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jdib3d | askphilosophy_train | 9.484848 | [
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"content": "Great question! I'm a psychotherapist, so I am involved in the on-the-ground empirical work around this matter. Your question is one that I've heard a number of patients voice over the years. These \"two responses\" you talk about (personal growth vs. embittered / traumatized) are not mutually ... | true | [
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"content": "In literature, suffering is often something that provokes personal growth. However, suffering also often seems to embitter or traumatize people. What is the deciding factor between these two responses? Nietzsche expresses the former idea well: \\`\\`That which does not kill me makes me stronger'' ... | |
mwri70 | askphilosophy_train | 2.684211 | [
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"content": "A little practical philosophy for you: You don't hate work, you hate your job. I work at a shoe repair shop with some like minded left-wing cobblers and we've structured our business so that we all work as little as possible and when we do work we're super efficient. We all get paid the same and v... | true | [
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"content": "Any philosophers who are negative about work? I hate work. Always have. I find it, frankly, tyrannical. Forced to wake before I'm ready; forced to rush when I just want to sit and enjoy a coffee; forced to sit when all I want is to walk; forced to be inside when I want to be in the sunshine; force... | |
mwri70 | askphilosophy_train | 3.4 | [
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"content": "Hey, my fiance is writing a book on this topic! She is looking at different types of work ethic throughout philosophical history and proposing her own version of a new post-work ethic. Something like that--I won't really read it until she has at least a couple hundred pages done. Work ethics and ... | false | [
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"content": "Any philosophers who are negative about work? I hate work. Always have. I find it, frankly, tyrannical. Forced to wake before I'm ready; forced to rush when I just want to sit and enjoy a coffee; forced to sit when all I want is to walk; forced to be inside when I want to be in the sunshine; force... | |
mwri70 | askphilosophy_train | 3.642857 | [
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"content": "A little practical philosophy for you: You don't hate work, you hate your job. I work at a shoe repair shop with some like minded left-wing cobblers and we've structured our business so that we all work as little as possible and when we do work we're super efficient. We all get paid the same and v... | true | [
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"content": "Any philosophers who are negative about work? I hate work. Always have. I find it, frankly, tyrannical. Forced to wake before I'm ready; forced to rush when I just want to sit and enjoy a coffee; forced to sit when all I want is to walk; forced to be inside when I want to be in the sunshine; force... | |
mwri70 | askphilosophy_train | 4.25 | [
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"content": "A little practical philosophy for you: You don't hate work, you hate your job. I work at a shoe repair shop with some like minded left-wing cobblers and we've structured our business so that we all work as little as possible and when we do work we're super efficient. We all get paid the same and v... | true | [
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"content": "Any philosophers who are negative about work? I hate work. Always have. I find it, frankly, tyrannical. Forced to wake before I'm ready; forced to rush when I just want to sit and enjoy a coffee; forced to sit when all I want is to walk; forced to be inside when I want to be in the sunshine; force... | |
mwri70 | askphilosophy_train | 10.2 | [
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"content": "A little practical philosophy for you: You don't hate work, you hate your job. I work at a shoe repair shop with some like minded left-wing cobblers and we've structured our business so that we all work as little as possible and when we do work we're super efficient. We all get paid the same and v... | true | [
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"content": "Any philosophers who are negative about work? I hate work. Always have. I find it, frankly, tyrannical. Forced to wake before I'm ready; forced to rush when I just want to sit and enjoy a coffee; forced to sit when all I want is to walk; forced to be inside when I want to be in the sunshine; force... | |
mwri70 | askphilosophy_train | 8.5 | [
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"content": "A little practical philosophy for you: You don't hate work, you hate your job. I work at a shoe repair shop with some like minded left-wing cobblers and we've structured our business so that we all work as little as possible and when we do work we're super efficient. We all get paid the same and v... | true | [
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"content": "Any philosophers who are negative about work? I hate work. Always have. I find it, frankly, tyrannical. Forced to wake before I'm ready; forced to rush when I just want to sit and enjoy a coffee; forced to sit when all I want is to walk; forced to be inside when I want to be in the sunshine; force... | |
mwri70 | askphilosophy_train | 8.5 | [
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"content": "A little practical philosophy for you: You don't hate work, you hate your job. I work at a shoe repair shop with some like minded left-wing cobblers and we've structured our business so that we all work as little as possible and when we do work we're super efficient. We all get paid the same and v... | true | [
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"content": "Any philosophers who are negative about work? I hate work. Always have. I find it, frankly, tyrannical. Forced to wake before I'm ready; forced to rush when I just want to sit and enjoy a coffee; forced to sit when all I want is to walk; forced to be inside when I want to be in the sunshine; force... | |
mwri70 | askphilosophy_train | 12.75 | [
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"content": "Two of the best books I have read on the topic of work are *Works and Days* by Hesiod (circa 700 BC) and *Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do* by Studs Terkel. (1974) These are not philosophical works per se, but the two of them together present a... | false | [
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"content": "Any philosophers who are negative about work? I hate work. Always have. I find it, frankly, tyrannical. Forced to wake before I'm ready; forced to rush when I just want to sit and enjoy a coffee; forced to sit when all I want is to walk; forced to be inside when I want to be in the sunshine; force... | |
mwri70 | askphilosophy_train | 2.210526 | [
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"content": "Not a philosopher, but Bullshit Jobs by the late anthropologist David Graeber. ​ I'm also curious if you've watched Office Space? It comes to a very similar conclusion of Graeber and what some of the other commenters in this thread have mentioned which is that your issue is about work wit... | true | [
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"content": "Any philosophers who are negative about work? I hate work. Always have. I find it, frankly, tyrannical. Forced to wake before I'm ready; forced to rush when I just want to sit and enjoy a coffee; forced to sit when all I want is to walk; forced to be inside when I want to be in the sunshine; force... | |
