Thank you, Daniele Grosso, for such a heavy question. The answer to this question partly depends on what we mean by “meaning” and whether the pursuit of meaning is a morally permissible motivation to have a child. Perhaps we mean something like “life satisfaction”, which is (roughly) an overall evaluation of the quality of our […]
Is it moral to have a child to give meaning to your life? Read More
Thanks to Mojahid Gauraki for the question. This is an interesting question, because while on the surface it seems to be about a single individual and whether they are ‘smart’, it is in fact about what it means for someone to be smart or stupid, and the different ways either might be recognised, or even
Is Jordan Peterson a ‘stupid person’s smart person’? Read More
Thank you, Alex Impey, for such an alien question! There are of course no straight philosophical answers to big questions. Everything is a matter of first uncovering the unconscious or implicit premises of the question, and then making further qualifications about what is being asked in order to sketch out the possibilities. This interesting question
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