Category: Philosophy
Philosophical Essays
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The Biggest Flaw with Version 1 of My Philosophy
Where I explain why my philosophy went wrong.
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The Desire to Do it Right
Where I give up on my grand project and choose the long hard path instead.
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Instead of Netflix and Chill, Do This
One way to figure out what works for humans is to think about the hunter gatherers. We were hunter gatherers for most of human history. Civilization is so new, most of our dead ancestors shake their heads in disbelief about how weird the kids have turned out. It is true though that we evolved for…
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Understanding “Understanding” and the Definition of “Definition”
In the last post I said that I understood life and the world pretty well. That is a grand claim. Based on what I’ve seen, most academic philosophers try to avoid such claims. I once heard a professional philosopher on a podcast say, “I don’t know what philosophy is.” “So you’re charging students to teach…
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What Philosophy is to Me
When I used to watch a lot of YouTube, I followed quite a few philosophy youtubers. Most of them made videos about old philosophers and their philosophies. This is what so and so said about this and that. This is what what’s his face meant when he said blah blah blah. As interesting as I…
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You Can’t Fail in Life
The last two posts have been talking about nihilism as almost a cure to the pressures of life. Continuing along the same line, one consequence of life being meaningless is that you can’t do life wrong. There is no way to fail in life. We are all just living beings, experiencing life in the universe…
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The Pressures of Human Life
When I was a teenager, all adults would tell me how important it was for me to do well in my studies and get into a good college. I was a good student so I was expected to “achieve my full potential” by getting a good job (engineer or doctor). After that it was expected…
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Rudya Aditya 