mwri70 | askphilosophy_train | 2.8 | [
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"content": "Not a philosopher, but Bullshit Jobs by the late anthropologist David Graeber. ​ I'm also curious if you've watched Office Space? It comes to a very similar conclusion of Graeber and what some of the other commenters in this thread have mentioned which is that your issue is about work wit... | true | [
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"content": "Any philosophers who are negative about work? I hate work. Always have. I find it, frankly, tyrannical. Forced to wake before I'm ready; forced to rush when I just want to sit and enjoy a coffee; forced to sit when all I want is to walk; forced to be inside when I want to be in the sunshine; force... | |
mwri70 | askphilosophy_train | 3 | [
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"content": "Not a philosopher, but Bullshit Jobs by the late anthropologist David Graeber. ​ I'm also curious if you've watched Office Space? It comes to a very similar conclusion of Graeber and what some of the other commenters in this thread have mentioned which is that your issue is about work wit... | true | [
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"content": "Any philosophers who are negative about work? I hate work. Always have. I find it, frankly, tyrannical. Forced to wake before I'm ready; forced to rush when I just want to sit and enjoy a coffee; forced to sit when all I want is to walk; forced to be inside when I want to be in the sunshine; force... | |
mwri70 | askphilosophy_train | 3.5 | [
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"content": "Not a philosopher, but Bullshit Jobs by the late anthropologist David Graeber. ​ I'm also curious if you've watched Office Space? It comes to a very similar conclusion of Graeber and what some of the other commenters in this thread have mentioned which is that your issue is about work wit... | true | [
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"content": "Any philosophers who are negative about work? I hate work. Always have. I find it, frankly, tyrannical. Forced to wake before I'm ready; forced to rush when I just want to sit and enjoy a coffee; forced to sit when all I want is to walk; forced to be inside when I want to be in the sunshine; force... | |
mwri70 | askphilosophy_train | 8.4 | [
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"content": "Not a philosopher, but Bullshit Jobs by the late anthropologist David Graeber. ​ I'm also curious if you've watched Office Space? It comes to a very similar conclusion of Graeber and what some of the other commenters in this thread have mentioned which is that your issue is about work wit... | true | [
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"content": "Any philosophers who are negative about work? I hate work. Always have. I find it, frankly, tyrannical. Forced to wake before I'm ready; forced to rush when I just want to sit and enjoy a coffee; forced to sit when all I want is to walk; forced to be inside when I want to be in the sunshine; force... | |
mwri70 | askphilosophy_train | 7 | [
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"content": "Not a philosopher, but Bullshit Jobs by the late anthropologist David Graeber. ​ I'm also curious if you've watched Office Space? It comes to a very similar conclusion of Graeber and what some of the other commenters in this thread have mentioned which is that your issue is about work wit... | true | [
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"content": "Any philosophers who are negative about work? I hate work. Always have. I find it, frankly, tyrannical. Forced to wake before I'm ready; forced to rush when I just want to sit and enjoy a coffee; forced to sit when all I want is to walk; forced to be inside when I want to be in the sunshine; force... | |
mwri70 | askphilosophy_train | 14 | [
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"content": "Not a philosopher, but Bullshit Jobs by the late anthropologist David Graeber. ​ I'm also curious if you've watched Office Space? It comes to a very similar conclusion of Graeber and what some of the other commenters in this thread have mentioned which is that your issue is about work wit... | true | [
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"content": "Any philosophers who are negative about work? I hate work. Always have. I find it, frankly, tyrannical. Forced to wake before I'm ready; forced to rush when I just want to sit and enjoy a coffee; forced to sit when all I want is to walk; forced to be inside when I want to be in the sunshine; force... | |
mwri70 | askphilosophy_train | 1.666667 | [
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"content": "A good place to start might be Martin Hagglund's recent book, *This Life*. A fair amount of it is focused on a particular argument about religious thought--but he's also broadly interested in the question of how we should value our time, and why we currently seem to value labor time over free time... | false | [
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"content": "Any philosophers who are negative about work? I hate work. Always have. I find it, frankly, tyrannical. Forced to wake before I'm ready; forced to rush when I just want to sit and enjoy a coffee; forced to sit when all I want is to walk; forced to be inside when I want to be in the sunshine; force... | |
mwri70 | askphilosophy_train | 1.5 | [
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"content": "I recommend reading Bob Black's **The Abolition of Work** which, simplified, suggest a new approach to work more geared towards play and enjoyment rather than forced labour. The separation of work and leisure is a very sick notion and one that reveals the lack of human freedom. **Kropotkin** is... | true | [
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"content": "Any philosophers who are negative about work? I hate work. Always have. I find it, frankly, tyrannical. Forced to wake before I'm ready; forced to rush when I just want to sit and enjoy a coffee; forced to sit when all I want is to walk; forced to be inside when I want to be in the sunshine; force... | |
mwri70 | askphilosophy_train | 2 | [
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"content": "A good place to start might be Martin Hagglund's recent book, *This Life*. A fair amount of it is focused on a particular argument about religious thought--but he's also broadly interested in the question of how we should value our time, and why we currently seem to value labor time over free time... | false | [
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"content": "Any philosophers who are negative about work? I hate work. Always have. I find it, frankly, tyrannical. Forced to wake before I'm ready; forced to rush when I just want to sit and enjoy a coffee; forced to sit when all I want is to walk; forced to be inside when I want to be in the sunshine; force... | |
mwri70 | askphilosophy_train | 2 | [
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"content": "A good place to start might be Martin Hagglund's recent book, *This Life*. A fair amount of it is focused on a particular argument about religious thought--but he's also broadly interested in the question of how we should value our time, and why we currently seem to value labor time over free time... | false | [
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"content": "Any philosophers who are negative about work? I hate work. Always have. I find it, frankly, tyrannical. Forced to wake before I'm ready; forced to rush when I just want to sit and enjoy a coffee; forced to sit when all I want is to walk; forced to be inside when I want to be in the sunshine; force... | |
