Is There Free Will?

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I think most, I mean, if you go to a philosophy talk about free will, like, they're not going to say that there's free will, there isn't. They're going to say something much smaller and much more complicated. We say what we feel we can say, right? And at the very least, we believe it at the time. To put something forward is an act of courage, especially when you know people are going to tear it down. So let me defend that as opposed to the helping.

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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