The author says his book is an integrated account of much more than just aspiration. "If you have a good theory of aspiration, consumption is aspirational," he writes in the book. The idea of saying anything at all suggests that you're giving advice to infertile couples and it's hard to come out with one good thing to say about those who can't get pregnant.
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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