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On some of the most fundamental questions (e.g. "What is of value?" and "What does it mean to live a good life?") many of the credible answers, were probably fi
by retrac 4y ago
On some of the most fundamental questions (e.g. "What is of value?" and "What does it mean to live a good life?") many of the credible answers, were probably first posited, before history even started being written. Consider the Confucians, Mohists and Taoists of China. Or the Epicurians and the Stoics of Western antiquity. They all had attempts to answer such questions. Some of which would sound very similar to what you might hear people say today and some of which would sound very alien. We are still having many of the same debates they did.
- yamtaddle 4y ago> We are still having many of the same debates they did. You can wander into almost any HN politics thread and find at least one alarmingly-confident and probably-acrimonious post that can act as a prompt to let you walk someone through Plato's dialog on justice from the first few pages of The Republic. They'll have no idea what you're doing. I'm pretty sure most of them are adults, not kids.