A while back, I posted a list of philosophical truths as a note on my Facebook account. I will re-iterate them below for the sake of having them on my blog. You can also find some of them listed as “Actual Medical Facts of Science“.
- What is justice? Plato didn’t know, therefore it must not exist.
- If knowing the right thing is to do the right thing, then hypocrites are always wrong.
- Exploitation is wrong.
- If a trolley is about to run over 10 people who are tied up and helpless on the tracks, and you can save them by flipping a switch thereby diverting the train to an alternate set of tracks where the trolley will run over an old man trying to cross, walk away slowly and forget the whole thing.
- The world exists in absolutes. Everything that is not 100% truthful and verifiable does not count.
- Logically sound statements are truth-preserving, except for when they aren’t.
- The sum of the interior angles in a triangle always add up to 180 degrees.
Since the first post was so popular (I can dream, can’t I?), I now bring you part two of Philosophical Truths.
- Everything that you do, and everything that happens to you has been predetermined by god, at the beginning of time.
- You have free will.
- Philosophy is like climbing Mount Everest, minus the satisfaction of accomplishment.
- For any proposition, P, there is some professor willing to explain it to you.
- History shows that we are unable to gain knowledge through inductive reasoning.
- A system is complete if and only if it takes a 3 hour lecture to explain.
Like the new ones. Thanks for the link!