hqk1q0 | askphilosophy_train | 1.647059 | [
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"content": "This sounds like a job for https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-social/",
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"content": "How can I ever be confident in my beliefs if there is an infinite amount of thinking, research, and discussion that I have not experienced that would potentially change my opinion? Also, how can I even be doubtful of my beliefs if this applies to everyone else too?",
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hqk1q0 | askphilosophy_train | 4 | [
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"content": "This sounds like a job for https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-social/",
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"content": "How can I ever be confident in my beliefs if there is an infinite amount of thinking, research, and discussion that I have not experienced that would potentially change my opinion? Also, how can I even be doubtful of my beliefs if this applies to everyone else too?",
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hqk1q0 | askphilosophy_train | 1.75 | [
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"content": "I think you're getting a lot of answers that aren't really very helpful, at least in terms of getting at what seems to me to be an existential anxiety regarding human limitations of knowing. Being confident that you've employed the right philosophical heuristics, the ones described by smart peop... | false | [
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"content": "How can I ever be confident in my beliefs if there is an infinite amount of thinking, research, and discussion that I have not experienced that would potentially change my opinion? Also, how can I even be doubtful of my beliefs if this applies to everyone else too?",
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hqk1q0 | askphilosophy_train | 3.5 | [
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"content": "Inform yourself about every issue instead of following an ideology and check both sides before making a choice for your opinion. It may seem like there is an infinite amount of thinking but in practice, when you are outside of the academic world, the amount of arguments tends to reach a plateau, w... | false | [
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"content": "How can I ever be confident in my beliefs if there is an infinite amount of thinking, research, and discussion that I have not experienced that would potentially change my opinion? Also, how can I even be doubtful of my beliefs if this applies to everyone else too?",
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hqk1q0 | askphilosophy_train | 3.5 | [
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"content": "There may be more possible evidence than you could ever feasibly attain, but it isn't true that for any given belief, it's always possible that some future evidence could overturn it. For example, things going on in other times and places may be inaccessible to you, but those events also have no b... | false | [
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"content": "How can I ever be confident in my beliefs if there is an infinite amount of thinking, research, and discussion that I have not experienced that would potentially change my opinion? Also, how can I even be doubtful of my beliefs if this applies to everyone else too?",
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hqk1q0 | askphilosophy_train | 3.5 | [
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"content": "I struggled so much with this question between the ages of 17 and 20, when I studied philosophy compulsively. A graduate student gave me excellent advice about it. He said that if you continue to study philosophy, at a certain point you reach a \"philosophical fluency\". That is to say, you get a ... | true | [
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"content": "How can I ever be confident in my beliefs if there is an infinite amount of thinking, research, and discussion that I have not experienced that would potentially change my opinion? Also, how can I even be doubtful of my beliefs if this applies to everyone else too?",
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hqk1q0 | askphilosophy_train | 2 | [
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"content": "I think you're getting a lot of answers that aren't really very helpful, at least in terms of getting at what seems to me to be an existential anxiety regarding human limitations of knowing. Being confident that you've employed the right philosophical heuristics, the ones described by smart peop... | true | [
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"content": "How can I ever be confident in my beliefs if there is an infinite amount of thinking, research, and discussion that I have not experienced that would potentially change my opinion? Also, how can I even be doubtful of my beliefs if this applies to everyone else too?",
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hqk1q0 | askphilosophy_train | 2 | [
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"content": "There may be more possible evidence than you could ever feasibly attain, but it isn't true that for any given belief, it's always possible that some future evidence could overturn it. For example, things going on in other times and places may be inaccessible to you, but those events also have no b... | false | [
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"content": "How can I ever be confident in my beliefs if there is an infinite amount of thinking, research, and discussion that I have not experienced that would potentially change my opinion? Also, how can I even be doubtful of my beliefs if this applies to everyone else too?",
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hqk1q0 | askphilosophy_train | 2 | [
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"content": "I think you're getting a lot of answers that aren't really very helpful, at least in terms of getting at what seems to me to be an existential anxiety regarding human limitations of knowing. Being confident that you've employed the right philosophical heuristics, the ones described by smart peop... | true | [
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"content": "How can I ever be confident in my beliefs if there is an infinite amount of thinking, research, and discussion that I have not experienced that would potentially change my opinion? Also, how can I even be doubtful of my beliefs if this applies to everyone else too?",
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o1bt7n | askphilosophy_train | 1.8 | [
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"content": "Hahaha I like the way you write! I think what is to be said on Hegel has already been said in this comment section. But I'll add my two cents. You don't have to \"get\" Hegel to \"do\" Hegel. Nobody knows for sure what Hegel thought, we can't sit him down, and many Hegelian have vastly different ... | true | [
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"content": "Is it possible to understand Hegel without having a (few) PhD(s) and/or an 8-dimensional alien brain? I'm just an engineer but I fell in with a bad sort (philosophers) and they introduced me to lots of different philosophical things. Hegel is something they talk about but they do it much in the sa... | |
o1bt7n | askphilosophy_train | 1.5 | [
