What’s Your Philosophy of Life?

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What my students get when they turn up to PHIL 101, on the other hand, is a crash course in analytic philosophy, the particularly techy strain of the discipline that came to dominate English-speaking university departments in the twentieth century. A central feature of analytic philosophy is its small-scale, piecemeal method of approaching big questions.

A second feature of analytic philosophy is an attitude. The standard philosophy professor these days is a hardheaded secular rationalist.

But I find myself wondering if you can really pull that division-of-labor move with philosophy, even if you can with, say, economics or physics. Though we call philosophy the love of truth, what it really seeks is understanding, which requires grasping the relationships between things and organizing them into an intelligible whole. It’s no longer clear to me that you can do this adequately if you restrict your attention to one tiny domain at a time.

https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/whats-your-philosophy-of-life/
 
BidenPresident said:
Wow.
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the best answers are often the simplest. try applying this test to every action you are about to take and see if it doesnt provide the best result.

note its not important that you agree with what is right, only that you DO it.

an example:

a person says "blacks are stupid"

you could respond "thats racist !"
or
you could respond by walking away
or
you could respond by saying "science tells us otherwise"

whats the right way (and by extension, making the other ways wrong).
 
Celticguy said:
the best answers are often the simplest. try applying this test to every action you are about to take and see if it doesnt provide the best result.

note its not important that you agree with what is right, only that you DO it.

an example:

a person says "blacks are stupid"

you could respond "thats racist !"
or
you could respond by walking away
or
you could respond by saying "science tells us otherwise"

whats the right way (and by extension, making the other ways wrong).
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I see, you see philosophy of life as ethics.
 
I believe that man only ever does anything for only one of two motives!

He does it to either- gain pleasure from it- or he does it to prevent some kind of pain!

Sometimes you can actually gain pleasure and prevent pain by a single simple step!

Sometimes, you have to risk a little pain to gain pleasure! Is the pleasure worth the pain?

But, know why you do everything!

Just ask yourself before making any decision- "Am I doing this to gain pleasure from it, or am I doing it to prevent some kind of pain I have now or could have in the future"?

Try to avoid as much pain as you can in life by making the very best decisions you can for yourself.
 
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Geeko Sportivo said:
I believe that man only ever does anything for only one of two motives!

He does it to either- gain pleasure from it- or he does it to prevent some kind of pain!

Sometimes you can actually gain pleasure and prevent pain by a single simple step!
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Truth


The truth will set you free


Learn to discern what is truth


The rest is stick with that truth
 
evince said:
Truth


The truth will set you free


Learn to discern what is truth


The rest is stick with that truth
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My grandmother taught me, to live a lie- will cause you to tell 1,000 more lies!

My Dad taught me that "Lying is stealing", because when you lie, you are robbing others of the truth!

Lying to oneself robs yourself of your own dignity and integrity you have of yourself and to everyone that catches you in your lie!

The truth is never hidden forever- as it is normally eventually revealed by researching and establishing historical and scientific facts.
 
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Geeko Sportivo said:
My grandmother taught me, to live a lie- will cause you to tell 1,000 more lies!

My Dad taught me that "Lying is stealing", because when you lie, you are robbing others of the truth!
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You come from excellent people


Lies destroy everything good


It’s the truth
 
I call it reaching maximum lie factor


When you tell a lie you have to tell other lies to back that lie up


At some point all you have left is lies to protect lies



Maximum lie factor


Lies are the choice of weak dishonest people who will never posses the joy which is true reality


They live in a shitty confused haze
 
BidenPresident said:
What my students get when they turn up to PHIL 101, on the other hand, is a crash course in analytic philosophy, the particularly techy strain of the discipline that came to dominate English-speaking university departments in the twentieth century. A central feature of analytic philosophy is its small-scale, piecemeal method of approaching big questions.

A second feature of analytic philosophy is an attitude. The standard philosophy professor these days is a hardheaded secular rationalist.

But I find myself wondering if you can really pull that division-of-labor move with philosophy, even if you can with, say, economics or physics. Though we call philosophy the love of truth, what it really seeks is understanding, which requires grasping the relationships between things and organizing them into an intelligible whole. It’s no longer clear to me that you can do this adequately if you restrict your attention to one tiny domain at a time.

https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/whats-your-philosophy-of-life/
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The specialists have failed, we need many more and better generalists if the species is to get out of this Dark Age and thrive again.
 
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