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I learned many things sitting and listening to Mukul Kesavan.
I felt and thought about many things as I sat and read Arendt today. Different ways in which the mind is trained to understand its experience.
Learned something from André Beteille, who says that to be a committed intellectual is to believe in the power of ideas, and more importantly to be willing to commit to actions which will eventually help in make sense of what we do and why we do it. Instead of the 'self-absorption' his essays on the academia are an invitation to think about how we can engage with the 'whole experience' of the world and see it through our idea, not from a distance but from a refinement. He's calling for academics to almost de-psychologise their feelings about their work and commit to the ideas as something more than just thought-things.