Wisdom Builder
Quick Hits
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4 minutes
TST PHILOSOPHY.
Quick Hits
10 random key ideas.
1.
Wisdom grows when we learn to see the world through different lenses, understanding what each reveals while remaining grounded in reality.
2.
From History: Atman, the idea of self.
Self is the idea that there is a deeper “true self” beneath the mind. Non-self is the idea that whatever the self is, it is not a fixed thing.
3.
A wise mind recognizes that moral agency depends on cognitive ability, not species. AI can be a moral agent if it possesses complex moral cognition.
5.
Human brain size increased rapidly over the last million years, and growing communication demands may have been a major evolutionary driver.
6.
Academic paper summary:
Ethics is fundamentally relational: human flourishing is not merely individual achievement, but a shared moral condition grounded in the recognition of other persons as agents.
7.
Column summary:
TST Philosophy has two doors. Start with one goal of flourishing and explore the two layers of reality using 3 hammers, 4 traps, and 5 tools. Or, dive into criticle thinking by starting with the Five Thought Tools.
8.
Article summary:
Your flourishing is tied to the flourishing of others. Living well means treating others as agents with lives, needs, and struggles as real as your own.
9.
TST Ethics differs by aiming at layered flourishing rather than happiness alone. Moral constraints integrate intent, virtue, preservation, and harm.
10.
Science can test what supports flourishing for all, but it cannot by itself prove that it ought to be our goal. Philosophy states the value; science tests it.
Done. Refresh for another set.