Ryan Schmidt

M.A. Philosophy | Host of Toward Eudaimonia podcast | Actively trying to figure out how to live well. Could probably use your help here.

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Episode 3 of Toward Eudaimonia is out!

We've spent two episodes with Socrates. Now we turn to Aristotle.

In Book I of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle asks a question that remains as relevant as ever:

What does it mean to live well?

Give it a listen, and let me know what you think!

https://t.co/CPg9d1eTKf

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@AnselmDescartes Deductively valid argument? Yes. Begging the question? Also, yes.

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@_danielle_carr Nothing illustrates the decentering of the subject quite like discovering that your agency belongs to a little French rat.

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What do you love about philosophy?

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@katherineveritt I too want grad students to take their pursuit of philosophy as seriously as Diogenes did.

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@Lara_0xo This is absolutely true, gang.

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Pigeons are tetrachromatic, can see ultraviolet light, and have tiny colored oil droplets in their eyes that fine-tune their color perception.

I’m fairly certain that they can see into the noumenal realm.

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Keep me searching for a heart of gold.

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@Reuters Y’all ever look at something and just think, “Huh, so I guess reality isn’t real”?

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One day, I plan on dropping a banger of a philosophy joke on here. However, my follower count isn’t large enough for the audience this deserves. Give it time, peak philosophical comedy will be unleashed here one day.

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@tautologer John Searle’s Chinese Room but the dude inside the room is pissed we keep handing him random symbols to deal with.

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I’m speaking about you, @SenecaQuote you bot bastard. My stoic intuitions have been fooled rather easily in this instance. Epictetus would feel shame for me if he hadn’t mastered the dichotomy of control.

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@EpictetusSays Epictetus really laying down some wisdom with this one (reading quotes out of context and picturing that’s all there is to them gives me the hahaha).

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@philvischer @TylerHuckabee The subtext here is that daddy wasn’t there.

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@philvischer @TylerHuckabee He has to be a father figure. Otherwise, I would start to think that he actually loves me.

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@WordsnWisdom26 This is exactly why I am surrounded by friends.

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@DearS_o_n Enter the Dragon is such a sick movie. This post is gonna put me into a Bruce Lee movie rabbit hole for the next week. And, honestly, I’m stoked for it.

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@DearS_o_n You have taken a sacred Bruce Lee scene and made it basic as all hell… Why?

“Don't think! Feel. It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”

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@No5mallf3at i can agree that sometimes the idea of woke can invoke (sick rhyme) absurdities. Surely, bringing to the forefront of public consciousness the struggles of minority groups is a positive. At least insofar as it gives fire to the conversation of how to make society more just.

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@DrScotMSullivan This quote requires far more unpacking than I’m ready for when doomscrolling through X. You’ve left a trap that I’ve had to sit with for at least the past five minutes and I’m still not sure I’m making any progress here.

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@TotalPhilo Sometimes, I think I get why they decided to make him drink the hemlock. Imagine trying to just have a normal day with Socrates around.