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Martha Nussbaum on why Aristotle believed you are not made of matter.

In a 1987 interview on the Great Philosophers, philosopher Martha Nussbaum lays out Aristotle's three-part case against material reductionism, the idea that what you fundamentally are is just the stuff you're… pic.twitter.com/9LimSAx1Ic

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