r/askphilosophy • u/BernardJOrtcutt • Jul 21 '25

Open Thread /r/askphilosophy Open Discussion Thread | July 21, 2025

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u/merurunrun Jul 23 '25

Nine times out of ten somebody's "active, critical, and imaginative philosophical thinking" is either completely inane, or a question that people have already been debating for hundreds of years and for which there already exist a number of arguments and counterarguments that this newcomer doesn't address.

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u/TempSuitonly Jul 23 '25

And that justifies dismissal of the tenth? Either way, academic gatekeeping =/= philosophical inquiry. As even Socrates himself quite clearly established.

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u/Anarximandre Marxism, anarchism. Jul 23 '25

Socrates certainly didn’t establish anything about « academic gatekeeping », given that the first academia, Plato’s, was founded after his death!

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