"Do we accept our servitude, recognizing that all attempts to overcome it end in futility, or seek to abolish it in an act of self-erasure?"

"A philosophical argument can draw on a set of culturally specific ideas while also aiming at cross-cultural or universal insights."

"Can an idea be ours without just being owned? Can the author survive the end of authorial authority?"

"What makes someone especially good at philosophy, argues Midgley, is a kind of perceptiveness, a power to distinguish what really matters."

"By questioning the default story form, we question the default views on what kinds of lives we’ve been trained to find satisfying."

"Academic philosophers are increasingly trained to see themselves as valuable only insofar as they can produce knowledge."

"The admiration that effortlessness invokes comes from a skill that lies beyond skill, which is achieved through mental emptiness."

"Our unfreedom under capitalism stems from how the purpose of our economy, of our life-sustaining activities, is already decided."

"I do think panpsychism is a picture of the world that is better than most for our mental and spiritual health!"

"One of the greatest challenges of the Critique of Pure Reason is that it asks us to rethink what we mean by ‘objectivity’."

"There are many nonideal scenarios that can negatively impact upon one’s capacity for rational deliberation."

"The abolitionist is calling for such a radical reform of society that we actually don’t know how humans will behave in that new future."