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#1
Blog
: "Stoicism's archnemesis Epicurus wasn't your typical hedonist. His recipe for the good life emphasised minimising pain rather than maximising pleasure. Living frugally and free from pain we could live cheerfully and in community with the greatest blessing of all—friends"
30 posts
#2
Article
: "Advancing the Debate on the Consequences of Misinformation: Clarifying Why It's Not (Just) About False Beliefs"
20 posts
#3
Video
: ""Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis." Freud's view on religion as a coping mechanism arising out of the need for a protective father figure, as a child grows out of the parental protective bubble and needs to confront the unfriendly world around him."
17 posts
#4
Book Review
: "Proust's In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives"
5 posts
#5
Open Thread
: "/r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | February 05, 2024"
4 posts
#6
Podcast
: "Cognitive scientist Don Hoffman argues that consciousness can explain the laws of physics. His research team has created a mathematically precise model of idealist metaphysics. We can derive fundamental laws of physics as a special case of this consciousness-only model"
1 posts
#7
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: "Is grieving selfish?"
1 posts
#8
Paper [PDF]
: "(Re) Thinking Free Will. Towards an Expressionist Ontology"
1 posts

Popular Posts in r/philosophy

Stoicism's archnemesis Epicurus wasn't your typical hedonist. His recipe for the good life emphasised minimising pain rather than maximising pleasure. Living frugally and free from pain we could live cheerfully and in community with the greatest blessing of all—friends
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20th-century existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir suggests that for a relationship to be healthy, it must augment the freedom of those involved, rather than diminish it. ‘Authentic love’ revolves around reciprocity and respect, not enforced self-sacrifice.
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The philosopher Iris Murdoch thought our inner lives are too often clogged by the “fat, relentless ego”. By contemplating beauty in nature & art, however, we can deflate the brooding, grasping self (a process Murdoch describes as “unselfing”) & open our eyes to reality.
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Existential Nihilism (the belief that there's no meaning or purpose outside of humanity's self-delusions) emerged out of the decay of religious narratives in the face of science. Existentialism and Absurdism are two proposed solutions — self-created value and rebellion
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"Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis." Freud's view on religion as a coping mechanism arising out of the need for a protective father figure, as a child grows out of the parental protective bubble and needs to confront the unfriendly world around him.
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Carl Jung's concept of the Collective Unconscious is often misunderstood to be a collective hive consciousness but it was really a hypothesis about a mental counterpart to DNA by which instinctual structures of the mind are inherited
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The secrets of free will, consciousness, and the self will not be unlocked just through analyzing the brain’s most primordial physical components, argues Douglas Hofstadter. We need to better integrate high-level mental properties into our explanations of reality.
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Conventional wisdom holds that incels despise feminism for disempowering men. But Simone de Beauvoir's notion of the feminine ‘Other’ gets us closer to understanding their ambivalent view of women as idealised, mysterious and yet resented beings beyond their reach.
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Cognitive scientist Don Hoffman argues that consciousness can explain the laws of physics. His research team has created a mathematically precise model of idealist metaphysics. We can derive fundamental laws of physics as a special case of this consciousness-only model
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Reality might be turtles all the way down. Rejecting infinite descent or circularity in favour of a foundational level of reality - be it God, quarks, or consciousness - lacks a compelling basis and takes for granted how the foundation itself came to exist.
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If a lion could speak, AI couldn’t understand it. | Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language explains why artificial intelligence will never be able to translate animal language.
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Robert Nozick’s 1974 ‘experience machine’ is commonly taken to be a knock-down argument that there’s more to life than pleasure. In recent decades, however, defenders of hedonism have argued that the thought experiment is deeply flawed.
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Our desires show signs of who we are authentically. Anxiety, however, often gets in the way of us pursuing our desires. This leads one to wonder if our true authentic self should include our anxiety or exclude it.
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"I come home more greedy, more ambitious, more voluptuous, and even more cruel and inhuman, because I have been among human beings."
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Michel Foucault on the insane, the criminals, and the sexual deviants
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