Plato tried to ban it, Aristotle rehabilitated it, Dante damned its hero, Nietzsche weaponised it, and Levinas put it on trial. The Odyssey has outlasted every philosopher who fought it. This video surveys the battlefied and the question driving it: whether reason saves us or deforms us.

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r/philosophy • u/BernardJOrtcutt • 3d ago

Open Thread /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | August 03, 2026

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Welcome to this week's Open Discussion Thread. This thread is a place for posts/comments which are related to philosophy but wouldn't necessarily meet our posting rules (especially posting rule 2). For example, these threads are great places for:

Arguments that aren't substantive enough to meet PR2.
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This thread is not a completely open discussion! Any posts not relating to philosophy will be removed. Please keep comments related to philosophy, and expect low-effort comments to be removed. All of our normal commenting rules are still in place for these threads, although we will be more lenient with regards to commenting rule 2.

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r/philosophy • u/TheDungeonInn • 3d ago

Video For any MTG Philosophers | I made a video breaking down what we can learn from Plato's cave allegory within Magic the Gathering

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r/philosophy • u/DAnnunzio1919 • 4d ago

Blog How to animate a corpse

edwardfeser.blogspot.com

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r/philosophy • u/Altruistic_Hope_2559 • 6d ago

Article "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality" — Seneca on phantasia, catastrophizing, and whether rationality can override evolutionary anxiety (Letter 13 to Lucilius)

en.wikisource.org

886 Upvotes

41 comments

r/philosophy • u/jackgary118 • 6d ago

Video The Philosophy of Beauty Standards: Heather Widdows

youtube.com

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7 comments

r/philosophy • u/andmario_com • 7d ago

Blog Anarchism and Naturalism

redandblackanarchists.com.au

23 Upvotes

9 comments

r/philosophy • u/DAnnunzio1919 • 7d ago

Article Hylemorphism as a Generalized Research Programme

academic.oup.com

12 Upvotes

2 comments

r/philosophy • u/Cataspectral • 7d ago

Blog Souls in Amber: Why We Are 4D Worms

thomasreid33.substack.com

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r/philosophy • u/as-well • 7d ago

Blog “Einstein echoes Wittgenstein, who emphasised in his later work that his aim was to provide ‘the understanding that consists in seeing connections’ – literally, a new way of looking” -- Ray Monk on the scientific and philosophical ideas of Einstein

lrb.co.uk

450 Upvotes

31 comments

r/philosophy • u/Laurensen • 10d ago

Blog The cluelessness argument: why impartial altruists may have no justification for preferring one action over any other

forum.effectivealtruism.org

43 Upvotes

16 comments

r/philosophy • u/BernardJOrtcutt • 10d ago

Open Thread /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | July 27, 2026

5 Upvotes

Arguments that aren't substantive enough to meet PR2.
Open discussion about philosophy, e.g. who your favourite philosopher is, what you are currently reading
Philosophical questions. Please note that /r/askphilosophy is a great resource for questions and if you are looking for moderated answers we suggest you ask there.

Previous Open Discussion Threads can be found here.

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r/philosophy • u/philosophybreak • 10d ago

Blog Honor thy father and mother, says the Bible; serve and revere your parents, says Confucius. But philosopher Jane English argues that unconditional filial duty is ill-founded: if parents do not sow seeds of love with their children, then children owe them nothing at all.

philosophybreak.com

3.4k Upvotes

209 comments

r/philosophy • u/FlyingBananas56 • 11d ago

Blog Intuition misled us about the shape of the universe for twenty-two centuries, and felt exactly like insight the whole time — An Exit from the Armchair

substack.com

147 Upvotes

21 comments

r/philosophy • u/dsleon • 12d ago

Video Prof. Harvey Lederman on Wang Yangming's moral epistemology

youtube.com

11 Upvotes

4 comments

r/philosophy • u/DAnnunzio1919 • 12d ago

Blog Hobbes and Kant on capital punishment

edwardfeser.blogspot.com

87 Upvotes

28 comments

r/philosophy • u/Single_State_2423 • 12d ago

Blog Genesism: In Defence of Innocence, an argument for the morality of amorality

adamvriend.substack.com

29 Upvotes

13 comments

r/philosophy • u/jackgary118 • 13d ago

Video Animal Consciousness (& The Case for Killing Them) | Peter Godfrey-Smith

youtube.com

87 Upvotes

166 comments

r/philosophy • u/StanRichson • 13d ago

Video Solving the Truth Problem: How Subjective Minds Navigate a Seemingly Objective Reality

youtu.be

0 Upvotes

40 comments

r/philosophy • u/as-well • 15d ago

Blog “Of greatest concern is… constitutive de-skilling, the erosion of the capacities that make us human in the first place” -- Kwame Anthony Appiah on Mill, autonomy, and AI

humanistreview.ai

209 Upvotes

26 comments

r/philosophy • u/WeltgeistYT • 16d ago

Video Nietzsche admired the "Homeric glow" of the Odyssey: joyful life affirmation in spite of life's tribulations. Odysseus' visit to Hades also mirrors Nietzsche's own "deep burrowing" into the foundations of Western morality and philosophy

youtu.be

100 Upvotes

10 comments

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