2/ Ever wondered wonder why questions in philosophy never get resolved? E.g. take the question of whether we have free will or not. From Socrates to Kant and to modern day philosophers everyone seems to have an opinion on free will. Even I have an opinion https://paraschopra.com/blog/personal/free-will-faciticity-consequences.htm …
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3/ Why is that so? Why, unlike science, where all scientists agree that energy can neither be created, nor be destroyed, every philosopher has his/her personal answer to philosophical questions.
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4/ This lack of progress in philosophy has bugged me but I think I’m closer to a satisfactory answer. The language philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein has helped me in this regard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein …
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5/ Although he didn’t say it directly, I think he is correct in suggesting that most of the philosophical discussions are ego-driven and subjective, just like most of the political discussions are
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6/ As different people prefer different outcomes (usually the ones that are advantageous to them personally), the outcome of a political debate isn’t the correct answer but it’s a good answer that most find satisfactory enough.
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7/ By ‘correct’, I mean an objective fact that’s independent of people. By ‘good’, I mean an opinion that people prefer over other proposed alternatives. Philosophies, like political outcomes, are good or bad, not correct or incorrect.
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8/ The reason there’s no agreement on questions of morality, liberty, free will, etc. is because these topics explore how a human ought to live. Everyone has a pet-theory for these philosophical questions, some are sophisticated, others are naive but none is ‘objectively’ true
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9/ The victory of your philosophical outlook over others is a matter of convincing them that your version is better. And that’s a necessarily political act.
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10/ Experimentalists miss the point. It doesn't matter whether you can experimentally falsify the God-theory because you have to first get believers to agree that experiment is a way to answer this question 'God' in a religious context, one where scientific context doesn't apply
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11/ Let’s come back to the question of free will and whether it exists. It sounds embarrassingly simple but if you unpack individual words, you’ll quickly realize that the question is nonsense or underwhelming.pic.twitter.com/WK0vBL1Jjb
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Have you read this one? Intersting thought experiment on the free will topic:https://twitter.com/kpaxs/status/901847523463135232?s=21 …
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