Thomas Nagel

What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy2

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  • b5596627683has quoted2 years ago
    The most radical conclusion to draw from this would be that your mind is the only thing that exists. This view is called solipsism.
  • b5596627683has quoted2 years ago
    The main concern of philosophy is to question and understand very common ideas that all of us use every day without thinking about them. A historian may ask what happened at some time in the past, but a philosopher will ask, "What is time?" A mathematician may investigate the relations among numbers, but a philosopher will ask, "What is a number?"
  • b5596627683has quoted2 years ago
    In fact most of the time you don't even think about the mental states that make you aware of those things: you seem to be aware of them directly. But how do you know they really exist?
  • b5596627683has quoted2 years ago
    Knowledge of minds other than our own
    The relation between mind and brain
    How language is possible
    Whether we have free will
    The basis of morality
    What inequalities are unjust
    The nature of death
    The meaning of life
  • b5596627683has quoted2 years ago
    There may or may not be an external world, and if there is it may or may not be completely different from how it seems to you -- there's no way for you to tell. This view is called skepticism about the external world.
  • b5596627683has quoted2 years ago
    Would things seem any different to you if in fact all these things existed only in your mind -- if everything you took to be the real world outside was just a giant dream or hallucination, from which you will never wake up?
  • Yuliya Grishchenkohas quoted4 years ago
    Is your mind something different from your brain, though connected to it, or is it your brain?
  • Yuliya Grishchenkohas quoted4 years ago
    what can you really know about the conscious life in this world beyond the fact that you yourself have a conscious mind?
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