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"content": "There is a really helpful companion book to The Phenomenology, it is titled Genesis and Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. I am a philosophy student and could not understand the phenomenology at all, despite my great desire. Hyppolite's book really helps get a grounding on the language ... | false | [
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"content": "Is it possible to understand Hegel without having a (few) PhD(s) and/or an 8-dimensional alien brain? I'm just an engineer but I fell in with a bad sort (philosophers) and they introduced me to lots of different philosophical things. Hegel is something they talk about but they do it much in the sa... | |
o1bt7n | askphilosophy_train | 1.5 | [
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"content": "When I was at UIUC back in the 60s, the wisdom (passed around among those I hung out with) was that in order to get Nietzsche you had to dive deep into Hegel, and that in order to get Hegel you had to dive deep into Fichte. Kant was pooh-poohed with comments like \"today's a priori is just yesterd... | true | [
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"content": "Is it possible to understand Hegel without having a (few) PhD(s) and/or an 8-dimensional alien brain? I'm just an engineer but I fell in with a bad sort (philosophers) and they introduced me to lots of different philosophical things. Hegel is something they talk about but they do it much in the sa... | |
tdyqvx | askphilosophy_train | 1.636364 | [
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"content": "Philosophy helps you understand the multiple shapes and ways with which the reality unfolds. You see, also in my brief and vague definition, you could literally nitpick every word and ask me \"why help? Why shapes? Why does reality utilize something?\" And you could be probably right about a lot o... | false | [
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"content": "How do you avoid allowing philosophy to paralyze your ability to say anything about anything? My initial goal in studying philosophy was to clarify and edify my thoughts and beliefs. I wanted to open my mind to new ideas and be able to articulate those ideas effectively to others. But ive found... | |
tdyqvx | askphilosophy_train | 2.432432 | [
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"content": "Keep reading! The first thing philosophy often does is strip you of your preconceived notions. Or, maybe, you'll end up a skeptic. Pyrrhonists don't believe that any knowledge is possible and that eudaimonia (enlightenment, more or less) is only possible through suspending all judgement on all thi... | false | [
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"content": "How do you avoid allowing philosophy to paralyze your ability to say anything about anything? My initial goal in studying philosophy was to clarify and edify my thoughts and beliefs. I wanted to open my mind to new ideas and be able to articulate those ideas effectively to others. But ive found... | |
tdyqvx | askphilosophy_train | 4.5 | [
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"content": "Why wish to be otherwise? There are plenty of know-nothings who are perfectly certain they are right with utmost confidence. And I see no reason to want to be like them. How about instead of trying to express yourself confidently in the world, you do your best to express yourself competently. Ma... | false | [
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"content": "How do you avoid allowing philosophy to paralyze your ability to say anything about anything? My initial goal in studying philosophy was to clarify and edify my thoughts and beliefs. I wanted to open my mind to new ideas and be able to articulate those ideas effectively to others. But ive found... | |
tdyqvx | askphilosophy_train | 12.857143 | [
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"content": "Research the idea of “philosophy as therapy”. There’s an entire tradition of philosophers who have addressed exactly what you describe. There are a couple of helpful books and papers too. They’re all influenced by the way Wittgenstein did philosophy. It might be helpful to study modal philosophy f... | true | [
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"content": "How do you avoid allowing philosophy to paralyze your ability to say anything about anything? My initial goal in studying philosophy was to clarify and edify my thoughts and beliefs. I wanted to open my mind to new ideas and be able to articulate those ideas effectively to others. But ive found... | |
tdyqvx | askphilosophy_train | 1.896552 | [
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"content": "I think, early on into studying philosophy, it's pretty common to feel overwhelmed by the sheer size of philosophy and the wide diversity of views within it that, yes, one could feel paralyzed by it. The solution I've seen is to just keep learning. I don't think it was until, like, well into my ... | false | [
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"content": "How do you avoid allowing philosophy to paralyze your ability to say anything about anything? My initial goal in studying philosophy was to clarify and edify my thoughts and beliefs. I wanted to open my mind to new ideas and be able to articulate those ideas effectively to others. But ive found... | |
tdyqvx | askphilosophy_train | 2.75 | [
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"content": ">I also have a hard time making claims or stating what I **personally believe** to others, because I feel disingenuous or close-minded in doing so, knowing that there are **plenty of credible arguments against what i am saying**. That's pretty much where you want to be, at least as a starting pos... | true | [
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"content": "How do you avoid allowing philosophy to paralyze your ability to say anything about anything? My initial goal in studying philosophy was to clarify and edify my thoughts and beliefs. I wanted to open my mind to new ideas and be able to articulate those ideas effectively to others. But ive found... | |
tdyqvx | askphilosophy_train | 7.857143 | [
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"content": "You are simply describing the acceptance of reality as multifarious and complex, via your pursuit of philosophy, though you could have acquired the same “dilemma” by other means of investigation into “the way things are,” because reality is in fact complex. Philosophy for Socrates was important s... | false | [
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"content": "How do you avoid allowing philosophy to paralyze your ability to say anything about anything? My initial goal in studying philosophy was to clarify and edify my thoughts and beliefs. I wanted to open my mind to new ideas and be able to articulate those ideas effectively to others. But ive found... | |
tdyqvx | askphilosophy_train | 2.75 | [
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"content": "Philosophy helps you understand the multiple shapes and ways with which the reality unfolds. You see, also in my brief and vague definition, you could literally nitpick every word and ask me \"why help? Why shapes? Why does reality utilize something?\" And you could be probably right about a lot o... | true | [
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"content": "How do you avoid allowing philosophy to paralyze your ability to say anything about anything? My initial goal in studying philosophy was to clarify and edify my thoughts and beliefs. I wanted to open my mind to new ideas and be able to articulate those ideas effectively to others. But ive found... | |
