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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 - 25 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

/r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | February 24, 2025

created by BernardJOrtcutt on 24/02/2025 at 14:00 UTC - 7 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

Memory shapes our sense of self, but its unreliability makes both identity and reality fluid. If our past is a shifting story, so is truth itself: memory doesn’t just recall reality, it creates it.

created by IAI_Admin on 26/02/2025 at 10:42 UTC - 513 upvotes (https, iai.tv)

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Quantum mechanics suggests reality isn’t made of standalone objects but exists only in relations, transforming our understanding of the universe. | An interview with Carlo Rovelli on quantum mechanics, white holes and the relational universe.

created by IAI_Admin on 24/02/2025 at 09:56 UTC - 616 upvotes (https, iai.tv)

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On Misanthropy | Ian James Kidd offers an overview of philosophical misanthropy, including his own definition (“the systematic condemnation of the moral character of humankind as it has come to be”), and clarifies how – and why – one may wish to be a misanthrope.

created by ThePhilosopher1923 on 23/02/2025 at 06:11 UTC - 58 upvotes (https, www.thephilosopher1923.org)

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How Christianity Polluted the Moral Atmosphere of the West

created by DirtyOldPanties on 24/02/2025 at 12:27 UTC - 0 upvotes (https, newideal.aynrand.org)

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Forget facts and values, everything is a judgement | Hume said you can't get an 'ought' from an 'is,' but facts and values are inseparable. Science isn’t value-free, and ethics isn’t just opinions.

created by IAI_Admin on 21/02/2025 at 10:35 UTC - 75 upvotes (https, iai.tv)

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Wild fish can tell humans apart when they dress differently, study finds - Researchers say study, which involved training bream to follow a specific diver for treats, could change the way we treat fish.

created by -Mystica- on 20/02/2025 at 01:18 UTC - 426 upvotes (https, www.theguardian.com)

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A Tentative Case for Consequentialism

created by SilasTheSavage on 20/02/2025 at 16:35 UTC - 14 upvotes (https, open.substack.com)

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Unexpected words from a Roman emperor: " We love ourselves the most but value the opinions of others over our own." - Marcus Aurelius

created by parvusignis on 19/02/2025 at 18:31 UTC - 163 upvotes (https, youtu.be)

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Inner peace doesn’t come from silencing parts of ourselves in favour of reason – as Plato envisioned – but from allowing our inner personas to coexist, maximising agency and satisfaction for each of them.

created by IAI_Admin on 19/02/2025 at 11:34 UTC - 227 upvotes (https, iai.tv)

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Everything doesn't happen for a reason. | We must reject Stoic fatalism in favour of human responsibility. In the end, we are accountable to each other, not to fate or the universe.

created by IAI_Admin on 17/02/2025 at 10:30 UTC - 2017 upvotes (https, iai.tv)

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Philosophy Born of Struggle | We must ask what it means to do philosophy when we fully expect that the next generation will be worse off, in many ways, than our generation. Vincent Lloyd looks to old age and to the tradition of Black philosophy for answers.

created by ThePhilosopher1923 on 18/02/2025 at 03:31 UTC - 19 upvotes (https, www.thephilosopher1923.org)

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Expected Value Fanaticism

created by petrakosonen on 18/02/2025 at 06:54 UTC - 6 upvotes (https, utilitarianism.net)

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/r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | February 17, 2025

created by BernardJOrtcutt on 17/02/2025 at 14:00 UTC - 8 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

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Reparations are not a matter of personal guilt. Just as our taxes repay the national debts incurred before we were born, reparations can redress debts incurred by past injustices. We are responsible as citizens, not as wrongdoers. — An article from The Pamphlet

created by The_Pamphlet on 18/02/2025 at 13:41 UTC - 0 upvotes (https, www.the-pamphlet.com)

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Plato’s warning: Extreme inequality isn’t just unfair but inevitably leads to civil war, “the greatest of all plagues.”

created by IAI_Admin on 14/02/2025 at 10:51 UTC - 6220 upvotes (https, iai.tv)

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Walter Sinnott-Armstrong believes we can create something like moral AI

created by Huge_Pay8265 on 16/02/2025 at 14:16 UTC - 0 upvotes (https, youtu.be)

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There Is Nothing Natural

created by SilasTheSavage on 14/02/2025 at 23:59 UTC - 15 upvotes (https, open.substack.com)

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Freud vs Jung: Trauma extends beyond the self | Your mental health isn’t just personal – politics, class, and society live in your psyche too.

created by IAI_Admin on 12/02/2025 at 10:34 UTC - 433 upvotes (https, iai.tv)

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While Tables Burn: On the (Non) Existence of Trans People and the Failure of Philosophy | Talia Mae Bettcher

created by completely-ineffable on 10/02/2025 at 22:24 UTC - 152 upvotes (https, dailynous.com)

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A Mirror for Tech-Bros: Effective Altruism, Longtermism, and the Problem of Arbitrary Power | The FTX fiasco reveals a problem deeper than keeping bad company and more subtle than anticapitalism. It exposes a naivety about power, the absence of a working theory of power

created by ThePhilosopher1923 on 11/02/2025 at 01:22 UTC - 80 upvotes (https, www.thephilosopher1923.org)

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The "mind-body problem" is a myth. There's no fixed "body" to contrast the mind against, only many unsolved questions across science and philosophy.

created by IAI_Admin on 10/02/2025 at 10:57 UTC - 361 upvotes (https, iai.tv)

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Why AI Is A Philosophical Rupture | NOEMA

created by Advanced_Banana_4409 on 12/02/2025 at 00:08 UTC - 0 upvotes (https, www.noemamag.com)

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/r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | February 10, 2025

created by BernardJOrtcutt on 10/02/2025 at 14:00 UTC - 10 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

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