Is Hunger the Best Sauce?

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I think that hunger will always make you want to eat, but will hunger is hunger enough to make eating kind of meaningful to you and deserving of your attention? And I think it isn't. Let's say we felt the world had 30 days left, and Asteroid was coming, a supernova, whatever. How would or should we behave then? And are the people who are good? Do they have a better time than the people who were not good? Yes. The more virtue you have, the more difficult the circumstances can be in which you still act and live well. So if you're in relatively easy circumstances, even just being an okay person is enough. But when you start

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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