tdyqvx | askphilosophy_train | 7.857143 | [
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"content": "You are simply describing the acceptance of reality as multifarious and complex, via your pursuit of philosophy, though you could have acquired the same “dilemma” by other means of investigation into “the way things are,” because reality is in fact complex. Philosophy for Socrates was important s... | false | [
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"content": "How do you avoid allowing philosophy to paralyze your ability to say anything about anything? My initial goal in studying philosophy was to clarify and edify my thoughts and beliefs. I wanted to open my mind to new ideas and be able to articulate those ideas effectively to others. But ive found... | |
tdyqvx | askphilosophy_train | 5.285714 | [
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"content": "You are simply describing the acceptance of reality as multifarious and complex, via your pursuit of philosophy, though you could have acquired the same “dilemma” by other means of investigation into “the way things are,” because reality is in fact complex. Philosophy for Socrates was important s... | false | [
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"content": "How do you avoid allowing philosophy to paralyze your ability to say anything about anything? My initial goal in studying philosophy was to clarify and edify my thoughts and beliefs. I wanted to open my mind to new ideas and be able to articulate those ideas effectively to others. But ive found... | |
tdyqvx | askphilosophy_train | 4.142857 | [
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"content": "I think, early on into studying philosophy, it's pretty common to feel overwhelmed by the sheer size of philosophy and the wide diversity of views within it that, yes, one could feel paralyzed by it. The solution I've seen is to just keep learning. I don't think it was until, like, well into my ... | true | [
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"content": "How do you avoid allowing philosophy to paralyze your ability to say anything about anything? My initial goal in studying philosophy was to clarify and edify my thoughts and beliefs. I wanted to open my mind to new ideas and be able to articulate those ideas effectively to others. But ive found... | |
tdyqvx | askphilosophy_train | 2.857143 | [
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"content": "Why wish to be otherwise? There are plenty of know-nothings who are perfectly certain they are right with utmost confidence. And I see no reason to want to be like them. How about instead of trying to express yourself confidently in the world, you do your best to express yourself competently. Ma... | true | [
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"content": "How do you avoid allowing philosophy to paralyze your ability to say anything about anything? My initial goal in studying philosophy was to clarify and edify my thoughts and beliefs. I wanted to open my mind to new ideas and be able to articulate those ideas effectively to others. But ive found... | |
tdyqvx | askphilosophy_train | 1.5 | [
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"content": "Questioning yourself when you read contradictory stuff to your own beliefs, is a very good thing!! I never really paid attention to how I explained to people my way of thinking or philosophical subjects . Without really paying attention to my delivery, I believe that making a short and course su... | true | [
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"content": "How do you avoid allowing philosophy to paralyze your ability to say anything about anything? My initial goal in studying philosophy was to clarify and edify my thoughts and beliefs. I wanted to open my mind to new ideas and be able to articulate those ideas effectively to others. But ive found... | |
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"content": "Questioning yourself when you read contradictory stuff to your own beliefs, is a very good thing!! I never really paid attention to how I explained to people my way of thinking or philosophical subjects . Without really paying attention to my delivery, I believe that making a short and course su... | true | [
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tdyqvx | askphilosophy_train | 1.5 | [
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"content": "Every single statement one makes carries several presuppositions, implicatures and entailments. Almost all words and periphrastic constructions have an etymological history and carry within them connotations of many kinds. Every word is chosen for some reason (conscious or not) when you weave an i... | false | [
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"content": "The first two things that come to mind is: - Your environment - The more you learn the more you realize how dumb you are. Maybe not the answers you’re looking for but this is something that has helped me personally. I changed my close group of people around me and they were people that were more... | true | [
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h0evm6 | askphilosophy_train | 3.666667 | [
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"content": "Principles of Biomedical Ethics by Beauchamp and Childress is a must read for the human side of bioethics. It may have been covered in your undergraduate studies but it is probably good to return to at some point. This establishes the pillar of modern biomedical ethics and will effectively be the ... | true | [
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"content": "Just graduated with a Bachelors in Philosophy! I could not be more excited than receiving my degree! I want to expand on it, and primarily focus on bioethics. I absolutely intend on applying to a master's program for the topic, but i wanted a bit of a head start so I get more time to understand th... | |
h0evm6 | askphilosophy_train | 1.833333 | [
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"content": "Disclaimer: this is mostly for medical ethics. A really good start would be to check out Beauchamp and Childress *Principles of biomedical ethics*, as well as philosophers such as Frances Kamm. Some general thoughts would be to search online (such as the IEP and SEP) on human value, dignity, aut... | true | [
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xoae0y | askphilosophy_train | 3.01087 | [
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"content": "Ask lots of questions. While you're reading a text, question every assertion that is made. This allows you to critically engage with the text. Find counterexamples whenever examples are provided. Learn to logically analyze arguments and manipulate those arguments by negation, etc.",
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"content": "How do you avoid being convinced by every philosophy book you read? I find it hard to not being convinced when I’m introduced to a new philosopher idea, even more if it is about a subject I don’t know much or if it’s really complicated or if it is hard to read. How do you usually approach this new... | |
xoae0y | askphilosophy_train | 3.11236 | [
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"content": "as you read more you'll gradually develop your own views and responses to potential challenges to those views from what you read elsewhere. in the meantime, try to read critically about what you're reading. ask yourself questions like this: - do the conclusions logically follow from the prem... | false | [
