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The Pursuit of Ignorance? A Conversation with Author Mark Lilla on His Book – Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know

By Filings on Wed, 03/19/25
Bible, Theology & Philosophy
Human Nature
Ignorance
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“I try to suggest in the book that the struggle between wanting to know, curiosity, and wanting not to know, which is a resistance to knowledge, that those two forces are present in our minds all the time.” - L&L

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