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r/philosophy is a subreddit with 18.5M members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is massive in size, and has crazy activity.
/r/philosophy: the portal for public philosophy
Popular Themes in r/philosophy
#1
Pain & Anger
: "Don’t despair about being a pessimist. Pessimists can change the world too. | Despite the bleakness of human existence, we can find a modest, virtuous, and tranquil life within the limits of what we cannot change."
2 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Company Banned By LinkedIn For Being Too Good At Getting Jobs"
1 post
#3
Advice Requests
: "Man has robbed a bank, he donates it to a poor orphanage. You know who committed the crime. If you go to the authorities there's a good chance the money will be returned. What would you do?"
1 post
#4
News
: "Iran and Israel | Secrets of 2025 | Global confusion | I thought I should put out my opinion."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/philosophy
#1
Philosophy
: "Why This Knight Played Chess With Death – Bergman’s Philosophy of Life"
15 posts
#2
Life
: "Why This Knight Played Chess With Death – Bergman’s Philosophy of Life"
3 posts
#3
Consciousness
: "Blame Descartes for our warped view of Consciousness. By putting thought above feeling, we’ve erased the body’s central role in shaping the mind. | Antonio Damasio"
3 posts
#4
Technology
: "Our crisis of work and Technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being"
3 posts
#5
Morality
: "Calling Things 'Problematic' Is Intellectually And Morally Lazy - 3 Quarks Daily"
3 posts
#6
Indian Philosophy
: "How classical Indian Philosophy helps us understand the self | Aeon Essays"
3 posts
#7
Existence
: "If I’m questioning my own Existence using logic… and logic is a construct of my mind… then is my Existence proving logic, or is logic faking my Existence?"
2 posts
#8
Nature
: "Las Vegas and the Sleep of Spirit - what Hegel's Nature-spirit distinction can tell us about machine gambling and "human engineering" in general"
2 posts
#9
History
: "Francis Fukuyama on History and Political Philosophy"
2 posts
#10
Ethics
: "Suffering is bad: experiential understanding and the impossibility of intrinsically valuing suffering"
2 posts
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