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xoae0y | askphilosophy_train | 5.166667 | [
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"content": "If you read another text on the same subject - or, better still, more and more! - you might start to see more clearly what you do and don't find compelling about particular philosophers.",
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xoae0y | askphilosophy_train | 2 | [
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"content": "As long as you’re really *always* convinced and you just keep reading, it seems like a problem that solves itself. Just keep reading and think about all the different views you’re adopting differ and clash.",
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"content": "I think that happens to all or at least most of us in the first few years of reading. Keep reading. Study argument analysis or better yet take an intro to logic or intro to arguments class if it’s possible for you. Eventually you’ll start developing your own ideas and you’ll have answers and argum... | true | [
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"content": "For discussions of the justification of democracy see here. Note that one of the premises of your question, which is that \"you have good reason to think a non-democracy alternative would handle it better,\" is one that many would contest, so the setup of the question might be a little wonky.",
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"content": "Can democracy be justified if the voting population is too stupid or irresponsible to handle existential issues that affect people outside of it like with climate change or nuclear weapons? If you have good reason to think a non-democracy alternative would handle it better.",
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liy3g0 | askphilosophy_train | 3.504854 | [
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"content": "It depends which philosophical tradition you most sympathise with. If you follow Rousseau, who said \"man is born free but is everywhere in chains\", you may believe our current system stymies our native dignity and autonomy and perhaps amounts to a form of slavery. If you follow Hobbes, who belie... | false | [
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"content": "Is having a job slavery? I mean hear me out for a second. How much choice do we all really have as individuals when it comes to finding a way to generate income or a \"living\"? I just can't seem to shake this thought that maybe we're truly not free. Maybe we all are slaves to this system that w... | |
liy3g0 | askphilosophy_train | 12.892857 | [
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"content": "Welcome comrade, you have independently discovered the concept of Wage Slavery. Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels *Manifesto of the Communist Party*: >Modern Industry has converted the little workshop of the patriarchal master into the great factory of the industrial capitalist. Masses of labourers, ... | true | [
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liy3g0 | askphilosophy_train | 13.37037 | [
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"content": "> Maybe we all are slaves to this system that we created. I would like to question that. How did you or I create \"this system\"? It is important because I tend to think, as Rousseau said, that \"Obedience to the law we have prescribed is freedom\"; and that is the point of democracy. But if we... | false | [
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"content": "Is having a job slavery? I mean hear me out for a second. How much choice do we all really have as individuals when it comes to finding a way to generate income or a \"living\"? I just can't seem to shake this thought that maybe we're truly not free. Maybe we all are slaves to this system that w... | |
liy3g0 | askphilosophy_train | 9.333333 | [
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"content": "Needing to work for a living surely isn’t slavery. Barring having the robots do everything, there is no society at all in which no humans work. Identifying the need to work with slavery trivializes it. But I think you’re really asking about a situation in which you have limited choice about your ... | true | [
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"content": "Is having a job slavery? I mean hear me out for a second. How much choice do we all really have as individuals when it comes to finding a way to generate income or a \"living\"? I just can't seem to shake this thought that maybe we're truly not free. Maybe we all are slaves to this system that w... | |
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liy3g0 | askphilosophy_train | 3.666667 | [
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dy6cno | askphilosophy_train | 14.75 | [
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"content": "I like to recommend Adam Rosenfeld's videos, they're just of him teaching courses but in a very approachable manner without sacrificing the necessary complexity for grasping important concepts. His Republic may be a good place to start - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyW9RB5eWHE Plato is a fa... | false | [
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"content": "Don't laugh, but The Good Place got me into Moral Philosophy and Ethics. Where do I go from here? I'm already graduated from College. I don't expect to go back. Still I'd like to start studying this more. Are there good textbooks or online courses for someone like me?",
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dy6cno | askphilosophy_train | 1.5 | [
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"content": "Nobody is laughing at you - Beloit College has a section of Introduction to Philosophy this semester with readings comprised of watching The Good Place episodes. You're in Good Company (lol)",
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"content": "Don't laugh, but The Good Place got me into Moral Philosophy and Ethics. Where do I go from here? I'm already graduated from College. I don't expect to go back. Still I'd like to start studying this more. Are there good textbooks or online courses for someone like me?",
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dy6cno | askphilosophy_train | 9.75 | [
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"content": "After seeing some of the replies that are recommending you to start reading Aristotle or Kant, I'd like to chime in that you probably should not start there. Without an experienced mentor these texts are often really dense and dry. My advice would be to start with secondary or introductory materi... | true | [
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"content": "Don't laugh, but The Good Place got me into Moral Philosophy and Ethics. Where do I go from here? I'm already graduated from College. I don't expect to go back. Still I'd like to start studying this more. Are there good textbooks or online courses for someone like me?",
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dy6cno | askphilosophy_train | 13 | [
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"content": "John Rawls A Theory of Justice",
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"content": "Don't laugh, but The Good Place got me into Moral Philosophy and Ethics. Where do I go from here? I'm already graduated from College. I don't expect to go back. Still I'd like to start studying this more. Are there good textbooks or online courses for someone like me?",
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dy6cno | askphilosophy_train | 6.5 | [
