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“What views do you hold almost irrationally?”

Daniel Gross • Talent

If part of the reason we don’t look more regularly into ourselves is our shame and fear at the unusual nature of what we may find there, then a crucial collective resource in the path to self-knowledge is a redrawn sense of what is normal. Our picture of acceptability is – very often – way out of line with what is actually true and widespread. Many

Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education

of happiness,

Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do

most plausible or defensible—

Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do

Decades after the truce, John Locke—whose philosophy influenced the American founding fathers more than any other—wrote about human nature as if it were an “unknowable x.” He knew that disagreements over religion (Jerusalem) and over reason (Athens) were dangerous, so he declared the question of human nature an unfathomable idea that people would n... See more

“Which of your beliefs are you least rational about?” “What views do you hold almost irrationally?”

Tyler Cowen • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World

To think, to dig into the foundations of our beliefs, is a risk, and perhaps a tragic risk. There are no guarantees that it will make us happy or even give us satisfaction.

Alan Jacobs • How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds

Murdoch believed that one of the core projects that each of us needs to undertake is to “unself”. “The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself… to pierce the veil of selfish consciousness and join the world as it really is.”

For Murdoch, there is no backstage self. As long as we

New Philosopher, Sense of Self, Matthew Beard

real and bogus arguments