creature that doesn’t know about Donald Trump and doesn’t worry about the fate of the world.”
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- Speaker
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 31 Jul 2019
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…What do you learn from having a sheep farm in New Jersey? I learned that it is possible to be a happy creature that doesn’t know about Donald Trump and doesn’t worry about the fate of the world. My sheep are . . . We feed them properly, and they have access to water, and they can run around, and there are no big dogs to scare them, or wolves or anything like that. No predators. Their lives seem happy, and when I’m visiting them, I’m reminded of the possibility of a kind of untroubled existence. Do you think it helps your work to have two very distinct physical habitats to do things in?…
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