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gardsy26 t1_j5fxzd6 wrote
Reply to comment by chrispd01 in Professor Martha C. Nussbaum on Vulnerability, Politics, and Moral Worth with Sam Harris by palsh7
You should find out for yourself! He has written many books and has a very influential podcast (my opinion). Here's the wiki:
Samuel Harris is an American philosopher, neuroscientist, author, and podcast host. His work touches on a range of topics, including rationality, religion, ethics, free will, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics, philosophy of mind, politics, terrorism, and artificial intelligence. Harris came to prominence for his criticism of religion, and Islam in particular, and is known as one of the "Four Horsemen" of New Atheism, along with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett.
Although after a recent interview which resulted in memes and click-bait headlines taking things out of context, he is now the whipping boy of the right. On the other hand he equally (if not more) criticizes the left, resulting him to be targeted by people who align there also. He's an easy target for online trolls and those who want to earn internet points fairly easily without critical thought.
gardsy26 t1_j5fvgjk wrote
Reply to comment by hammersickle0217 in Professor Martha C. Nussbaum on Vulnerability, Politics, and Moral Worth with Sam Harris by palsh7
DM the criticism so I can understand.
hammersickle0217 t1_j5fv81z wrote
Reply to comment by gardsy26 in Professor Martha C. Nussbaum on Vulnerability, Politics, and Moral Worth with Sam Harris by palsh7
Tried that. It gets deleted.
gardsy26 t1_j5fusu3 wrote
Reply to comment by hammersickle0217 in Professor Martha C. Nussbaum on Vulnerability, Politics, and Moral Worth with Sam Harris by palsh7
Please. It's because no one can provide a coherent credible criticism of him
Why is he intellectually dishonest?
jlaw54 t1_j5fokbu wrote
Reply to comment by WrongAspects in Physicist Max Planck on Idealism and the Role of Faith in Science by owlthatissuperb
You missed the essence of my point imho. But we are all entitled to our own opinion. I never even used the word gods btw.
hammersickle0217 t1_j5fncza wrote
Reply to comment by chrispd01 in Professor Martha C. Nussbaum on Vulnerability, Politics, and Moral Worth with Sam Harris by palsh7
We aren’t allowed to talk about it. See all the deleted comments? The short version is that he has paper degrees and is intellectually dishonest. Very little critical thinking.
BernardJOrtcutt t1_j5fn42p wrote
Reply to Look on the dark side | We must keep the flame of pessimism burning: it is a virtue for our deeply troubled times, when crude optimism is a vice by ADefiniteDescription
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Reply to Anna Alexandrova, a philosopher of science at Cambridge, argues that a “science of happiness” is possible but requires a new approach. Measures such as “life satisfaction” or “positive emotions” can be studied rigorously. An underlying variable of “happiness” cannot. by Ma3Ke4Li3
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Reply to Nietzsche is better understood as the Father of Psychoanalysis than Existentialism; his philosophy has two components: the diagnosis of our culture's Decadence (under the Ascetic Ideal) and a prescription for health in the Dionysian Counter-Ideal by thelivingphilosophy
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SnooLemons2442 t1_j5g3dio wrote
Reply to comment by Accomplished-Log-274 in /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | January 16, 2023 by BernardJOrtcutt
>And the idea of “me” is an illusion that the prenatal “I” attaches to over time
How have you come to that conclusion? It doesn't seem entirely clear the self is experienced as an illusion.
>What can “i” do, if there is no “i”.
Are you trying to deny your own existence here? All the pronoun 'I' refers to is the human being that you are, so unless you're denying you're a human being I'm not sure what the problem is.