I don't believe that if you haven't had the experience of parenting yourself, that means you're necessarily missing something. But I do think that philosophy has, like, there are many aspects of the human experience that are under-fearized by philosophers. And this is, in part, a theory of how so many things in our life are more like parenting than we realize.
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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