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Welcome to /r/philosophy! Check out our rules and guidelines here. [June 1 2024 Update]

created by BernardJOrtcutt on 01/06/2024 at 19:24 UTC - 13 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

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/r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | May 27, 2024

created by BernardJOrtcutt on 27/05/2024 at 14:00 UTC - 20 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

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Aristotle's On Interpetation Ch. I: On what underlies Language and how we produce Truth with it

created by SnowballtheSage on 02/06/2024 at 11:50 UTC - 14 upvotes (https, aristotlestudygroup.substack.com)

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For Kierkegaard, the knight of faith lives a happy and content life, truly believing in the impossible even in the material finite world. Despite this, they appear ultimately unremarkable in the world.

created by marineiguana27 on 02/06/2024 at 15:12 UTC - 1 upvotes (https, www.youtube.com)

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Neutrality, Cultural Literacy, and Arts Funding

created by ADefiniteDescription on 02/06/2024 at 02:29 UTC - 3 upvotes (https, journals.publishing.umich.edu)

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Are all humans equal?

created by Simp_7884 on 02/06/2024 at 09:12 UTC - 0 upvotes (https, blogs.lse.ac.uk)

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Human dominance is a fact, not a debate

created by ddgr815 on 31/05/2024 at 18:28 UTC - 88 upvotes (https, aeon.co)

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Diseases as Social Problems

created by ADefiniteDescription on 01/06/2024 at 00:24 UTC - 10 upvotes (https, link.springer.com)

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Pascal's Wager is not meant to be a proof of God. Pascal believed that reason alone was not sufficient, rather, it's the first step. "The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason."

created by WeltgeistYT on 30/05/2024 at 18:49 UTC - 86 upvotes (https, youtu.be)

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Normativity, Prudence and Welfare

created by ADefiniteDescription on 31/05/2024 at 02:16 UTC - 6 upvotes (https, link.springer.com)

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The illusion of “paying attention”: Attention is merely motivation, awareness, and eye movement, which you then interpret retrospectively as an "action".

created by CardboardDreams on 01/06/2024 at 03:59 UTC - 0 upvotes (https, ykulbashian.medium.com)

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“Materialism is not science, it’s not even close” | Philosopher James Tartaglia makes the case for the much maligned metaphysical idealism, and how society could benefit from making it the metaphysical paradigm

created by IAI_Admin on 31/05/2024 at 12:18 UTC - 0 upvotes (https, iai.tv)

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Flow and Presentness in Experience

created by ADefiniteDescription on 30/05/2024 at 04:34 UTC - 16 upvotes (https, onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

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3 free will arguments, explained by physicist Sean Carroll

created by greghickey5 on 29/05/2024 at 03:08 UTC - 29 upvotes (https, bigthink.com)

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The Burdens of Morality: Why Act-Consequentialism Demands Too Little

created by ADefiniteDescription on 28/05/2024 at 22:20 UTC - 38 upvotes (https, www.pdcnet.org)

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Robert Goodin and Nietzsche both argue for the importance of settling as a means of striving and finding oneself - this may be helpful in overcoming existential despair

created by becoolandchilandlive on 28/05/2024 at 11:55 UTC - 45 upvotes (https, youtu.be)

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Psychophysical Harmony: A New Argument for Theism

created by Nessagi9 on 29/05/2024 at 21:46 UTC - 0 upvotes (https, philarchive.org)

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Both The Art of War and The Prince have been heavily used as practical advice even in the modern world. This video compares them to determine which is ultimately better for the average person to help them achieve their goals.

created by marineiguana27 on 29/05/2024 at 15:12 UTC - 0 upvotes (https, www.youtube.com)

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Subjective Facts about Consciousness

created by ADefiniteDescription on 27/05/2024 at 20:26 UTC - 2 upvotes (https, journals.publishing.umich.edu)

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The Moral Inefficacy of Carbon Offsetting

created by ADefiniteDescription on 27/05/2024 at 03:17 UTC - 25 upvotes (https, www.tandfonline.com)

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Machiavelli's The Prince offers morally questionable advice, but it's predicated on his opinion that humans are generally evil. Arguably, Machiavelli's experience with political turmoil and torture may have contributed to this view on humanity.

created by marineiguana27 on 26/05/2024 at 15:16 UTC - 78 upvotes (https, www.youtube.com)

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Proponents of human enhancement believe that we ought to use biotechnology to increase our capacities as a way to increase our well-being

created by Huge_Pay8265 on 26/05/2024 at 12:17 UTC - 25 upvotes (https, youtu.be)

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While many theorists have explored the Marxist concept of alienation, Hartmut Rosa proposes a way out of the crisis of meaning: Resonance - a vulnerable relation with the self and others

created by becoolandchilandlive on 26/05/2024 at 11:05 UTC - 21 upvotes (https, youtu.be)

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Evidentialism, Justification, and Knowledge-First

created by ADefiniteDescription on 26/05/2024 at 02:20 UTC - 13 upvotes (https, onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

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Thinking is an act of imposing one’s will onto truth, not passive prediction

created by CardboardDreams on 25/05/2024 at 04:38 UTC - 41 upvotes (https, ykulbashian.medium.com)

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