Agnes Kallard: What are your aspirations? That is, to what do I aspire? Yes. At the moment, I would say I have three areas of aspiration that I'm working on right now. She says she struggles a lot with her belief in God and his relation to religious texts. The author's new book is aspiration, the agency of becoming.
Is a written dialogue the best way to learn from philosopher Agnes Callard?
If so, what does that say about philosophy? Is Plato’s Symposium about love or mere intoxication? If good people lived forever, would they be less bored than the bad people? Should we fear death? Is parenting undertheorized? Must philosophy rely on refutation? Should we read the classics? Is Jordan Peterson’s moralizing good? Should we take Socrates at his word? Is Hamlet a Cartesian? Are we all either Beethoven or Mozart people? How do we get ourselves to care about things we don’t yet care about? To what should we aspire to?
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