Philosophize This!
Stephen West goes thinker by thinker through philosophy's history, clear chains of concepts, traceable to the originals
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34:41Philosophize This!
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The alien philosophy isn't wisdom, it's Vonnegut's painkiller for trauma
The Tralfamadorian fatalism, eternalism and quietism are exactly what Billy needs after Dresden — Vonnegut uses this philosophy to demonstrate not a truth, but how a traumatised person uses philosophy as an analgesic.
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literary philosophydeterminism
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Changing Your Life Isn't Swapping Beliefs, It's Moving Out of the Casino You Built Yourself
You are not an independent subject standing across from the world; you are a product jointly constituted by your environment, your body, and your symbolic immune system. To change your life, you have to change beliefs, action, and world at once — not just force yourself to "think it through."
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