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"content": "Nobody is laughing at you - Beloit College has a section of Introduction to Philosophy this semester with readings comprised of watching The Good Place episodes. You're in Good Company (lol)",
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"content": "Don't laugh, but The Good Place got me into Moral Philosophy and Ethics. Where do I go from here? I'm already graduated from College. I don't expect to go back. Still I'd like to start studying this more. Are there good textbooks or online courses for someone like me?",
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dy6cno | askphilosophy_train | 13 | [
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"content": "Nobody is laughing at you - Beloit College has a section of Introduction to Philosophy this semester with readings comprised of watching The Good Place episodes. You're in Good Company (lol)",
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"content": "Don't laugh, but The Good Place got me into Moral Philosophy and Ethics. Where do I go from here? I'm already graduated from College. I don't expect to go back. Still I'd like to start studying this more. Are there good textbooks or online courses for someone like me?",
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dy6cno | askphilosophy_train | 2 | [
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"content": "I never really thought about ethics and moral philosophy prior to watching The Good Place but now philosophy has become a huge part of my life. I began by reading about Kant and deontology on the internet because that was the philosopher that I remembered Chidi mentioning the most. I'm in a little... | true | [
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"content": "Don't laugh, but The Good Place got me into Moral Philosophy and Ethics. Where do I go from here? I'm already graduated from College. I don't expect to go back. Still I'd like to start studying this more. Are there good textbooks or online courses for someone like me?",
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dy6cno | askphilosophy_train | 4 | [
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"content": "You could try Philosophy Bro, which I used to find helpful for explanations of concepts and ideas that are delivered in a similarly light-hearted fashion to The Good Place. For an entry-level example you could try John Stuart Mill's \"What Utilitarianism Is\": A Summary.",
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"content": "Don't laugh, but The Good Place got me into Moral Philosophy and Ethics. Where do I go from here? I'm already graduated from College. I don't expect to go back. Still I'd like to start studying this more. Are there good textbooks or online courses for someone like me?",
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dy6cno | askphilosophy_train | 4 | [
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"content": "I really enjoyed Miller's Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0745646581/ Feel free to DM me for a PDF.",
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"content": "Don't laugh, but The Good Place got me into Moral Philosophy and Ethics. Where do I go from here? I'm already graduated from College. I don't expect to go back. Still I'd like to start studying this more. Are there good textbooks or online courses for someone like me?",
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dy6cno | askphilosophy_train | 2.666667 | [
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"content": "John Rawls A Theory of Justice",
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"content": "Don't laugh, but The Good Place got me into Moral Philosophy and Ethics. Where do I go from here? I'm already graduated from College. I don't expect to go back. Still I'd like to start studying this more. Are there good textbooks or online courses for someone like me?",
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dy6cno | askphilosophy_train | 1.5 | [
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"content": "I like The Good Place a lot, but in a way, its talk of moral philosophy is undermined by its character development. Each character makes moral progress in a more or less Freudian way: by considering traumatic events in their lives and processing them. Moral philosophy functions as a kind of contex... | true | [
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"content": "Don't laugh, but The Good Place got me into Moral Philosophy and Ethics. Where do I go from here? I'm already graduated from College. I don't expect to go back. Still I'd like to start studying this more. Are there good textbooks or online courses for someone like me?",
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dy6cno | askphilosophy_train | 1.5 | [
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"content": "I like The Good Place a lot, but in a way, its talk of moral philosophy is undermined by its character development. Each character makes moral progress in a more or less Freudian way: by considering traumatic events in their lives and processing them. Moral philosophy functions as a kind of contex... | true | [
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"content": "Don't laugh, but The Good Place got me into Moral Philosophy and Ethics. Where do I go from here? I'm already graduated from College. I don't expect to go back. Still I'd like to start studying this more. Are there good textbooks or online courses for someone like me?",
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dy6cno | askphilosophy_train | 1.5 | [
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"content": "I really enjoyed Miller's Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0745646581/ Feel free to DM me for a PDF.",
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"content": "Don't laugh, but The Good Place got me into Moral Philosophy and Ethics. Where do I go from here? I'm already graduated from College. I don't expect to go back. Still I'd like to start studying this more. Are there good textbooks or online courses for someone like me?",
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vilkbj | askphilosophy_train | 3.391304 | [
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"content": "Our best sciences---namely, evolutionary biology---make it pretty clear that more \"intelligent\" and complex lifeforms can evolve out of less \"intelligent\" and complex lifeforms. The only \"creator\" of humans are the processes of mutation and natural selection and the environments in which tho... | true | [
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"content": "If mankind can create AI that is more intelligent than itself, is it possible that mankind's creator is less intelligent than itself? Could it be something we don't even consider to be sentient? If humans ever create an artificial intelligence that is of greater intelligence than humankind, that w... | |
vilkbj | askphilosophy_train | 11.5 | [
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"content": "If mankind can create AI that is more intelligent than itself, is it possible that mankind's creator is less intelligent than itself? Could it be something we don't even consider to be sentient? If humans ever create an artificial intelligence that is of greater intelligence than humankind, that w... | |
77hda6 | askphilosophy_train | 4.776 | [
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"content": "All those guys heavily rely on huge generalisations about \"Cultural Marxism\" and \"postmodernism\" etc., so just ask them if they can support their claims by referring to specific thinkers and specific texts. *That* they cannot do.",
