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The Pandemic Armchair Philosophy Blog, 05.18.20

May 21, 2020May 18, 2020 by Bill Vitek

How do we live wise and virtuous lives with all of our human frailties laid bare by a pandemic?  Hume, I think, would answer: with others, with humor and kindness, and with constant checks on the assumptions and certainties we hold too tightly and too often in opposition to others, be they viral or human. 

Categories Society, Society featured Tags philosophy, skepticism, wisdom 1 Comment

Democracy, truth, fallibilism, and the tech overlords

January 8, 2019January 6, 2019 by Kurt Cobb

Truth is a very difficult thing to come by. Usually, when humans stumble onto it, they don’t even know they have. America started out as a nation skeptical of royal prerogatives and concentration of power. We’ve morphed into a gullible society easily manipulated by dreams of a techno-utopian future.

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