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Massimo Pigliucci on Why Virtue Matters
The Daily Stoic
The Only Purpose of Studying Philosophy Is to Make You a Better Human Being
The purpose of studying this thing is to come up with rules and insight for the conduct of human affairs, not to dazzle with how brilliant your mind is. That's not riddles or tractable questions. I think you get the same argument about history and biography in any subject,. maybe not mathematics or whatever. But right now, and certainly for the last 50 years or at least, don't go into philosophy department because that's you wasting your time.
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