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"content": "How to deal with unproductive gadflies like followers of Stephen Molyneux, Ben Shapiro, and Jordan Peterson? Studying philosophy as an undergrad, I have collected a couple acquaintances who always come to me in hopes bouncing their terrible ideology off of me in debate. God knows why. I'm faaaar f... | |
77hda6 | askphilosophy_train | 13.266667 | [
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"content": "Card carrying Sophist here (a rhetorican who teaches philosophy). There is no sure fire way to deal with these folks, but there are a few things worth suggesting. As a preface, no one enjoys yelling about how Peterson is wrong more than I do, but it's a futile exercise in certain cases. Peterso... | true | [
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"content": "How to deal with unproductive gadflies like followers of Stephen Molyneux, Ben Shapiro, and Jordan Peterson? Studying philosophy as an undergrad, I have collected a couple acquaintances who always come to me in hopes bouncing their terrible ideology off of me in debate. God knows why. I'm faaaar f... | |
77hda6 | askphilosophy_train | 5.166667 | [
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"content": "So I went to college in the days before YouTube, which was great, but we still had our gadflies. The best way to deal with them is not to do it. If it feeds their martyr complex, ignore them all the harder. They'll never matter in any way that's really relevant.",
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"content": "I might understand why you're digging at Stephen Molyneux and Ben Shapiro, as they carry more of a dogmatic/rhetorical function than critical one, which is evident by the fact that they are not actual academics, but pretty much quite a chunk of my professors that I've talked to in both universitie... | true | [
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"content": "How to deal with unproductive gadflies like followers of Stephen Molyneux, Ben Shapiro, and Jordan Peterson? Studying philosophy as an undergrad, I have collected a couple acquaintances who always come to me in hopes bouncing their terrible ideology off of me in debate. God knows why. I'm faaaar f... | |
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"content": "A lot of the answers here are along the lines of \"both of those things are very immoral\", and resolve the tension that way. But even if eating animals is not bad in itself, I think we still have firm grounds to say bestiality is wrong--not because it is particularly harmful to an animal in a wa... | true | [
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"content": "Why is having sex with animals wrong but killing and then eating them is okay? Why should sex with animals be considered wrong, degenerate or immoral when it might make someone happy; while killing animals and eating them is considered perfectly normal? > But we need to eat! You don't need to ea... | |
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"content": "Why is having sex with animals wrong but killing and then eating them is okay? Why should sex with animals be considered wrong, degenerate or immoral when it might make someone happy; while killing animals and eating them is considered perfectly normal? > But we need to eat! You don't need to ea... | |
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"content": "John Hick and Origen’s notions of how Hell and Earth prepare for the afterlife is similar to this, but I couldn’t tell you anyone else rn.",
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"content": "In the Simpsons episode “Bart’s Soul”, Lisa tells Bart that “some philosophers believe that no one is born with a soul; that you have to earn it through suffering and thought and prayer.” Is that true, and to whom might she be referring?",
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"content": "You might be interested in the SEP article on civil disobedience. William Scheuerman (here) argues that we should interpret the Snowden whistle blowing example as a kind of civil disobedience.",
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"content": "If Edward Snowden saw his government doing things that they don't have the constitutional right to do, does he have the ethical responsibility to alert the populace even if he signed a contract to not divulge anything being done behind closed doors? Few politicians (Tulsi Gabbard one notable excep... | |
ga4pjr | askphilosophy_train | 4.923077 | [
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"content": "Have you tried reading up on Stoic philosophy? Particularly Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus; they provide a simple philosophy for day-to-day life, their messages and style of writing easy to digest and heed. Hope this helps.",
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"content": "I'm a 30 year old idiot- what are some essential, but approachable/understandable, readings I can absorb and use as a basis to move forward? Preface: I'm a complete and utter 30 year old idiot who, in his three decades on earth, hasn't done anything, or really absorbed any of what he's been taught... | |
ga4pjr | askphilosophy_train | 2.545455 | [
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"content": "Listen to “philosophize this” it’s a podcast that really breaks everything down In easy to understand terms. Start with people you’ve heard of but want to know more about (Hume, Kant, nietzsche, etc) and go from there. Stephen west does a great job. 10/10! Good luck and godspeed",
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ga4pjr | askphilosophy_train | 7 | [
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"content": "Listen to “philosophize this” it’s a podcast that really breaks everything down In easy to understand terms. Start with people you’ve heard of but want to know more about (Hume, Kant, nietzsche, etc) and go from there. Stephen west does a great job. 10/10! Good luck and godspeed",
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ga4pjr | askphilosophy_train | 14 | [
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"content": "I'm gonna echo everything everyone else has said. The Republic and some of Nietzsche's aphoristic works are as good a place to start as any in terms of books. The podcasts and YT channels are also decent resources, as well as Kenny's New History, also referenced below. I want to give a different-... | false | [
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ga4pjr | askphilosophy_train | 14 | [
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"content": "Listen to “philosophize this” it’s a podcast that really breaks everything down In easy to understand terms. Start with people you’ve heard of but want to know more about (Hume, Kant, nietzsche, etc) and go from there. Stephen west does a great job. 10/10! Good luck and godspeed",
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"content": "I'm a 30 year old idiot- what are some essential, but approachable/understandable, readings I can absorb and use as a basis to move forward? Preface: I'm a complete and utter 30 year old idiot who, in his three decades on earth, hasn't done anything, or really absorbed any of what he's been taught... | |
ga4pjr | askphilosophy_train | 14 | [
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"content": "Listen to “philosophize this” it’s a podcast that really breaks everything down In easy to understand terms. Start with people you’ve heard of but want to know more about (Hume, Kant, nietzsche, etc) and go from there. Stephen west does a great job. 10/10! Good luck and godspeed",
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