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The Intellectual vs. The Social (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Minds Almost Meeting

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Introduction

The problem is the tension between the goals of intellectual activity and the goals of social activity. People who devote their lives to intellectual inquiry are rarely around other people who are interested in it, he says. He thinks we just have a general norm in our society about drawing a line between job and non job time.

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