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Sam Harris: We Have to Reclaim Misused Words

In case you missed it from earlier this week, author Sam Harris visited Big Think to discuss his use of the word "spirituality" and the importance of reappropriating powerful terms.

In case you missed it from earlier this week, author Sam Harris visited Big Think to discuss his use of the word “spirituality” and the importance of reappropriating powerful terms. He explained how “spooky” words like spiritualism and evil can’t just be buried once society moves past the ill-conceived ways they were once used:


“One burden I think we have is to reclaim good and powerful words no matter how they’ve been misused in the past, no matter what the inconvenient details of their etymology is.”


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