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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
Advice Requests
: "The now-defunct App 'Philosophy Riddles' demonstrated how imperfect 'so-bad-that-they-are-good' questions can be highly inviting discussion starters for people with varying levels of philosophical background knowledge."
3 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Company Banned By LinkedIn For Being Too Good At Getting Jobs"
1 post
#3
Ideas
: "I'm trying to make my own philosophical system. If anyone is interested, here's an overview of it so far."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/philosophy
#1
Philosophy
: "Why anthropocentrism is a violent Philosophy | Humans are not the pinnacle of evolution, but a single, accidental result of nature’s blind, aimless process. Since evolution has no goal and no favourites, humans are necessarily part of nature, not above it."
51 posts
#2
Identity
: "The Principle of Identity"
5 posts
#3
Ethics
: "Narcissistic Truthiness, Pragmatic Narcissism, and the Ethics of Resistance"
5 posts
#4
God
: "[Former top 1% poster] Reasoning through extreme skepticism lands us at a unique argument for the existence of -something like - a God."
5 posts
#5
Meaning
: "The Domestication of Meaning: Predictable Trends in Semantic Evolution"
4 posts
#6
Time
: "Understanding Mindfulness Through Space and Time"
4 posts
#7
Technology
: "Simone Weil: the “essential evil besetting humanity” is our destructive tendency to treat tools (like money, Technology & power) as end goals. We must cultivate an ethic of resistance to such accumulation: human inventions should serve humanity, not the other way round."
4 posts
#8
Existence
: "Doubting the Existence of the real world turns into an interesting argument for God!"
4 posts
#9
Skepticism
: "[Former top 1% poster] Extreme Skepticism about the existence of an external world is an (unexpected) argument for the existence of God. Best not to think about it too much, though ..."
4 posts
#10
World
: "To survive in the Anthropocene, we must harness our inner hunter-gatherer. | Instead of trying to rise above our evolutionary instincts, we should deliberately redirect them to build a global ethic fit for a fragile, interconnected World."
4 posts
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