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Truthfulness in philosophizing
I have come to believe that the two virtues required for anyone to philosophize with me are truthfulness and courage. Often, I have spoken of bravery, so this virtue can be put off to the side in this post in order to consider truthfulness on its own. Truthfulness involves putting a desire to know something about…
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The Good Life and Sustaining Life: Day 1. The Question of the Good Life
The renouncer.– What does the renouncer do? He strives for a higher world, he wants to fly further and higher than all affirmers–he throws away much that would encumber his flight, including some things that are not valueless, not disagreeable to him: he sacrifices it to his desire for the heights. Nietzsche, The Gay Science…
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Utility of academic philosophy
Originally posted on Ask a Philosopher: Joyce asked: Give three examples of how academic philosophy is useful in the contemporary world. Answer by Massimo Pigliucci Let me begin by questioning the question (just like any good philosopher would do!). Why should academic philosophy be useful, and what do we mean by useful anyway? It is…
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The Fall of the Warrior and the the Idea of the Noble
In The Good Life and Sustaining Life: An Inquiry into Our Great Vexation (in progress), I write, I have included the figure of the warrior in the schema but not without some reservations since I am not at all sure whether the heroic life is possible in modernity. Many societies have held the aristocrat-warrior in…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 
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