Is Being Smart Worth the Depression? - Alex O’Connor & Joe Folley - #1012

Was philosophy always meant to be practically applicable, or is that some modern reinterpretation? Oh, that's a Joe question. Oh, well, I mean, I suppose one of the uh differences between, like very broadly speaking, between something like ancient Greek philosophy, say, and the way that we conceive of philosophy today is that You know, philosophy today is largely thought of in terms of different fields. You've got your kind of epistemologists who discuss questions like, you know, what is knowledge and, you know, more importantly, how do we how do we attain knowledge?

Um, what are the kinds of systems and processes that produce reliable knowledge, that kind of stuff. And then there are kind of ethicists talking about, you know, what is the good life? You know, a vitally important question. Also, you know, what are what are the right things to do? And then you've got kind of logicians talking about, um

You do do a lot of proofs and try to often model uh ordinary things using formal s mathematical or at least semi-mathematical systems. You've got philosophers of language, philosophers of science, but um certainly uh for in the ancient world, these weren't as differentiated certainly as they are today. And so um, you know, Aristotle wrote different treatises on these different topics, but um even in his philosophy, everything is so interlinked. And if you go, you know, back before Aristotle, it's very, very hard to separate these.

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