📚 ref - what is a philosopher?

We need a cultural and philosophical wake-up call to meet this moment. What we need is something to hold onto — culturally, philosophically.

Feelosophy

Mill is trying to figure out what he believes is true, and what he can stand for, and how to live. But the way he does it is, at first glance, the opposite of feeling: he is constructing a system of thought, a philosophy. He is hunting down the contradictions in his intuitions and his thoughts; he insists on finding ways of thinking that allow him

Q: What is the last thing that makes us human?

A: We feel. We just feel things, and our job in this world is to feel. The fact that we have a body, and that body has sensations, means something. We’ve reduced ourselves and our minds to intelligence, but that is a disservice to our full humanity.

Paraphrased from Not Boring Radio (Hyperlegible 011):