#what is philosophy?

[usernamesaresohardimconflicted]

You watch while Sisyphis is continuously rolling boulders towards the top of a hill. Right before he gets there, The Boulder goes through one of two slits.

One leads to the Grand Hilbert Hotel. With an infinite number of rooms, it seems like they can easily accommodate the boulders, but all of the rooms are full, perhaps we can move some people around?

The other leads to the Ship of Theseus, but all of the pieces have been replaced over time. If a Boulder hits the ship, is it truly destroying the ship of theseus?

If you stop watching, the boulders will go through in a wave pattern instead.

If it hits the box with Schrodinger's Cat, the cat has a fifty percent chance of already being dead, but you won't know unless you look inside the box before the Boulder reaches it. If the boulder reaches it before you check, then there's a fifty percent chance that the cats death is your fault, but you will never know.

If the boulder hits Tantalaus, he is starving and undoubtedly can not fend off a rolling boulder, but he also would be unable to touch it if he tried.

If the boulder heads towards the featherless biped, it might kill a man, but some people argue that featherless bipeds are not necessarily men, so does it count as murder?

Does this still count as a trolly problem?

[girlwithrituals]

next time if you ever feel like falling back to old habits just remember this

personally, there's no better motivation than remembering that there's probably many people out there who don't want me to succeed.

[fictionadventurer]

Fantasy is philosophy’s more gorgeously painted cousin. You can’t just tell a child a blunt fact about the human heart and expect them to believe you. That’s not how it works. You can’t scribble on a Post-it note for a 12-year-old: your strangeness is worth keeping, or your love will matter. You need to show it. And fantasy, with its limitless scope, gives us a way of offering longhand proof for otherwise inarticulable ideas: endurance and hatred and regret, and power and passion and death.

-Katherine Rundell, "Why children's books?"

[luxlightly]

"If you're hurt by finding out that a person you admired did something bad or are worried about the idea they might, it shows you need to not form attachments to people you don't personally know."

I have bad news for you about how literally the entirety of human socialization and the human mind work. You can say "here's a stick from off the ground. his name is Stanley and he has a loving family" and then break the stick and people will feel hurt because they formed a positive connection to Stanley. Humans project attachment onto everything. Asking people not to feel connections to other humans is not feasible. It's not possible and, if it were, it sure as hell wouldn't be healthy.

You didn't do anything wrong if you feel hurt that someone you didn't personally know did something wrong. You're not parasitic or obsessive for wanting people you don't personally know to be good people. Being devastated that someone you liked did something horrible isn't a sign you liked them too much, it's a sign you have the basic human ability to form emotional and social connections. Your responsibility is being aware of those connections and behaving in ways that are healthy, respectful, and keep you and others safe.

Trying to just not admire people or not feel a connection to other humans won't work. Focus instead on being aware of what your relationships to other people are, what actions on your part are acceptable given that level of relationship, what actions are acceptable on their part, and what level of relationship it's realistic or healthy to project. And be ready, as with all things in life, to change your views on something or someone when presented with new information, even if you have very strong emotional connections to the subject. For example: "I'd love to get a cup of coffee with the celebrity I don't know and talk with them about a film they're in. I imagine that would be nice." <- normal human emotion "I will go to this celebrity I don't know and ask them, apropos of nothing, to get a coffee with me/I expect this celebrity I've never met WILL go to coffee with me" <- Unrealistic level of projected relationship. Crosses boundaries of normal human interactions between strangers.

"I'm devastated this actor I liked was an abuser" <- normal human emotion

"I won't believe that this actor was an abuser because I like him and therefore can tell he wouldn't do that" <- Unrealistic and unhealthy level of projected relationship. Unsafe for you and others.

You can't just "not admire" people, yes, even people you don't know personally. Instead, be careful to make sure your admiration of someone doesn't affect your ability to make judgements about them.

[wretchedxdivine]

there's a philosophical message in there somewhere but I'm too hungry and sweaty to think of it

Based on a conversation with @perfectpossumprincess and @d-d-disgusting about a mad little mantidfly they found

[vendimeyers]

Trying to put my finger on the concept of how like the only real interaction between Kaladin and Jasnah in the series is like that one like… not quite argument in like book two where they both present their somewhat opposing moral philosophies and Jasnah talks circles around Kaladin and he walks away kinda bitter and neither of them change their ways over it but three and a half books later his approach to morality leads him to find peace and become a cornerstone influence for good in the world while her philosophy leads her to losing a kingdom and spiraling into self loathing and something something “it was unfair that convincing someone depended not on the strength of ideas but the strength of the arguer.” But he was RIGHT and she was WRONG and I don’t know where I’m going with this but DO YOU GET WHAT IM SAYING

[3whitebutterfliez]

I’m obsessed with calico critters 💗🤍🦢

[franeridart]

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[spotsupstuff]

day 6

all love to Martini and Procyon (the blue)

[rosenruins]

a big fan of intelligence, both emotional and intellectual.

[thoodleoo]

me: i don't know, zosimus, i worry that in trying so hard to follow a nebulous philosophical "good" i'm failing to actually act in a way that supports and connects me to my fellow man. what do you think?

the stoic philosopher who lives in my house and advises me in exchange for eating breadcrumbs out the bottom of my toaster: have you considered killing yourself to attain true virtue

[rolanslide]

Insane about "a lawyer only cries when it's all over" because that line explains so much about the psychology of these dumb fuck esquires. Diego passed his horrible coping mechanisms and inability to process trauma onto Mia who then passed it to Phoenix. One line and it perfectly contextualizes why these people are Like That

[violettressedd]

we got femme4butch, butch4butch, and femme4femme already, so can we make autisticlesbian4autisticlesbian next or is the economy too bad?

[marmialadee]

Thank you Pinterest for making me see this, this morning

[theabigailthorn]

I'M MAKING A MOVIE

My next big creative project just got greenlit!

Last year we made The Prince, and it was a gamechanger - next year I'm making a sexy horror comedy vampire movie!

Can't wait to get started on this one lol. Also thank you?! This happened because people went so gaga for The Prince. It's phenomenal.

[shorthaltsjester]

ashton truly is like. student very enthused to get involved in the class discussion. unfortunately they did the reading while high and only have a few sparse notes to help them through and they read “gods & death . something happening there. the everlight exists. melora rips wizard throat with teeth. the gods know EVERYTHING. the gods know NOTHING. gods will kill mortals for knowing things about them. apples?” and there are no page numbers written to help them with context. this does not stop them — to the great horror of everyone else in the lecture hall — from speaking the most during group discussion