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I prefer when people engage with philosophy seriously. Trying to couch philosophical ideas in this sort of frivolous language falsely implies that you can understand them without dedicated effort. The language of philosophy isn't the hard part if your doing it right.



Dedicated effort? Whatever, man. I just Kant deal with this sh*t.


I'm yet to be convinced that philosophy has any worthwhile ideas that require "dedicated effort" to understand.


Philosophy as a whole? Certainly has many worthwhile ideas, or even just explications/clarifications of concepts. Certain philosophers, however? Yeah, not clear that there's really something worthwhile behind all the gobbledigook.


Such as? The stuff that actually makes sense (e.g. "I think therefore I am", the veil of ignorance, trolley problems etc.) can all be explained in less than a minute.


Perhaps it is useful to think of philosophical works as a record of the protracted reasoning process it took to arrive at those ideas.

These ideas, which now seem trivial and “explainable in less than a minute” are sometimes the result of distilling out, simplifying, and neatly packaging the ideas contained within an entire life’s work (or in some cases multiple generations of work!)

It is not clear to me that you could have arrived at some of these ideas without having traversed some of the intermediate steps these philosophers did.

It’s only with the benefit of hindsight and the fact that these distilled, bite-sized ideas, have deeply permeated the culture in which we live, that they seem simple.




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